I have no idea why she’s chosen to sleep on the cedar chest instead of the bed, but she seems to be happy, so whatever blows your trumpet:
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zhena gogolia
Sweetheart!
Baud
I just received one of those DNC emails from Tom Perez asking for my input and it did not contain a donation request.
Good work, Tom.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Hmmm — I just got one, and since you said that, I put in a comment, and then it asked me to donate.
Baud
@zhena gogolia: I don’t click.
At least the email itself didn’t contain the request. Baby steps.
AdamK
Lily is perfect.
Yarrow
Lily! She’s my favorite. So sweet.
debbie
Her own personal cave.
WereBear
Everything is new and must be tested.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: shucks, wish I hadn’t automatically deleted it
also, I can’t tell Perez he needs to figure out how to make climate change a winning issue when I can’t begin to figure out how. I just got off the phone with a friend in Chicago who said in passing that the weather’s terrible and he wishes it would get back to the sixties like it was last week. In fucking February. In Chicago.
It was also in the sixties in Antarctica last week, which made me think LOL nothing matters
scav
Familiar shirt and comfy + cosy: clever girl.
Spanky
Oddly, I’m reading BJ while this plays.
Keith P.
My guess is that it’s the denim. My cat almost always picks a new place to sleep every couple of weeks, UNLESS I have a pile of unwashed clothes somewhere, in which case, she’s sleeping on that. My dog was the same way…I think it gives them comfort, like sleeping next to a ticking clock.
sigaba
I’m LOL’ing
For the pendants, I doubt Trump went “ballistic,” if only because things that go ballistic will tend to act in predictable ways according to established physical laws.
@Keith P.:
I have observed this phenomena as well. The Lucy-dog will take the bed, unless there is laundry on the floor.
Just One More Canuck
I have no idea why she’s chosen to sleep on the cedar chest instead of the bed
Because she can
Brachiator
What a sweetie.
ArchTeryx
It could be the denim, the pillows, or the cedar itself. Dog noses are extremely sensitive and all those things will smell of home, plus feel nice to sleep on. Then, a lot of times, animal decision making is extremely simple: “Oh, I’m here, this feels nice, *flop*”. Though both dogs and cats, once they get in the habit of doing something, tend to keep doing it, even if they aren’t aware of why. So do we, for that matter!
TL;DR: Animals don’t think it through. They just roll with it. :-)
Wag
I’ve been having the Paul Simon song Boy in the Bubble running through my head for the past few days, and suddenly it came to me. The Trump administration is a nicely and succinctly described as a LAOMABABA.
A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and babies.
Juju
@Baud: Really? I ignored mine because I figured it was just for fundraising. I may have to go and pull it out of trash and see what’s up.
Juju
And I need to find a dog. I miss having a dog or two. Lily is so cute. Can I borrow her for a week or two?
Iowa Old Lady
Not work safe. Trump song take off on the YMCA. Made me laugh.
rikyrah
Awe…How sweet
zhena gogolia
@Iowa Old Lady:
That’s great. I’ve been kind of addicted to Tim Heidecker’s Trump song, but I’m not going to link it for fear Adam brings the hammer down on me. It’s not at all polite. But it is addictive.
Neldob
Sweet little Zen burger.
Shell
Lily doesn’t want to worry about moths.
p.a.
Is the anonymous shyter investigation still ongoing, or did I miss the announcement of a culprit?
LAO
Lily is too cute! my poor girl had a rough morning ?
Major Major Major Major
Aw how precious.
We got the new Zelda!
raven
@LAO: Poor baby!
LAO
@raven: She’s currently snoring away under the couch ignoring me. I want to be offended but frankly, it’s been very peaceful. ?
wmd
@scav: I thought those were overalls. But yeah it has that L’eau du Cole scent.
jeffreyw
Thread needz moar kitteh!
JGabriel
I’m pretty damn far from being a fan of Sally Quinn, and this quote is obliviously obvious projection on her part. But it’s also both true and a pretty sick burn of Trump:
Donald Trump, head-waiter wanna-be. That it’s a casual aside in an otherwise annoyingly smug article about selling Grey Gardens is even better. Kudos, Ms. Quinn.
schrodingers_cat
@jeffreyw: Bitsy has a cute.
schrodingers_cat
@wmd: Appropriate outfit to go with the hillbilly from WV, image.
Major Major Major Major
@wmd: unless he has a shirt with straps…
Yarrow
@LAO: Awww….poor thing. Looks so pitiful.
ET
She is so cute in that photo that if I passed I would, despite the fact it would disturb her, give in to the desire to cuddle.
Mike J
Emphasis added.
Skepticat
@Juju: I foster Royal Bahamian potcake puppies, and we deliver pretty much anywhere in North America. http://www.potcake.org/
Yarrow
@Mike J:
What in the world?
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: that’s fucking bizarre.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike J: Reminds me, in an oblique way, of Pentagon workers being told during a snow emergency that “mission essential personnel only” were required to report in.
Which meant that they had a lot of people reporting in because they didn’t want to be considered “non-mission essential”.
ruemara
I am alternately dozing a bit on Percoset, struggling with the uncomfortable feeling of fullness eating & drinking causes me and consuming needed healing calories with a hot chocolate. I was about to try recording a mini-episode of my podcast, but I’m a bit tired. How do those surgery addicted ladies keep coming back? The resident cat squad has been very helpful. Walking on my face and abdomen, bashing open the bedroom door at night and releasing the heat, then nosing through my suitcase and removing interesting stuff.
Like a producer.
Major Major Major Major
@Villago Delenda Est: yeah, I’m wondering if it wasn’t a day off or furlough day to begin with.
Elizabelle
Lily would look good in a jeans jacket.
@LAO: Maggie sighting!
@JGabriel: Yeah, I saw that maitre d’ comment — slap! All he needs is the vest.
JGabriel
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Tell your friend a New Yorker who was here for Hurricane Sandy says, “Oh, sure, global warming is all fun and games until Greenland melts and you’re swimming up Broadway.”
Pogonip
@LAO: Oh, your dog’s the one with the bad pad! Is it healing up?
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
I would flop on top of Lilly and scritch her ears until the day I die, but most dogs aren’t into the whole flop on top thing. (Iggy is. I’m a lucky human.)
Pogonip
@Villago Delenda Est: That’s not how it works. You will be told when you’re hired whether your position is “essential” or “non-essential.” If it’s re-classified from one to the other, you’ll be told that too, and, as always with DOD, you’ll be given a form explaining same:
NotMax
@ArchTeryx
Reminded of a supposedly true (if not, it ought to be) anecdote about The Ed Sullivan Show.
Final act of the evening was to be a group of trained chimpanzees. Frantic stage manager rushes up to the animal trainer.
Stage Manager: Look, we’re running behind; instead of the original 8 minutes for your act you’re only going to have 5, so you’ll have to cut out whatever you can.
Trainer: They’re chimps. They don’t edit!
Solution was to have the chimps begin the performance at the originally allotted time, only behind a closed curtain. When the act was introduced and the curtain opened, they were already nearly halfway through their routine.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle:
Dolt 45 has vests, the BEST vests.
Pogonip
@NotMax: *chortle*. “Hey, guys, Ed Sullivan just told me we have to adjust the act. Now don’t go bananas…”
LAO
@Pogonip: that healed fine. This is a new injury. For a pit bull/beagle/indeterminate hound, she is a fragile flower. J/K, she’s tough as nails but walking and running on pavement every day, is tough on her pads.
LAO
@Yarrow: She works that angle very well.
Jeffro
Boy Ben Sasse sure just boxed Trumpov in, Holy cow
Elizabelle
@NotMax:
My favorite phrase of the day.
JPL
@Jeffro: Tell us more!
Tripod
@sigaba:
He whacked Priebus and Bannon from the flight?
Uh-oh, Spaghetti-O.
Ithink
@Major Major Major Major: How is it & the new Nintendo home system? They both look amazing though all my local Game Stops said they won’t be available for the next month or so ore-orders & wait list popular demand is such a fever pitch! I need anything at all to take my kind & attention off the neverendingly”Nero Fiddling Over a Burning Rome” nonsense.
sigaba
@JPL:
Trump, of course, will just try to walk away from all of this, like the voter fraud bullshit. We’ll see how hard Sasse pushes, for what he’s asking he’d need McConnell’s support. I see nothing in this statement that would be repugnant to any Democrat, but some Republicans might rather the whole thing just go away. The FBI’s FISA application for Trump Tower, notwithstanding it’s part of an ongoing criminal investigation, is one hell of a rock to look under.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Jeffro:That was pretty cool.
Link
OT – in answer to your question, it was your idea for an “it’s a crime for a D but fine for an R” comparison minibook. Your exact description of which I can no longer find, of course, but I’m collecting the comps.
JPL
@sigaba: Tax cuts for the one percent.
Yarrow
@LAO: I can tell! She looks like she’s got plenty of experience with the pitiful look. I love her waterproof rain jacket. Too cute.
Yarrow
@Jeffro: I just saw that. Wow.
sigaba
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: I note on ZeroHedge and a few other RW sites that are covering this, the comments are positively giddy that this is the first nail in Obama’s coffin and now all the ugly evidence of Obama’s corruption and illegality will come out.
Trump’s supporters are begging for Sasse’s trap to spring.
Yarrow
Oh, the precious flower.
And he’s been so out front in demanding privacy for those exposed by DNC hacks. And others. Uh huh.
trollhattan
@Yarrow:
I’m going to drive straight to her email address and picket out front.
randy khan
@sigaba:
I appreciate the pedantry on “ballistic,” although I always have thought that this particular usage came from the notion of a missile in flight but no longer under control.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Yarrow: Wait, email addys are private?
Pogonip
@LAO: What did she do this time?
And have you considered re-naming her “Cole”?
randy khan
@Yarrow:
The irony is pretty amusing, but if the AP really did publish her email address, that was a mistake.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@LAO: She’s such a fashionista, with vetwrap that matches her coat. Maggie is a star. Or as I described a pibble/beagle cross to Mr. Q: a noisy, opinionated, stubborn cuddlebug. The first 3 being the beagle heritage, of course.
Yarrow
@randy khan: I agree. It was wrong if they did it. (Note: I haven’t read the AP article–just saw the tweet. And it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s wrong.) But he’s on record laughing as others’ contact gotten from hacking was made public. If he’d that was wrong I’d have a bit more sympathy now. Also, revealing an email address isn’t the same as even a phone number, let along a home address or Social Security number–all of which other people have been subjected to. And never a peep from Pence.
@trollhattan: Yeah, that’s what I thought. It’s still a mistake and wrong, but not really doxing.
JMG
@sigaba: Only takes three Republican Senators to go to McConnell and say,”investigate this now or Obamacare repeal (or tax cuts, or Judge Gorsuch, etc.) is dead.” They may not have the guts to do it, but it’s well within their power.
LAO
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: I hate to admit, not vet wrap. A baby sock taped on with masking tape. I’m the worst dog mom!
@Pogonip: too much fun in paved dog park. Didn’t limp till next morning or I’d have pulled her.
Pogonip
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Beagles do cling firmly to their opinion–“I love food!”
I think the reason biggles are considered hard to train is not so much that they’re stubborn is that they’re so cute, particularly as puppies, that it’s very difficult to muster the appropriate teacherly sternness when they err. In any case they were never intended to be pets. Put one out in the field with rabbits and he’ll need very little training. It’s housedogly things like “Sit,” “Stay,” “Heel,” that they have a problem with.
Yarrow
@JMG: The Republicans in Congress have the power to do any and all of that kind of thing, including getting rid of Trump. That they won’t call for even an independent investigation speaks volumes. The noose will continue to tighten as the IC works to make them do the right thing. And no matter how much Trump clamps down on the US IC, there is nothing he can do to control the intelligence services of our allies. They can leak to our press and their press all they want.
The longer the Republicans in Congress drag their feet the worse it will be for them. They seem to think they can walk the knife edge and skate. It will not work out that way.
Another Scott
@Major Major Major Major: The Politico says “some” employees will be asked to work from home. It doesn’t say why. It introduces more questions than it answers.
It may have something to do with the computer problems they had recently – who knows.
Cheers,
Scott.
Brachiator
@sigaba:
Yeah, he “went ballistic.”
The image is redolent of Cold War fears, where the US and the Soviet Union would go nuts, launch their ballistic missiles and be unable to stop global destruction.
So, I guess it’s the phrase “go ballistic,” not just the word “ballistic.”
Major Major Major Major
@Ithink: We got it for the Wii U we already have, played for about an hour and so far it’s great!
Pogonip
@LAO: Is it the same foot? If so, it might not be as healed as you thought.
Redshift
@sigaba: Per the NYT:
“Highly unusual” is the Grey Lady’s understated way of saying “highly inappropriate and probably illegal,” imho.
Barbara
@JMG: This has been my thought. It’s not as if three or four Republicans couldn’t deny McConnell and Ryan anything they want — Supreme Court, tax cuts, etc. They just have to refuse to sign on to anything and everything until tax returns and Russian influence/hacking/collusion are being handled by an independent investigator.
sigaba
@Redshift: I suppose Sessions will have to un-recuse himself in order to lay his hands on it.
Redshift
I was at the campaign office opening today for Karrie Delaney, our candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates in the most pro-Hillary district currently held by a Republican. Good crowd, good candidate. Taking in an incumbent is always tough, but I like our chances!
Suzanne
@Mike J: What could be the reasoning behind telling them to work from home? Fear of violence?
cosima
@Yarrow: Would this be the hacked email address? Why else would it have been used? Which means someone (him or wife) is still using the same email address after being hacked? Do people usually do that? If mine had been hacked I’d get myself a new one.
Major Major Major Major
@cosima: hacking an address just means getting the credentials, which can be reset. No need to make everybody update their address books.
LAO
@Pogonip: different paw. And she’s too cute to name after Cole. ?
Another Scott
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I distinctly remember at least one instance of some of the hacked “Clinton” e-mails being shown on MSNBC (Rachel’s show?) showing someone’s gmail address in the header. I think it took them a day or two before they started blacking those out of the images.
Yeah, it’s annoying, but it happens. Pence bringing the Streisand Effect to bear on it shows that he’s not too bright (if he’s actually worried about her e-mail address getting out there), or he just is throwing crap against the wall to hope that he and she can play the victim and people will get distracted from the real issue. Or both/and, again. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
cosima
@Major Major Major Major: I did not know that. Hopefully I will not have to use that knowledge in the future.
waysel
@Suzanne: Rifling through peoples desks, looking for leakers and Obamas left behind secrets packets?
Suzanne
@waysel: If so, I hope people have been wise about keeping their desks clear. I’m sure all the Obama-era employees are paranoid AF.
sharl
@Yarrow: Aw man, this will be catnip for leftie Weird Twitter. They’ll dust off one of their favorite images (if they haven’t started already).
Pogonip
@cosima: Hi Cosima, did your daughter start training yet?
Joe Falco
@?BillinGlendaleCA: They’re made from real gorilla chest.
Juju
@Skepticat: They are adorable. I’m looking for an older girl dog who would be suitable to live around an 84 year old woman. I would be the main caretaker of the dog, and I am quite a bit younger. It is certainly something to consider. Thank you for the suggestion. I’ve bookmarked the website. I’ve been approved for other rescue organizations and am looking for the right mature girl dog.