I forgot to post this yesterday, which was the six-month anniversary of Ric and Zooey coming to live with me. The shelter said they were about two and a half years old then, so I also declared August 2 as their birthday. Three years old. I think they’ve decided to stay.
JPL
They are lovely.
Mel
Such lovely kitties!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
KITTEHS!
twitter tells me Kelly is on every phone call with Trump, and directs the comings and goings into the Oval. LOL. He’s got a nanny.
Msb
Congratulations to you all!
Major Major Major Major
Oh well aren’t those some peaceful cats. Samwise likes hanging out on the mail too.
So folks here have been curious what the relationship between party identification and partisan approval ratings is. It’s a very slow day at work so I looked into it. Graphs here (code for those curious here).
SiubhanDuinne
Beautiful kittehs. But I think you should declare today, August 3, their birthday. That way, they can share with me (I’m 75 today), and Omnes Omnibus, and I think possibly even Corner Stone (though I’d have to double-check with Quinerly on that one).
It was meant to be that you “forgot” to post this yesterday.
themann1086
In the spirit of an open thread, look what number popped up in 2 different polls on the same topic!
via Vox, emphasis mine
Mel
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy, happy birthday!!
Hope you have a joyful day!
clay
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: We’ll see how long it lasts. Trump infamously hates being constrained by his advisors.
Miss Bianca
Well, if they are napping on your important papers, *of course* they have decided to stay! : )
@SiubhanDuinne:
Happy birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
To you and O2 too
Happy birthday to you!
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy Birthday..
A judge today ousted the Roswell, GA mayor today for term limit violations. I assume he’ll appeal, but won’t be able to run again. Hopefully, the next mayor won’t give bigoted conversations to the national media.
Miss Bianca
btw, Cheryl…Ric and Zooey? Not Frannie and Zooey? I is disappoint’!
Mary G
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy Birthday, SD!
Mel
@Major Major Major Major: Thanks for the link!
How’s your graphic novel progressing?
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy Day of Revolution to thee!
I can get OO later since I think he’s busy doing lawyer type stuff.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy Birthday! In India, there usually is a grand celebration for the 75th birthday, because it used to be a milestone to reach 75.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mel, @Miss Bianca, @JPL, @Mary G: Thank you all!! (JPL, I’m still remembering with pleasure that delicious cupcake.)
Major Major Major Major
@Mel: Good, thanks! I’ve got four strips waiting for coloration that I hope to get done this weekend. I should be up to 1.5 updates per week soon.
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy birthday!
jacy
Pretty kitties!
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano: Thanks. Yes, I expect we’ll see Omnes on one of the evening threads.
@schrodingers_cat: Did not know that 75 was considered such a significant number in India, although it is something of a milestone! Most people point out it’s three-quarters of a century; I prefer to say that I’m halfway to my sesquicentennial :-)
schrodingers_cat
@Mel: I am not clear about what the graph is showing, what is the y axis?
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne:
Happy Birthday!!!!!!! May all your birthday wishes come true!
p.a.
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy Bday! To 00 t00.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you
Tazj
I bet they’re Democrats, probably union members too, lying around on your job and your papers! Moochers!
Really, they’re such cute kitties. A sweet photo of them together.
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy Birthday!
ruemara
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy Birthday!
Edited to add: Those are some cozy, happy kitties.
gene108
General cat question, as a non-pet owner.
My cousin got a couple of kittens a few months ago. They are about 8 months old now.
I went to visit him a couple of weeks ago. They jump on everything and will claw the furniture, if you are not looking.
Is this normal kitten behavior? Will they out grow this?
My mom found their behavior off-putting, and we have been talking about it off-and-on for the past couple of weeks. I told her they’ll probably outgrow it, but I am not sure.
gene108
@SiubhanDuinne:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! YAY!!!!
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: Approval rating * party ID (or just approval rating for unweighted numbers)
HeleninEire
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, my internet friend, but really I think of you as a real life friend. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I am 45 days from 55. I hope that 20 years from now I am as lively and lovely and vibrant and clever as you are.
I aspire to be you.
ETA for grammar and clarity
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: For my grandfather’s 75th birthday, we had a pooja in the morning and then a party in the evening, invited his cousins (he was an only child of his parents, but had many cousins) and other relatives and friends. A good time was had by all.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy 75th to you, and happy b-day to Omnes. Looks like we’re going to have to send out the Panda Pose after Corner Stone.
SiubhanDuinne
@SFAW:
@p.a.:
Thanks very much! Running out now to do the emissions inspection on my car and then renew registration. In GA, birthday is the renewal date, and if I wait even until tomorrow I’ll get socked with a late fee.
Jeffro
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy birthday SD- hope the year ahead is your best one yet!
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
I WANT A POOJA!!! I don’t know what that is, but I want one!
lollipopguild
Cats Napping
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: You call a priest, making offerings to the gods symbolically, including flowers and food, he chants some stuff in Sanskrit, then you get to eat a fabulous meal.
ETA: Our family priest was pretty cool. He was a principal of one of Mumbai’s more famous schools. He used to moonlight as a priest to keep his family traditions alive. He would answer any questions you might have and was in general a good sport. He was my grandfather’s friend too. He married my grandparents and then my parents too.
germy
@gene108:
Yes. No.
Our cat has a motto: the world is my scratching post. I keep her nails trimmed and provide her with various things to scratch on. (For example, my wife buys fabric for sewing projects. The fabric comes wrapped around thick cardboard. Perfect for scratching.)
I tried spraying vinegar on chairs our cat was scratching, but it didn’t work, other than our living room smelling like a salad.
We need Werebear here for good advice.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Have a classically glorious day.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy birthday, Judith and Omnes!
Since this is an open thread: Did anyone think Deval Patrick was even considering running for 2020 before this week?
Mary G
WSJ says Bobby Three Sticks has enpaneled a grand jury. Twitler’s 4 a.m. meltdown tomorrow should be epic.
schrodingers_cat
@Mary G: Can you translate that from legalese? What does enpaneled mean, what is going to happen now?
Major Major Major Major
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): It was obvious to me that Axelrod had been grooming him to for a long time, but I kinda figured he’d dropped off the radar.
schrodingers_cat
@schrodingers_cat: *the principal not a principal.
Jeffro
J-Rubs: Why The Leaked Presidential Call Transcripts Are So Frightening
Jen, you’re usually pretty on point but that last bolded portion won’t happen. Congress will be forced to impeach well before they’d find the stomach to suddenly start enforcing the rules on Trumpov, as they should have all along)
Mel
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: @clay:
I fear that it has the potential for developing an eerie resemblance to “Mr. Nanny”, featuring Hulk Hogan* and a convoluted attempt at a storyline which involved (if I recall correctly) bratty, ill-behaved rich kids, and microchips with “classified” data being leaked/stolen/lost willy-nilly.
*Official Disclaimer: I only saw it b/c my little nephew begged to go. And it was over 20 years ago. Plus, it had David Johansen in it, although not even he could make it bearable to watch.
That stinker of a movie tainted my burning love for the New York Dolls forever.
different-church-lady
It’s nice to see Trump admit that his base is made up of drug addicts.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Major Major Major Major: I’ve never heard any noises to that effect; this is why I was asking.
Jeffro
Oh, and for filing under “water is wet”: Christians* Are More Than Twice As Likely To Blame a Person’s Poverty On Lack of Effort
*white evangelical Christians, that is. Probably some pretty low-hanging fruit right there, researchers, if you wanna look like a genius for research that supports the obvious…
Count me in with the morally upright atheists every time, please…
different-church-lady
@germy: I hear citrus works well.
Major Major Major Major
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Yeah, when I googled Deval Patrick to see when his governorship ended I was invited to read that article. The author is terrible! And no, Patrick fallen off my radar, but Axelrod had pretty clearly been grooming him to run for a while back in the day.
schrodingers_cat
Have we had a thread to discuss the horrific immigration bill proposed by Cotton and the other senator from Georgia with T’s blessing and with Miller’s stamp on it?
Jeffro
Breaking: Mueller has empaneled a grand jury to look into Russian election interference (WSJ)
Iowa Old Lady
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy birthday! Go you! I assume you’re more lively than the kitties seem to be.
schrodingers_cat
@Iowa Old Lady: My kitteh just bit my toe. Oww.
different-church-lady
@Jeffro:
Whomever is doing the leaking is likely someone Trump hired. So both failures are on him.
Iowa Old Lady
@schrodingers_cat: Did the kitty break the skin? Because I gather cat bites are likely to get infected.
Mike in DC
@Jeffro:
Yes. Indicator that he is in for the long haul, and we may have 18 months or more of Russia stories coming.
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Happy birthday! ? ?
Major Major Major Major
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): @Major Major Major Major: also, the left sure is getting into a preemptive defensive crouch to explain why they’re so vocally opposed to three black people, one of whom hasn’t even been in the news but seems to have been added to the list a la North Korea in the axis of evil speech.
schrodingers_cat
@Iowa Old Lady: Nope, just a warning bite, that I was in his space. He is sleeping at my feet right now. I know about the deadly nature of the bites, I have had two bites that got infected.
dmsilev
The shit hasn’t quite hit the fan yet, but is definitely on an inbound trajectory towards the rotating blades. TPM:
Peale
@schrodingers_cat: NO WE HAVE NOT!
japa21
@Jeffro: IANAL, but that would seem to mean he has what he considers sufficient evidence to move forward.
dmsilev
@different-church-lady: Maybe Trump leaked it himself, so we could all bask in the glory of his dealmaking prowess.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Major Major Major Major: Of course it follows that they’re not fucking God-Senators (Booker in particular has often been rather irksome). But including a Black candidate who I’d literally heard no one treat as a potential 2020 candidate is (at best) malign trolling, and the article’s framing them as “the CENTRIST candidates” is what pushes it to borderline racism.
Mnemosyne
@gene108:
Part of that is kitten exuberance, but your cousin needs lots of scratching posts and/or scratching boxes, stat.
Also a bottle of Feliway to mist on the furniture to discourage the cats from scratching it. But don’t do it unless you have an alternative surface that’s okay for them to scratch. They need to scratch for various reasons, so it’s best to give them an allowed surface.
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: even he isn’t stupid enough to think this makes him look good.
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): there was an article earlier this week that had axelrod talking about how Patrick should run. But that’s all.
Yarrow
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy birthday, SD! Hope you are having a wonderful 75th.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Major Major Major Major: I made a joke some time back about how Jacobin, TYT, etc., would announce they’d support Cuomo in is 2020 run – doesn’t look so far-fetched now.
Also worth noting that John Delaney is currently the only Dem officially running for prez.
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): ETA: The Mic article that focused on Harris is more even-handed.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Major Major Major Major: I.e., literally the day before Cooper’s piece was published.
Major Major Major Major
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): yeah, there are legit reasons not to wholeheartedly embrace Harris on everything, but it’s not exactly insightful to point that out. Leftists seem to be so incapable of dealing with nuance nowadays.
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): I assume it was in reference to something Axelrod had said before yesterday since it wasn’t by Axelrod.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy Birthday. You do not seem 75, which I guess is the new 55 or something.
And you get news of a Trump-related Grand Jury for your bday. That’s tasty.
It’s fun to find out who shares whose birthday. Omnes (wishing you a good scotch, or whatever, tonight) and Corner Stone (wishing you no fire ants).
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
Happy birthday and many happy returns!
sharl
@schrodingers_cat: Los Angeles criminal defense attorney (and former prosecutor, at Federal level IIRC) Ken White – who tweets and blogs as Popehat – just did an 11-tweet thread on this news that may answer some of your questions.
Also an earlier thread of his might be helpful, where he explains the differences between target, witness, and subject.
Major Major Major Major
There’s a new meme going around: Your Last Text is The Democrats’ 2018 Slogan
Mine is some banal instructions about FedEx drop offs, so it’s not funny for me, alas.
Peale
@Major Major Major Major: I’d assumed that when he joined Bain, he was effectively retiring. He could have gone anywhere, you know. I know that they’re the biggest PE firm in Boston, but come on.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@ajor Major Major Major: When I responded to the slogan, it was a response to Mike J that joked about Greek/Cyrillic transliteration – right now, it’s this:
https://twitter.com/x_t_pd/status/893203654324473856
Major Major Major Major
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): it’s ‘text’, not ‘tweet’.
rikyrah
AWE, they look cute
rikyrah
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
We should be clear: As long as there remains a segregated and unequal K-12 system, there is no meritocracy in college admissions.
3:38 PM – 2 Aug 2017
MomSense
Sweet kitties. They look very happy.
We have a pug at work today. I iz in love. He keeps chasing his tail and making the cutest snorting noises which I’m pretty sure are just his normal breathing sounds.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Major Major Major Major: “Ok”
Major Major Major Major
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): well now mine is “back to work!”
ETA: I suspect most people cheat at these
schrodingers_cat
@sharl:Thanks!
Bonnie
They are such lovely cats! Lucky you.
lurker dean
@SiubhanDuinne: happy birthday, SD! and i’m glad to see the cats helping you with the mail, cheryl! :o)
Catherine310
Did you steal my cat!! Spot on the butt, black tail, black cap. That is my Hazel. 19 years and still going.
Cheers! I’d send a photo if I could get her from behind the bookcase.
But she’s a cuddler.
Cheryl Rofer
@SiubhanDuinne: Happy birthday! Okay, the kitties share a birthday with you!
Cheryl Rofer
@Miss Bianca: Their shelter names were Ricotta and Zuppa. I didn’t like that but wanted to stay with similar sounds.
Cheryl Rofer
Meanwhile, in Baltimore. If you need a furry friend, now is the time!
SiubhanDuinne
@Cheryl Rofer:
Awesome! August 3rd is a date with some wonderfulness to it, so your kittehs are in good company. It’s Martin Sheen’s 77th, and it is the 79th birthday of the terrific British actor Edward Petherbridge, and would have been the 97th of the great British mystery writer P. D. James. Okay, and Martha Stewart’s 76th, which I’ve never cared that much about. But Sheen, Petherbridge, and James? YESSSS! Also, the opening of Teatro alla Scala in 1778, and the departure in 1492 of Columbus’s first voyage to what turned out to be the New World.
M. Bouffant
Two rather well-fed appearing feline friends.
And birthday best wishes to all celebrating!
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: Ha ha, my last text just happens to have been, “coming home, grabbing some rum”! So, obviously, Dems are going to make a big push for FL this year!
Mnemosyne
@Cheryl Rofer:
Keaton’s shelter name was “Kiki,” so I get you on wanting a similar sound.
He is now much too large and majestic a cat to be a mere Kiki. You know your cat is part Maine Coon when you take him out of the carrier and the vet says, Wow, that’s a big cat. ?
Cheryl Rofer
@SiubhanDuinne: Wow!
@Mnemosyne: I had a part Maine Coon once. The first time I took him to the vet, I told the vet before he opened the carrier, “Watch out, he’s big and he’s fast.” The vet was cool until he opened the carrier and Tommy flew out.
sm*t cl*de
@Cheryl Rofer:
Maine Coons are not really cats. They are thick fur coats wrapped around large vet bills.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VPfFunUleI0/UsVbHTIIm-I/AAAAAAAAOUA/535ISJQ0Au0/s1600/IMG_1907.jpg
SiubhanDuinne
Thanks to all for birthday wishes!
No One You Know
@gene108: Offer sisal scratch posts, with without catnip. Jute is also good so that they can “do their nails.”
Otherwise they may habituate to their targets and not go for the Good Stuff!
Amir Khalid
@SiubhanDuinne:
Happy birthday! I’ll never forget your kindness in emailing to enquire about my welfare during my break from commenting a while back.
rikyrah
@SiubhanDuinne:
Happy Birthday ?????
dww44
I love your cats.