Bunny Yoga
I thought we could use a sweet distraction. What better than some rescue bunnies?
I received a request from a friend of mine (some of you met her at the first meet-up). She volunteers at the Colorado House Rabbit Society and also adopted a bonded pair of bunnies from them.
Seems there is a hay shortage in the country and it’s gotten very expensive. They entered a contest, we all wrote glowing essays and they are now a finalist.
Heide Sue (up for adoption)
So I said I’d give it a little boost here. Please vote if you are inclined. They do good works (as I’m sure all the bunny rescues do). They take in bunnies from all over the country, from shelters that have closed, from hoarders…and my favorite, this summer they were part of a cross-country caravan. They offered a rest stop where a hundred bunnies were fed, watered, brushed and cages cleaned. Took hours and a bunch of volunteers, but they sent them on their way refreshed.
We just got a bunch of bunnies from an out of state shelter that closed. We are stuffed with bunnies, all who need hay. We are well over capacity right now. We need the hay!
If you’d like to help, just click here and vote for the Colorado House Rabbit Society (they are third row, center)
The bunnies thank you. And if you’re in Colorado and looking for bunnies, they have plenty to choose from.
Open thread!
NotMax
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Win 7, FF 56 point something.
ruemara
Done! Because bunnies forever! I’ve had house rabbits and they are wonderful.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Just pushed this to Alain.
debit
Obligatory ParryGripp video. Bobbity Bunny.
Xboxershorts
Bunnie’s claim one of their own
“Dennis Hof dead at 72: Bunny Ranch owner and GOP candidate is found ‘unresponsive’ in bed at his infamous Nevada brothel by porn star Ron Jeremy, hours after celebrating his birthday together”
SiubhanDuinne
Done. Loves me some little bunrabs.
debit
IN MODERATION WHY? I JUST WANT TO SHARE THE ADORABLE BUNNY VIDEO WHY WON’T YOU LET ME? ::cries::
ETA: Sorry, it’s an all caps day. I feel like writing to John.
A Ghost To Most
We already have an entire warren of bunnies living in our yard. Right in the path of the oncoming 54 inch pipeline. I’m not sure how to save them. Watership Down comes to mind.
piratedan
so these would be Wescue Wabbits?
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Knew some people in college who kept a rabbit in their dorm room. Bunny would hop over and attempt to hump my ankle each and every time I visited there. They insisted I was the only one who elicited that reaction.
ruemara
Hmm. Well, Xboxershorts, I shan’t stoop so low as to say I’m happy he died, but I can’t say I’m in mourning either.
trollhattan
@piratedan:
Absowootwee! (And they aw wasscawee)
NotMax
Speaking of wabbits, anyone else remember this?
germy
Just finished reading Babbit.
I noticed his wife has to go to the hospital because of appendix problems and she stays for seventeen days.
Back then they really believed in bed rest and long hospital stays.
NotMax
@germy
Pre-antibiotics. Risk of post-operative complications that much greater.
germy
@NotMax: Nowadays, we get infections if we stay in the hospital.
EDIT:
I notice at several points in the book Babbit notices his son’s interest in something called “wireless telephony”
And after reading the book, now I want a sleeping porch.
Fair Economist
@NotMax: Bunnies and Burrows was quite a novelty. Watership Down fans tended to like it and everybody else thought it was silly. I had a friend who had played in a B&B campaign and thought it was quite fun.
The Pale Scot
The black bunny looks Scottish to me.
I’m reading the Guard on Brexit and read a truly great comment that I believe is wonderfully useful as a political statement:
Terrible images of various Thugs licking their ……
God I’m sorry I brought it up
Edit: The Black Bunny looks like someone is reaching for his wallet, ergo..
NotMax
@germy
Been gone over here before – if you watch the early Dr. Kildare movies, you’ll see patients in peril from and doctors at odds over proper treatment for some conditions we consider duck soup to deal with today.
Wag
Colorado House Rabbit Rescue is a quality group. They have my vote.
NotMax
Typical.
N.B.: Gotta be a pseudonym, as Elliot Alderson happens to be name of the lead character in the Mr. Robot TV series.
Kathleen
Voted because bunnies and TaMara!
lamh36
Uh huh…so Chump is the Saudis w/Kavanugh huh…this is the house you built Republicans…
lamh36
lamh36
Oooh… new from the Neil Gaiman (author of American Gods) and Terry Pratchett. This looks very interesting! Love David Tennant and Micheal Sheen.
Good Omens – Official Teaser Trailer I Prime Video https://youtu.be/2ZSXlNRRoGU via @YouTube
lamh36
Newly appointed interim president and CEO of USA Gymnastics Mary Bono announced she’s resigning.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mary-bono-usa-gymnastics-larry-nassar_us_5bc63fe5e4b055bc947b0104?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via @HuffPostSports
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Haha, she placed her foot right in her mouth as soon as she possibly could.
lamh36
@Xboxershorts: Wait…wait…wait… Grover Norquist was at this brothel party where ole boy died!
https://media.giphy.com/media/12Nv3nBSCAbLO0/giphy.gif
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
But have you seen Charles Bickford save Shirley Temple’s life with a quick ‘n’ easy blood transfusion in Little Miss Marker?
lamh36
Uh…DAFUQ!!
So the Nazis/Klan don’t care if you’re gay, just not colored or jewish?
Oh and someone said…not a blonde hair, blue eyed one in the bunch…ole skool Nazis would be appalled, I reckon…
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1052213021429428225
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@lamh36:
The Court of Public Opinion doesn’t work that way, Trump. Besides, it’s not like Saudi Arabia has a sterling human rights record, foreign or domestic.
lamh36
JPL
@Adam L Silverman: Would you mind posting your thoughts about how the president is handling dismembering of a Washington Post employee?
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Beyond appalling!
Even Trump can’t be this stupid. I am now moving him from the Stupid & Evil pile to the Evil and Getting Away with It Pile.
Steeplejack
@germy:
You may want to rethink the sleeping porch.
Gin & Tonic
@lamh36:
Well, he walked into the consulate, and hasn’t been seen since. What alternate theory is there?
This is like Putin with Skripal – the public aspect is precisely the point, to show that all KSA has to say is “jump” and Il Donaldo says “how high.”
germy
@Steeplejack: Carl LaFong!
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Why would Trump be bringing up the Mueller investigation now? It’s been out of the news for weeks. That makes no sense to me, unless something is coming down the pike.
*edit to add: Unless Trump thinks it’s a good idea to use the Mueller investigation to distract from the “I don’t care if the Saudis murdered and dismembered a journalist from the US” story.
lamh36
OMG…Adam and Betty…what da fuq are ya’ll feeding the gators in Florida? People??
JPL
@WaterGirl: That was my thought.
lamh36
debbie
@germy:
My mother kept the hospital bill from when she delivered me. She stayed almost a week and the bill was around $50.00, everything included.
peej01
@germy: When I had cellulitis in my leg, I ended up staying in the hospital for 5-7 days both times…even though I was ready to go home after 2 days. They wouldn’t let me leave until the infection in my blood was down to a certain level…and even then, they sent me home with a picc line so I could continue the IV antibiotics.
Steve in the ATL
@Xboxershorts: good.
@lamh36: good.
@lamh36: bad. But at least it’s now being reported by a reputation news agency, so our earlier posters who were concerned it was liberal fake news can relax.
aliasofwestgate
@lamh36: The book it’s based on is a hilarious satire of Revelations and all that rot. One of the funniest books i’ve ever read and owned. This adaptation basically has me in squee mode. Sir Terry would love it too, i’d bet.
peej01
@lamh36: When I was a contractor with the Customs Service, one of the government people who had to testify before a committee she was on characterized her as “dumb a box of rocks.”
West of the Rockies
@The Pale Scot:
C’mon, man…
eemom
Gonna see if I can find Redshift, our resident bunny expert.
WaterGirl
@debbie: I have the hospital bill for my birth, too. I can’t recall the exact amount, but it was something like yours. We got a big laugh out of that.
lamh36
the full quote:
Mike in NC
I remember when the media decided to ridicule Jimmy Carter for being attacked by a “killer rabbit”.
WaterGirl
Voted!
edit: It just takes a second to vote and the Colorado House does not currently have the most votes.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: The world we are living in is beyond surreal.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Crybaby Bono claims that she was forced out over her Nike protest, but it turns out that’s not quite true, as usual:
And yet the myth is going to be that Bono was forced out by the mean ol’ liberals, not that gymnasts protested the appointment because she worked for the law firm that helped cover up for Nassar.
Aleta
Here’s the giant bunny “part of the family” video. In case someone hasn’t seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=189&v=AyUYeLrXqug
Steeplejack
@germy:
For sure!
I thought that scene also included the brat dropping a marble through a knothole into Fields’s gaping mouth, but I guess I was wrong.
trollhattan
@lamh36:
Good, she’s the LAST thing that sport needed to shed their horrid history.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
Vegetable man! Vegetable gentleman!
Gex
@lamh36: Nazis don’t care if you’re gay…at first. Ernst Rohm comes to mind.
They don’t care, they prefer their racism.
Mnemosyne
On the subject of bunnies, I remember WereBear saying one time that she used to have house bunnies and cats at the same time. The cats seemed to accept and treat the bunny as a strange-looking cat (“Don’t mention his ears! You’ll make him feel bad!”)
NotMax
@Steeplejack
A grape, not a marble, if memory serves.
trollhattan
Evidently, Donny Tweetered this today:
IIUC they’re already across the Guatemalan border so Honduras can’t really, you know, go get them short of starting a war but hey, “Mexicans are coming for our Jerbs!”
NotMax
@germy
My favorite of Fields’ films and the one I use to introduce the uninitiated to him.
Gin & Tonic
Dancing dog, for your amusement (and trepidation.)
Chyron HR
@trollhattan:
“Right now, in this tweet. Someone @ him in case he doesn’t follow me.”
NotMax
@Chyron HR
All the Honduran president need do is flatly deny it’s happening to Dolt 45. Works for other heads of state.
Jay
Piers Morgan’s having a twitter meltdown over Bond using a baby carrier,
https://www.wonkette.com/james-bond-sexed-a-lady-and-got-her-pregnant-and-now-hes-carrying-his-baby-around-what-a-queer
Gelfling 545
@lamh36: I shall look forward to this. Does David Tennant ever play anyone who’s not at least slightly deranged?
p.a.
I would love to
braiseeh… heh heh… raise a rabbit.Know how to hypnotize a rabbit? Lay a trusting one ? on its back with its ears straight out in line with its body. Rub its belly and blow gently into its nose. I’d tell you how I know this, but it’s a family blog.
Want to know how to un-hypnotize said rabbit? Send $10.
(It really does work. Just shake them gently and they come to. The people who showed me this said there were no ill effects, but as always ymmv.)
Keith P.
Your moment of Zen – Giant Angora rabbits
Mike J
@germy:
I think it was in the 1943 movie Tender Comrade that a woman goes to the hospital to have a baby and because the war is on they say she can only stay five days.
Brachiator
@Jay: Wow. Morgan is not only a fool, he insists on doubling down on his stupidity.
I think that some of the UK satirical shows tape or record on Thursdays. Just in time to get this in.
Redshift
I volunteer with the HRS DC-Baltimore chapter, and the Colorado group is definitely one of the more active ones. Three cheers for the bunnies!
Brachiator
From NPR
Weren’t the tax cuts supposed to pay for themselves?
Look for the GOP to try to slash Social Security after the midterms.
jeffreyw
@NotMax: I remember an episode of Ben Casey where Ben lost his shit over a colleague cutting a wart off a lady. “Cancer cells even now coursing through her bloodstream!”
p.a.
@Brachiator: Imagine how the deficit will explode when the cost of fumigating the WH is added after tRump leaves.
Steeplejack
@Brachiator:
McConnell already said something about it today. Someone linked to it in one of the earlier posts.
. . . Read it and weep: “McConnell Blames Entitlements, Not GOP, for Rising Deficits.”
Baud
@Brachiator:
I blame Democrats.
zhena gogolia
@p.a.:
I WAS JUST THINKING THAT! You read my mind.
Amir Khalid
@Xboxershorts:
I did not know that Ron Jeremy was a Republican.
WaterGirl
@Gelfling 545: Broadchurch!
edit: Doctor Who.
WaterGirl
TaMara, are we allowed to vote every day, or just once?
A Ghost To Most
@p.a.: Not to worry; burning the WH will be their Reichstag Fire.
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: Good. That was quick. Her NIKE nonsense was reprehensible. She can now go and work for a rightwing outfit.
Skepticat
Done, though it was hard to pass by an organization named the Pipsqueakery.
Surprised and displeased that it’s so hot and muggy in the Bahamas, which usually by this time of year have turned to the default setting of New England summer (the traditional, nice ones I remember most fondly). Heat turbocharges my fibromyalgia, which needs no help. I also just added something to the list of things I need to bring rather than buy here–a 16-ounce bottle of pure vanilla was $50 plus 14% VAT.
lamh36
SiubhanDuinne
@A Ghost To Most:
oh god please don’t start this again I’m not sure my blood pressure can even deal with it
NotMax
@jeffreyw
Hoary joke:
Whom should I make an appointment with, Casey or Kildare?
‘Tis a paradox.
;)
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: lol btw CBS Atlanta covered the bus episode from the senior center.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Haha, it’s a real story all right. You know I was slightly skeptical earlier, but it’s the real thing and of course it is horrifying. How DARE those fuckers?!!
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne: I had a long talk with an Indian today!
He’s a lawyer whose parents are from a small town in India and are still devout Hindus even after tasting the tempting pagan flesh of Georgia Tech and Buckhead.
Suck on that, SPW!
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
Jeebo Peese, I hope you didn’t tell them about Buford Highway!
Steve in the ATL
@JPL: @SiubhanDuinne: BTW, got canvassed today by a couple of volunteers for Stacey Abrams! It’s almost as if suburban Atlanta is no longer a deep red nightmare, but a nightmare with good schools and low crime.
Apropos of nothing, the two canvassers were young Indian women.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Marcus Welby, M.D.?
Dougie Howser?
HOUSE?????????
WaterGirl
@lamh36: That’s as bad as the white “lady” who confronted the black fellow in his own building. The person who made them get off the bus needs to lose their job, too.
This ship called the US better right itself soon or I may spontaneously combust.
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne: baby steps.
And who has done the math on these proposed constitutional amendments and referenda? They read like some asshole lawyer wrote them in such a way that no non-lobbyist can figure them out. I suppose the question is who is supporting each one–our people or (shudder) their people?
hitchhiker
I’m feeling like a mean liberal today. How mean?
Mean enough to enjoy knowing that Tucker Carlson’s mom left his dad, him, and his brother to go live a “bohemian” lifestyle when he was six years old. He never saw her again.
Mean, mean, mean. Maybe this is why old Tucker thinks it’s perfectly fine to take immigrant kids away from their moms. Why should they get moms when he didn’t?
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
As much as I’ve been phonebanking for Dem candidates, I keep hoping I’ll get a list at some point that includes names of people I know. Steve in the Wherever! JPL, whom I’ve known personally for seven years at least!
Jay
@hitchhiker:
What made me happy was Tucker’s “reveal” that he has to eat TV dinners at home infront of the TV because mean people yell at him in public always.
Marcopolo
@Steve in the ATL: I realize you told me back in July in person that Stacy had no chance and that contributing to her campaign might wind up ruining your prediction but I really hope you’ve given her some financial support. I have sent her some bucks all the way from StL :).
WaterGirl
Is anyone else planning to watch the debate tonight? Beto vs. Cruz.
Cruz makes me cringe in disgust, but Beto is like a long drink of water while we’re in this awful desert.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
New post just went up on that very topic.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Thanks. I was hoping to drum up some interest so I wouldn’t be alone on that thread. :-)
lahke
@WaterGirl: Now it has the most votes–hurrah for BJ!
Miss Bianca
So far they’re ahead! 560 votes, just turned 561 with my vote! : )
Colorado Bunny House!! Sometimes I wish I didn’t have a Husky, I love bunnies!
WaterGirl
@lahke: Yay! For now, anyway.
rikyrah
The bunnies are so cute ? ?
Brachiator
USA Today has one of the best recent takes on the stupidity of the GOP tax cuts. One part of their summary:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/16/blame-republican-tax-cuts-soaring-federal-deficits-column/1657338002/
Dorothy A. Winsor
@debbie: The most surprising part of that is how long she was in the hospital. Now they wave goodbye shortly after they deliver the afterbirth.
TaMara (HFG)
Thank you, everyone!
WaterGirl
@TaMara (HFG): TaMara, did you see my question about whether we can vote more than once? Can we vote every day?
eclare
I voted!
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl: “Vote early, vote often!”
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: I’m originally from Chicago, you know. :-)
Steve in the ATL
@WaterGirl: jeez, who isn’t around here?!
Steve originally from the ORD
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl: Lived there for ten years, myself, so of course that’s when I picked up the mantra.
Manyakitty
Voted! They were in the lead about 20 minutes ago.
Pogonip
@NotMax: Nope, it was just a time when doctors, not insurance companies, decided how long you stayed in the hospital. If you read Berton Roueche’s “The Medical Detectives” books you will find several post-antibiotic patients who stayed in the hospital until their doctors felt they were ready to go home.
HeartlandLiberal
Samwise would look at this diary and think what a shame it was he did not have a few taters.