Cheers and Jeers: Monday

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…

Fresh off the mimeograph machine:

This Week's RNC Motivational Action List
Sept. 28 - Oct. 4
Monday Take all the time you need to reflect on all the positive and worthwhile things you learned over the weekend from the Values Voters Summit. Spend the remaining 23 hours, 59 minutes and 55 seconds reviewing your Obama impeachment list.

Tuesday Clear your head of "stinkin' thinkin'" by picturing a happy, placid scene of illegals being shipped back to Mexico in boxcars via the main entrance through the Great Wall of Trump.

Wednesday With that nip of fall in the air, today is a good day to write a letter to your local newspaper warning about the dangers of global cooling. Go ahead and make up your own facts---they'll print it anyway. This evening: tell your Seething At Hillary class instructor to kick it up a notch!

Thursday Butt-dial John Boehner and let one rip. Then scratch a pesky itch with your open-carry Glock, but don’t bother checking to see if it's unloaded because you're a responsible Republican gun owner so how could it not be?

Friday Don't take no for an answer, give no for an answer. Then practice mansplaining lady parts in front of a mirror so you'll be ready to win hearts and hoo-hahs at upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings.

Weekend Join the March On Washington Against President Obama's Treasonous Act of Being President. But first have your Democrat neighbor spellcheck your signs.

All Week: Don’t bake a single thing for the gays.
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Have a great week! God Bless America and Money and Bombs!
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Cheers and Jeers for Monday, September 28, 2015

Note: From the Eyewitness News desk, Volkswagen unveils its new advertising slogan: "Fudgevergnugen!" Film at 11.

Darth vader balloon at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta in 2012

Vader balloon from the 2012
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.

By the Numbers:
Days 'til the first Democratic debate: 15
Days 'til the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta: 5
Revised GDP in the second quarter: 3.9%
Expected spending per person on Halloween this year: $74
(Source: National Retail Federation)
Percent of U.S. millennials (those ages 18-34) who identify as atheist or agnostic: 13%
Percent of Harvard freshmen who are atheist/agnostic: 38%
(Source: The Washington Post)
Year by which humans were expected to start having sex with robots, according to a 2006 prediction by
the European Robotics Network: 2011

Totally Random NFL Score
New England Patriots 51 Jacksonville Jaguars 17

Puppy Pic of the Day: Bull terriers in pajamas, anyone?

John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, ultrahawk,Mitt Romney adviser

On the U.N.'s agenda: renewing its
restraining order against John Bolton.

CHEERS to world peace...or a semi-close approximation thereof. If it's autumn in New York, that means it's General Assembly time! All the leaders of the universe are assembled at the United Nations this week (Obama will share a few precious moments with Putin in a side room discussing this and that) in an annual contest to see which one can be the biggest public nuisance. Although I have to say it's not quite as looney toons as it was back when we had some real unstable goofballs wandering its hallways: Hugo Chavez (dead), Mahmud Ahmadinejahd (term-limited), George W. Bush (takin' up drawin' stuff in the bathtub). I guess the best we can hope for is Benjamin Netanyahu to step up to the lectern again with his cartoon bomb out of Wile E. Coyote's Acme catalog. But perhaps the lack of nutty showboaters might mean something constructive may actually get done, like on climate change. Then, as custom now dictates, the General Assembly will honor the memory of Muammar Gadaffi by closing with a moment of silence lasting zero seconds.

Trevor Noah on the set of The Daily Show

Bullshit Mountain is his beat now.

CHEERS to comings and goings. Coming: Trevor Noah, who takes the Daily Show reins from Jon Stewart tonight. (Fearless prediction: he's going to fall flat on his face unless he doesn't.) Going: Speaker John Boehner, who admitted Friday he can't stand the heat so he's getting out of the hell's kitchen known as the House of Representatives. The biggest difference between him and his replacement: less spray-on tan and fewer tears. Coming: First Lady Michelle Obama, who will be Stephen Colbert's guest tonight on The Late Show. Going: Pope Francis, who flew back to Rome after leaving U.S. crowds only slightly-less bedazzled than the cable news anchors. Feel free to unbutton your pants and start belching again.

CHEERS to the re-branding thing. Let's check in and see how Reince Priebus is doing with his five-year-old master plan to reach out to minorities and prevent the Republican party from becoming a tiny hovel of shriveled angry white people rife with Ben-Gay fumes and swollen prostates:

"Did you bring the black guy?"
"No... did you?"
"I thought you had him." - h/t Sean Platter pic.twitter.com/Ic60aZPlZj
— Donna NoShock (@NoShock) September 25, 2015

Well. In fairness, it is a work in progress.

JEERS to unnecessary censorship. As long as there have been books, there have been banned books. That's as true as ever in 2015, which is why this is Banned Books Week:

"Blasssss...phemy!!!"

Upwards of 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982 for content that some consider to be offensive, according to the American Library Association. During Banned Books Week, celebrated this year from September 27 to October 3, book lovers unite to fight what they call censorship of literature by promoting books that have landed on the challenged list.
The organization cited analysis by author Malinda Lo showing that 52% of books challenged in the past decade could be classified as "diverse." "It's clear to me that books that fall outside the white, straight, abled mainstream are challenged more often than books that do not destabilize the status quo," Lo wrote on her website. "This isn't surprising, but the extent to which diverse books are represented
on these lists---as a majority---is quite disheartening."

This year's theme is adult fiction, and here are the top five "most challenged" books in that category: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, LPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I once thought about banning Ann Coulter's books from our house. But I would hate to give up the best doorstops we've ever had.

CHEERS to the beginning of the end. On September 28, 1781, during the War of Independence, American troops backed by ~~the French fleet~~ Ronald Reagan riding a trained dolphin while brandishing a bazooka [Revision courtesy of TX Dept. of Ed. textbook approval committee], began their siege of Yorktown, Virginia. The British, trapped like rats, were forced to surrender, thus securing our freedom as an independent nation. Moral of the story: only fools go to war on a peninsula without jetpacks.

Donald trump at the Values Voters Summit holding a Bible  Sept. 25, 2015

Trump showed off his favorite book
at the summit: Binder Full of Insults.

CHEERS to the Craziest Show on Earth! Racist hilarity and Christian-supremacy hijinks were on full display this weekend as the conservative outside–the-DC-beltway crowd got together for their annual Values Voters Summit inside the DC beltway. This year's pea-brained winner in the 2016 Get Crushed By Hillary straw poll, for the third year in a row, was Senator Rafael Cruz (R-TX). But the real winner was clerk Kim Davis, who dragged a cross while wearing a crown of thorns all the way up from Kentucky to accept the Martyr in a Muu Muu Award for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples from her Rowan County office. She received a bouquet of flowers and a roll of toilet paper with the U.S. Constitution printed on it. Due to the size of the crowd, an overflow room was provided for her husbands and out-of-wedlock children.

Ten years ago in C&J: September 28, 2005

CHEERS to stuff that happens when Bush isn't involved. After 30 years of conflict, the Irish Republican Army has junked its arsenal of weaponry. Says senior Sinn Fein member Martin---what else---McGuinness, "I believe that Ireland stands on the cusp of a truly historic advance, and I hope that people across the island will respond positively in the time ahead." I'll raise a pint to that!

And just one more…

BABY PANDA to baby panda. Baby panda baby panda (baby? panda?) baby panda, baby panda BABY PANDA! baby panda….

This is what 2.95lbs. of adorable looks like. At the same ages his siblings were 2 & 2.6lbs. #PandaStory pic.twitter.com/wFLBoQxbSo
— National Zoo (@NationalZoo) September 22, 2015

Baby panda: baby, panda. Ha ha ha!!!

P.S. Baby panda mama panda:

Mama panda at National Zoo with baby Bei-Bei.  September 2015.

Have a baby panda Monday, baby pandas. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?

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Central Misery Tears (65+ / 0-)

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Tears for Mason:

We had to put him down last Thursday. He was the last of the Dauphine cats.

He started going downhill maybe 3 weeks ago. Two weeks ago it was noticeable. We took him in for tests, everything came back normal. We put him on some pain killers and an appetite-inducing med which seemed to help. He was slow, slept even more than usual and wasn't his normal self; still, he didn't seem distressed.

But he was going downhill so we kept a close eye on him. Last Tuesday he didn't something unusual and yet very much usual: he made his "rounds". Since Uli died in Jan 2012 leaving Mason alone, he gets up in the morning, walks around the Dauphine, checks out things on the bluff and the outbuildings, then would head up to Mom's house for a bit. On Tuesday, he went around front and took a nap on the cistern. He hasn't done that in years. He then slowly moved around the Dauphine then went up to Mom's house, that's something he hasn't done since early spring.

She let him in, he gingerly jumped up on her bed and slept for a couple of hours. She brought him downhill. Mrs grog remarked it was as if he was saying goodbye to his grandma, his old favorite spot on the cistern, etc. Sure enough, on Wed, he got up, went under the deck in the courtyard, then over to one of the sheds. I was sprawled out on the sidewalk over there in the late afternoon. I took him into the garage. He drank some, ate very little.

Next morning, Thursday, he wouldn't come down from one of the tubes in the cat room. We knew it was time.

Mason came to us in June 2000:

He had that broken mason jar on his head, hence his name. We had to trap him. And of course kept him.

This is one of his last photos, taken 1 Aug this year:

He was skittish around strangers but loved his friends once he got to know them.

We like to think now he's roaming the woods with his bestest buddy, Oliver, then coming back for a relazing snooze:

Mason turned out to be the longest tenured Dauphine cat, 15 years. He was around 16 last week when he left us. The Dauphine courtyard:

won't he the same without him.

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by grog on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:18:22 AM PDT

Sorry to hear that, grog. (37+ / 0-)

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Tough when any animal leaves us, but especially when it's the proverbial end of an era.

But glad you and Mrs. grog had 15 years together with him at the Dauphine.

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by Bill in Portland Maine on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:34:04 AM PDT

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Awww. Tears for Mason. Hugs to you. (26+ / 0-)

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Awww. Tears for Mason. Hugs to you.

by rb608 on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:44:21 AM PDT

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So sorry.. it is soooo hard, but Mason seemed to (24+ / 0-)

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be in charge and saying his good-yes. Sweet story.

Those orange sherbert kitties are wonderful. My Rolf spent 17 years with me, along with his Mama, Ilsa. They came together from the Rescue and went to the Rainbow Bridge within weeks of one another.

How can we enhance the human dimensions that really bind us together, as opposed to the religions or the nationalities that separate us?

by drudau on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:49:44 AM PDT

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Why why why (24+ / 0-)

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can't they live longer?

I'm so sorry.

"Republicans are poor losers and worse winners." - My grandmother, sometime in the early 1960s

by escapee on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:53:04 AM PDT

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Mason the Cat ...... (25+ / 0-)

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..... purred for many years on this Earth. Now, chasing mice at the Bridge.

"We should pay attention to that man behind the curtain."

by Ed Tracey on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:57:46 AM PDT

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{{{grog & Mrs. grog}}} (20+ / 0-)

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It's so tough to let the Beloveds go..., even though going over the Rainbow Bridge is inevitable.

May your years of accumulated happy memories of your handsome Mason ease your grief.

Condolences & many hugs to you & the rest of the human and fur family members who will miss Mason.

I'm sick of attempts to steer this nation from principles evolved in The Age of Reason to hallucinations derived from illiterate herdsmen. ~ Crashing Vor

by NonnyO on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:06:02 AM PDT

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Condolences. (20+ / 0-)

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Rainbow Bridge by BzTat

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis; -8.38/-7.44

by Save the Mitten on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:26:13 AM PDT

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Aw geez. (13+ / 0-)

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That did it. I can't cry at work!

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck

by Bulldawg on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:00:24 AM PDT

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It's hard to lose a family member. (17+ / 0-)

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RIP, Mason.

The trouble with normal is, it always gets worse. – Bruce Cockburn

by jck on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:35:50 AM PDT

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Very sorry to hear the news! (18+ / 0-)

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The Dauphine has had more than it's share of sadness & loss lately. Condolences to grog & Mrs. grog.

The better I know people, the more I like my dog

by Thinking Fella on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:38:21 AM PDT

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I'm so sorry for your loss....they seem to leave (17+ / 0-)

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us too soon...even when they've had a good many years here.

Mason was such a handsome fellow, too...has the look of HLOS about him, all ginger and white.

He'll be playing and frisking over the bridge, with all our beloveds who went before him. I wish you comfort in your sadness, and joy in your memories.

"Live with no excuses and Love with no regrets."

by The Marti on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:42:27 AM PDT

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Aw, I'm so sorry. (12+ / 0-)

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I have lost many cats and dogs over the years, and you never stop missing them.

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck

by Bulldawg on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:59:14 AM PDT

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Such a fine tribute (12+ / 0-)

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Hope the warm memories and excellent pictures will salve large Mason-sized hole left behind.

by John in Denver on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:30:04 AM PDT

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Tears (5+ / 0-)

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Condolences to you & mrs grog; it's always hard to lose one of our furry friends.

Miss Aji? She blogs here now.
I’m a feminist because the message is still "don’t get raped" not "don’t rape."

by Avilyn on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 09:48:56 AM PDT

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I'm very saddened to hear of Masons passing. (2+ / 0-)

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I hope you and especially Mrs. grog are O.K.
And grandma grog as well.

without deviation from the norm progress is impossible- Frank Zappa

by bill dog on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 10:58:24 AM PDT

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Oh, I am so sorry (0+ / 0-)

Such a beautiful boy! I don't doubt that he was saying goodbye to people and places he loved. What a good long life you gave him! Peace and comfort to you.

IGTNT

by Ekaterin on Tue Sep 29, 2015 at 07:27:56 PM PDT

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Judas Priest - Breaking The Law (16+ / 0-)

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by Mishima on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:19:14 AM PDT
Funny stuff. (12+ / 0-)

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Funny stuff.

by Chokingsmoker on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:25:17 AM PDT
LOL (24+ / 0-)

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Weekend Join the March On Washington Against President Obama's Treasonous Act of Being President.

by flumptytail on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:27:10 AM PDT

Flumpty ! my woman of mystery... (14+ / 0-)

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perhaps in another life we will meet and possibly sit in adjoining seats on a bus. Is it too much to ask for?

how are you?

dying is easy. comity is hard.

by el vasco on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:38:53 AM PDT

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Now that would be something to look forward (11+ / 0-)

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to! Hi el vasco, I'm doing good. How about you?

by flumptytail on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:47:22 AM PDT

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can't complain, despite the urge to. (10+ / 0-)

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your personal war with tobacco: who's winning?

dying is easy. comity is hard.

by el vasco on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:49:28 AM PDT

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That's good. Currently tobacco is winning :-/ (9+ / 0-)

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by flumptytail on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:55:48 AM PDT

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booooooo! (9+ / 0-)

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keep fighting the good fight. My spouse, Palooka Jane, has also lost the last few rounds

and let me close by apologizing for my brazen use of the word
"adjoining" in my initial comment. Adjoining implies actual contact while adjacent implies proximity. I got carried away.

dying is easy. comity is hard.

by el vasco on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:05:24 AM PDT

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That's a shame. I hope she and I both win the (10+ / 0-)

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next one.
I didn't know adjoining implied actual contact, lol.
I got to see the eclipse last night. First ever in my life we had good enough weather to see something like that. It was awesome.

by flumptytail on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:14:08 AM PDT

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same here--saw it over the Hudson... (11+ / 0-)

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an amazing evening. took many photos and then joined the rest of North America in trying to download and send to each other, freezing the local web like a 1964 Catholic school girl on her first date.

dying is easy. comity is hard.

by el vasco on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:21:24 AM PDT

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LOL !!! I tried to take a picture but it just (8+ / 0-)

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looked like a white dot.

by flumptytail on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:30:51 AM PDT

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yup. got a bunch of those. (8+ / 0-)

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eventually found a way to stabilize the camera and got a few burnt orange beauties.

adios til next time--

dying is easy. comity is hard.

by el vasco on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:37:07 AM PDT

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Morning, Flumpty! (19+ / 0-)

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He really should be booted from office at some point in the next 15 months.

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by Bill in Portland Maine on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:04:43 AM PDT

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I want to ask those people do they really think (13+ / 0-)

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our government with all it's resources could let someone who is not an American citizen become president. Or ever be able to figure out if he wasn't. Goofballs.
Morning, did you get to see the eclipse last night?

by flumptytail on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:18:13 AM PDT

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Yep. It was clear as a bell here. (7+ / 0-)

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Cool little space show.

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by Bill in Portland Maine on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:25:36 AM PDT

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Today's random NCAA Football Score (11+ / 0-)

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Notre Dame 62 UMass 27

But the first half was interesting...

A conservative is a [person] with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Adam Blomeke on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:31:46 AM PDT
No one should be on a list for receiving aid. (21+ / 0-)

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Cheers to the Pope. What a wonderful week.
He said Philadelphia was warm and welcoming.

Cheers to Bernie Sanders.

Jeers to clouds keeping me from seeing the lunar eclipse.

Jeers to Republicans.

Please stop calling conservatives Christians. There is nothing Christ like about them.
I know how we can get rid of Trump: say what he really wants to be, a king. Wait, we are not Rome.
Bernie Sanders for President!

by bldudas on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:35:55 AM PDT
BiPM and Kos........Man Talk..... (20+ / 0-)

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Kos: Bill.....I read your book of poetry..."Various And Sundry Odes To Moi...(That's French For 'Me')"......and I thought it was great.

Bill: Really??

Kos: No...Not really....It sucked.

Bill: Oooooo...You....Ooooooo.

by skillet on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:39:12 AM PDT
Cheers to the fog (25+ / 0-)

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last night for holding off for 3/4 of the moonshow. Jeers to the fog this morning creating zero visibility.

Ceiling Cat rules....srsly.

by side pocket on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 05:56:02 AM PDT

You're up early. (23+ / 0-)

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Great view of the blood moon here. Lots of neighbors running around with "The End Is Nigh" signs. I picked up some great garden tools during the looting.

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by Bill in Portland Maine on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:03:19 AM PDT

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Woke up even before (16+ / 0-)

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the automatic coffee maker fired up. C & J is a good substitute but coffee will still be needed soon.

Ceiling Cat rules....srsly.

by side pocket on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:13:08 AM PDT

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LOL (11+ / 0-)

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by flumptytail on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:33:34 AM PDT

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Cheers to you getting to see the show. (17+ / 0-)

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I went out at 15 minutes into the scheduled time, and it was so overcast I couldn't even tell where the moon was. I went to bed.

You can't spell CRAZY without R-AZ.

by rb608 on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:33:32 AM PDT

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Let the chaos begin! cheers (26+ / 0-)

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Saturday was the day. Phoebe was sufficiently recovered from her spaying, and Phineas was over his upper respiratory thing and his coccidiosis; so both were ready for adoption. Five hours of driving to the foster home (Phoebe) and the SPCA (Phineas), and both were safe and in their new home.

We set the carriers down in the den to let our resident senior cat sniff. He was decidedly NOT happy with having other cats in the house.

We set the new guys up in their own room upstairs with food & water & litter and went back downstairs. Cooper cat was still pissed off, hissing at just the smell of the new kitties on our clothes and hands.

Well, it's been two days, and the two new guys are doing much better. The littlest, 8 week old Phoebe, is an absolute sweetheart, and she's very inquisitive and assertive. 4 month old Phineas is still reclusive and skittish, but he's much better than day one. Cooper is still pissed off; but he'll adjust. He has to.

That's been my life for the past 48 hours. Anything else happen?

Cheers to all this morning.

You can't spell CRAZY without R-AZ.

by rb608 on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:05:38 AM PDT

I heard something about the moon, but it was (17+ / 0-)

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probably just a rumour. Oh, and some guy said he's gonna retire from his day job in DC and keep on doing nothing.

Oh, and the Italians invaded. Or was it the Romans?? I can never keep my invasions straight.

Other than that? Pffft. Boring weekend. You know. The usual.

Happy Kittening!

"Live with no excuses and Love with no regrets."

by The Marti on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:47:06 AM PDT

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Romans go the house! (4+ / 0-)

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Or something like that!

Those that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. - Hosea 8:7

by Black Brant on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 11:02:42 AM PDT

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It took a month for the 2 indoor (11+ / 0-)

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female cats to accept the outdoor, adolescent male (he was a big bruiser of a guy) that began hanging around when the weather turned cool.

They'd see him out on the porch or in the yard and would be annoyed with tails twitching and burning glares flying... still separated by glass.

When I began opening the door with just the screen door between the two inside and the outdoor brute (that was sweet as can be but strong as an ox), the hours standing on hind haunches sniffing and hissing out at him had to happen.

I began feeding them at the same time. At first, the indoor ladies were a bit miffed that the ritual of shaking the food bin and filling bowls was altered to include a third bowl, and that he always got his first, just outside the screen door. But they soon accepted the honest reality, "WE STILL GET FREE FOOD!"

And then one day, I switched one tiny detail. The girls got their food first and they rushed to them but didn't notice I then opened the screen door, put his bowl down inside this time, and he came in to eat. They saw he was inside, and that he was eating, but they were becoming used to his presence.

I fed them separated for another month even tho they had begun to socialize. They's all play together, wrestle on the carpet, and take turns chasing the red dot.

They all lived together for a year before little girls from down the way at Halloween spied the male and wanted him (they took home quite the "treat"). But in that year, the females never allowed the male to sleep cuddled with the two of them. It was all they could do to tolerate him on the same couch, in the same sun spot... so long as he was at the other end of it.

Without universal justice, liberty is ragtime on the corner.

by Nebraska68847Dem on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:00:45 AM PDT

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When the machines rises against us (22+ / 0-)

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we will all be assigned a jackhammer to wake us up early early in the morning. Now they're doing whatever they're doing on the other side of the street.

Jeers to a barren garden. All the annuals out, all weeded, and now it decides to rain alllll week. I pity the farmers this year.

Cheers to the Iggles, who finally won a game!

Back in 1974, when the Flyers won the Stanley Cup on a Sunday afternoon, they announced that there would be a parade on Monday. A guy from Dover and I went up on a train, and it was SRO by the time it hit Chester, and people kept getting on and getting on. The train station was the same way, and I don't think we got more than a hundred feet from the train station the whole day. I only saw the backs of peoples' heads. I don't know if we were anywhere near the parade. And in the late afternoon we turned around and went home, very slowly. Later we heard that there were probably two million people there, but the city didn't have an official count because the whole thing was so unexpected. Nowhere to get a drink of water, nowhere for Portosans, no food.

Cheers to Philly for doing it so much better since then - two World Series parades, and now the Pope.

"Republicans are poor losers and worse winners." - My grandmother, sometime in the early 1960s

by escapee on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:05:53 AM PDT
Where Do Baby Pandas Come From? Why Happy Panda... (14+ / 0-)

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Where Do Baby Pandas Come From?
Why Happy Pandas, of course!
http://gawker.com/these-happy-pandas-wont-stop-fucking-1695320019

by koNko on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:16:18 AM PDT
Good morning! (18+ / 0-)

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One and all!

It's a great morning to be alive!!

The better I know people, the more I like my dog

by Thinking Fella on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:34:54 AM PDT
Cheers to being home. (17+ / 0-)

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Of course, there'll be a pile of work waiting for me.

The trouble with normal is, it always gets worse. – Bruce Cockburn

by jck on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 06:38:02 AM PDT
Cheery overcast Monday...which tells you how much (16+ / 0-)

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I enjoyed last night's (alleged) eclipse. I'm sure there'll be another along aaaaany time now! siiiiiiiiiigh

The Poll: You have to guess? srsly? "NO"

Cheers to the Pope. Never thought I'd be able to say that again. I really like this one. He isn't perfect; has a long way to go. Yet...he reminds me of what Popes should be.

Jeers to the entire Gee-Oh-Pee. I wish they'd just implode already and be done.

Jeers to bein' a tad cranky this morning. You'd think I'd forgotten how to make coffee or summpin'!

Cheers to coffee. ahhhhh!!

Cheers to all the kids who play around the kiddie pool, and cheers to the fellas who make it possible.

Have a great day, evvybuddy!

"Live with no excuses and Love with no regrets."

by The Marti on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:00:37 AM PDT

Oh My.....looks like The Marti needs her belleh (11+ / 0-)

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rubbed....;-)

by skillet on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:03:21 AM PDT

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Yesh, pleashe. (12+ / 0-)

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"Live with no excuses and Love with no regrets."

by The Marti on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:06:30 AM PDT

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WAIT! (6+ / 0-)

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Did you see what Pope-dude said about Kim Davis? It's not so good.
http://www.rawstory.com/...

About the GOP civil war... we can all wish it would just go away, but "it's on" now, more than ever.

It's going to get uglier before it gets better and I hope that our nation, nor any other nation, suffers the wrath of cranky ol' crazy folks

Without universal justice, liberty is ragtime on the corner.

by Nebraska68847Dem on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:06:07 AM PDT

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dammit (8+ / 0-)

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His Eminence and I disagree, vehemently. I hope he gets a clue...soon.

"When science and religion disagree, religion is wrong."

I don't want the GOP to go away...I want them to finish imploding so they make room for a "real" political party.

And if you're tryin' to cheer me up....remember I am a wrathful ol' crazy folk! ;-p

"Live with no excuses and Love with no regrets."

by The Marti on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:11:26 AM PDT

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oh, cheer up. (8+ / 0-)

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Paul Ryan could be Veep, ya know... if we didn't work hard a few years ago.

We're still winning!

Without universal justice, liberty is ragtime on the corner.

by Nebraska68847Dem on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:17:35 AM PDT

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He's a chemist, for Gawd's sake, not a scholar of (1+ / 0-)

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the U.S. Constitution, sadly. But it sounds as though he's advocating civil disobedience, so Kimmy can keep on flouting the Constitution and spend time in the slammer for disobeying Court orders.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. B. Franklin

by Observerinvancouver on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 04:56:18 PM PDT

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Hey, he's the pope, not Bill Maher. (4+ / 0-)

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Hey, he's the pope, not Bill Maher.

by Chokingsmoker on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 08:42:02 AM PDT

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Jeers to Actor's equity.... (5+ / 0-)

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Banning Gilbert and Sullivan! Jeez!

by YoursT on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:14:09 AM PDT

Banning youtube gonna be tough....;-) (3+ / 0-)

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by skillet on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:52:47 AM PDT

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"Martyr in a Muu Muu"? Too funny! (11+ / 0-)

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Cheers to Cal being undefeated. Cheers to Jared Goff, who's way better than Kaepernick.

Cheers to Giants rookie Jarrett Parker hitting 3 homeruns in one game the other day. Cheers there's a small glimmer of hope for the Giants. Beat L.A.!!!

Jeers to a hard 9-miler yesterday. Hopefully the 6-miler this a.m. will be easier. Cheers to the prospect of signing up for the Vancouver Marathon.

Cheers to BiPM, CSM, Haley, Fantom, and you. Happy Monday!

by Maudlin on Mon Sep 28, 2015 at 07:26:21 AM PDT

I just checked in and saw this. Let me know if (0+ / 0-)

you want any info. Yeehaw!, said she with fingers crossed. :)

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. B. Franklin

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