Kinda beat this morning. Woke up in the middle of the night, filled with a sense of dread and impending doom, and feeling very anxious. All for no apparent reason (I mean, Granny won’t even be here ’til Wednesday at the earliest). I guess I musta had somebody else’s blues. So, naturally, I couldn’t get back to sleep, and now I’m tired and feeling like crap. If New York State would pass a medical marijuana bill, maybe I could get a decent night’s sleep.
Michael Steele says it’s “inappropriate” for Notre Dame to give Barack Obama an honorary degree. Well who gives a shit what you think, Mikey? You might be Catholic, but you sure don’t look Irish to me (though you know what they say about Irishmen). Why do they continue to report this on the news as “Obama receives heavy criticism” for speaking at Notre Frickin’ Dame? What, from a few mouth-breathing talking heads who’d criticize him if he shat money and killed Osama bin Hidin’ with his bare hands (funny thing is, I swear I could hear one of these protesters yelling “Barack Obama stole my shoe!” as they were throwing him out. :fire: ), and some cabbage patch Catholic chick who said she wasn’t going to her graduation ‘cuz the evil black mooslum babykiller was gonna speak?
Please. I love these high and mighty “moral” people. We used to love hanging out with the Catholic school girls back in the day, ‘cuz there wasn’t much they wouldn’t do once you got a bottle of Giacobazzi into ’em.
On a side note, what’s the big deal about an “honorary” degree anyway? I mean, it isn’t worth anything, is it? Especially one from Notre Dame (or ASU, for that matter). The shit people find to get their panties in a knot over (while the rest of the world is turning to shit around them) is beyond me.
Oh well, on to more important things. A good lacrosse weekend for Central New York. As you may recall, the local community college took both the men’s and women’s JUCO national championships. This weekend, Cortland College advanced to the Division III title game at Foxborough next Sunday. LeMoyne College will be there as well, representing us in the Division II championship game the same day. And both Cornell and Syracuse advanced to the Final Four (Cornell, having beaten Princeton, will face #1 seed Virginia on Saturday, while #2 Syracuse – who easily beat Maryland, which kicked the crap out of Notre Dame because God hates them – will face #3 Duke). So, we could have an all-CNY championship game on Memorial Day (I’m taking up a collection to send a stripper over to the Duke palyers’ hotel on Friday night, if anybody’s interested).
Thanks for the Maron report Vernon,,, that was superb :nod:
Pj’s sandbox? :pup: That explains the kitty turds that rise to the surface every so often. :cat: I hope your kitties are behaving Pj.
An example of hubris:
Mayor Bloomberg thinks President Obama did a great job during his first 100 days – largely because he followed a Bloomberg-like approach to governing
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/18/2009-05-18_prez_is_doing_great__by_copying_me_bloom_tells_mag.html#ixzz0FsRyZ5Ns&B
Interesting. I copied the sentence above from the NY Daily News and when I pasted it the link was included. Saved me a step.
Does anyone know what the tail on a kite does for the kite?
A tail provides “drag.” The tail kind of catches the wind. The air moving through the tail yanks the bottom of the kite in the direction that the wind is blowing, so that the sail part of the kite is always pointed into the wind.
Picture a windmill. You want the blades of the windmill to always face into the wind. So, you put a tail on the end of it, and when the wind changes direction, it pushes the tail and turns the blades back into the wind.
Without a tail, a kite will kind of flop back and forth, wouldn’t really fly, and would probably even start spinning into a death spiral.
This has been a good experience for the cats, to realize that not everybody actually cares whether they eat their food. They don’t eat it, I cover it up to keep it moist. They yammer for food, I uncover it. They eat it, they might get more. They don’t and I cover it back up again.
And, as a bonus, you don’t have to clean the litter box as much.
Thank you, PJ. That’s a really clear explanation…about the kite, not the cats.
I thought the point of having cats was learning to serve an ego and presence bigger than one’s own. At least that’s what my cats say.
People tend to anthropomorphise cats too much. For instance, what people ascribe to “aloofness” is really just “vacancy.”
The cats I’ve known are not aloof. They care about whatever they wish to care about. They usually don’t care what anyone else thinks, and if they do care, they will find a way to let you know it. Cats are very good at getting even.
You should probably apologize to your cats. Or sleep with your door locked.
Nice Lincoln photos
Oh, I like the cats, but I always sleep with the door closed, because the cats are too annoying to have around at night. They jump off the window sills and the headboard and land on me or one of the dogs. We don’t need to get the dogs all worked up when they’re sleeping like the good little angels they are.
Cats are like whiny, destructive houseplants.
If the crazy lady next door isn’t around, I like to let them out at night. Of course then they yammer to get in until you get up and open the door, and then they don’t remember ever seeing you or the inside of the house before, so they won’t come in. Not because they’re malicious. Just ‘cuz they’re dumb.
They whine for food when they have food. So you go and make some noise involving the food bowl, and then they eat it. They’re just too stupid to actually recognize that there’s food in the bowl until you rattle it.
We had one cat that was almost as smart as a dog. He was a great cat. Kept the other cats in line, too. I miss him; he was my little buddy (he wasn’t all that little though).
:billcat: :cat: oy what did I start? A cat rant?
I’ve had about all the poop I can stand…. :billcat: :tongue:
:doh:
Something for Granny to think about.
Many Asian countries are consuming rat meat as a less expensive and more plentiful alternative to pork. Cambodia villagers who gather the rodents have developed an extensive trade of rat meat with their neighboring Vietnamese, reports China Daily.
Vietnam has become the main importer of Cambodia’s rats with 50 tons of rats being imported through the checkpoints along the border everyday, local media reported on Friday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/18/cambodias-rat-trade-with_n_204742.html
Palemale and his ilk think they’re tasty.
I, too, woke up at 2 AM. Not because of a bad dream but because Lola had figured out how to open the catch on her crate and she came to say hello with a big lick and a lot of puppy running around. I had only been using one of the locks, now I have to use both. I hope that lasts for a while.
And in the
department:
This is from a new article in the New Yorker about the fascist John Roberts. This is one reason why I can’t stand republicans. They hate humans.
[emphasis added]
PS Cats should only live outside. Leaving poop in litter boxes is uncivilized. Doggies Rule (my name notwithstanding). :pup:
PPS It is mighty disconcerting to be talking to your husband on a satellite phone and hear artillery fire in the background. Then he says, in reply to the question of what’s that, “Oh, there’s a camp nearby under attack .” :billcat:
vernon,
thanks for the comedy club report on MM and JG
Folks, I was really fortunate to see those shows and wish you could have all been there with me. I can’t imagine anything that could have made it better. If I ever win the lottery, we’ll figure out a way to do it.
Marc: “Wasn’t Jayne Mansfield the one that got decapitated?”
later
Marc: “[] says that Mansfield wasn’t decapitated. They found her wig and it looked like she was decapitated”
Brendan: “So she was scalped?”
vernon got a mention on the post-show chat
Yeah, WHT, I just heard that a few minutes ago. Funny. I don’t know who ratted me out (probably Alice) but the MSBlog got mentioned as well.
LaVey, Faux Satanist