you're an evil kitty! O_o wow you are crazy. your sole purpose is to rule the world but no one can really take you seriously. i dont blame them

^^

o_O What weird creature are you? O_o
from a sweet and somewhat unexpected Llama. Not one of these, though

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1 LOL> that is one funny cat

Posted by: Elizabeth at February 01, 2006 12:03 PM (ceeh7)

2 wow your a lemur! you completly RAWK! ^^ you love to be completly weird and just in general you freak people out O_o your particular species of lemur is the ring tailed lemur.

Posted by: vw bug at February 01, 2006 05:40 PM (OD3ab)

3 Wow! It's.... uh.... kinda cute!! Yeah, that's it... cute. ::hopeful grin while backing away::

Posted by: Richmond at February 01, 2006 06:06 PM (e8QFP)

4 soooo...you're a satanic cat....interesting... No wonder you are such good friends with Contagion!

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Guess who has the #1 record in the NHL so far this year (hint: see the sidebar, or below)

more...

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From the Ass.Press, via Yahoo!:

"A former postal worker who had been put on medical leave for psychological problems shot five people to death at a huge mail-processing center and then killed herself in what was believed to be the nation's deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out by a woman.

The attack Monday night was also the biggest bloodbath at a U.S. postal installation since a massacre 20 years ago helped give rise to the term "going postal.""

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Harvey is really my (blog)father and he won't recognize me otherwise.

Quote: "That's not MY nose..."

My mama and my brothers and sisters love me and accept me, (blog)Dad, so why won't you?  Please?

Don't leave me out here in the cold.  It's so lonely and scary... *sniff, sniff*...

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1 There's no whining in . . . Aw hell! I accept you too!

Posted by: oddybobo at January 31, 2006 01:27 PM (6Gm0j)

2 Wait, who are you? *snicker*

Posted by: Contagion at January 31, 2006 02:13 PM (e8b4J)

3 I still love you! I think you and Laughing Wolf need to pool your campaign resources. He seems to be having familial issues as well.

Posted by: Ith at January 31, 2006 03:07 PM (+T0G3)

4 Come and sit by me!! I have wine and chocolate....

Posted by: Richmond at January 31, 2006 04:27 PM (e8QFP)

5 Looks like you're all vouched up. Just need the quote & tartan in the sidebar...

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Samuel A. Alito, Jr. was confirmed as the 110th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States this morning by a vote of 58-42.

He was subsequently sworn in and will make his debut as Associate Justice at tonight's State of the Union Address.

It's nice when good things happen in spite of a**holes, don't you think?

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So I was tooling down the freeway to work this morning when the traffic began to stop rather unexpectedly in front of me. I quickly started flipping AM stations to find one that might tell me what the traffic situation in front of me was, and somehow I ended up on KFI. Which at 10:15 AM is airing Rush Limbaugh.

For the record, while I used to be quite the Rush fan, I haven't listened to him since Clinton was in his first term. I honestly can't stand him, and most days I would have just changed the channel again, but today he said something that caught my attention.

Paraphrasing here, he said that in the 18 years he's been doing the broadcast, every crazy joke, satire, or parody of the Democrats that he has come up with, they have done on their own, and that after last night, he doesn't see how he can parody them anymore. The jokes it seems, are already being lived by the loonies on the left.

Explaining himself further, El Rushbo cited two things: first, tonight's planned demonstration outside the capital wherein a bunch of idiots (my word here, I believe he called them "60's retreads") plan to stand outside the building during the SOTU speech tonight and bang pots and pans together in an effort to drown out the noise inside the building.

As if. Can you just imagine the Usual Suspects (ELF, ANSWER, NOW, PETA, Code Pinkos, NARAL, et al) standing out there in the cold banging pots and pans together like a bunch of toddlers on crack? How many of them do you think will forget to bring earplugs and cause themselves permanent damage? How do they plan on holding their protest signs with pots in both hands? Or will they "work together" and hold the pots in one hand, banging them against each other's pots, holding their signs of love and peace in the other hand?

Here's the actual website announcing the protest. You too can join in, as these events will be taking place around the country tonight... Like they can hear the noise in DC from Bisbee, Arizona of all places.

The other thing Rush referred to was this article by Dana Milbank of the WaPo. (reg. req. go to bugmenot)

The article is entitled "Tasting Victory, Liberals Instead Have a Food Fight". Here's just a taste:

"Right on cue, liberal activists including Cindy Sheehan and Ramsey Clark gathered yesterday at the Busboys & Poets restaurant and bookshop at 14th and V streets NW for what they billed as a forum on "The Impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney." But the participants, while charging the administration with "crimes against humanity," a "war of aggression" and even "the supreme international crime," inevitably turned their wrath on congressional Democrats, whom they regarded as a bunch of wimps.

"Does the Democratic Party want to continue to exist or does it want to ignore what 85 percent of its supporters want?" demanded David Swanson, a labor union official who runs "Impeach PAC" and other efforts to remove Bush from office. Singling out Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid (Nev.) for derision, Swanson said that Democrats who do the right thing "are exceptions.""

Later on, they discussed ways to remove the President from office:

"After the participants made their urgent calls for impeachment proceedings, John Bruhns, identifying himself as an antiwar Iraq veteran, rose for a clarification. If Democrats don't first "gain control of one of the houses" of Congress, he wondered, "how else can we impeach this monster?"

Swanson had a ready brushoff for Democrats who won't pursue impeachment because they're in the minority: "Just go home if you're going to talk that way." Offering the lessons of 1994, he said: "The way the Republicans got the majority was not by being scared. . . . It was by going out and speaking on behalf of their base and letting themselves be called radicals."

Bruhns, wearing a crew cut and business suit, disagreed. Somebody in the audience called for him to "shut up."

"They didn't answer my question," Bruhns protested after the exchange ended. "How do you get impeachment if you don't win elections? I'm being practical."

...

"Sheehan, in a sweet voice, condemned the administration's agenda "to spread the cancer of empire."

The first questioner, getting into the spirit of the forum, declared of the administration: "These criminals and gangsters, thugs as I regard them, I believe engineered 9/11."

Many in the crowd applauded. But others were skeptical. "I've heard a lot about accountability" from the panel, said one questioner. "Seems to me the first opportunity we had for accountability was in the last election."

"Elections," moderator Zeese replied, "are not the determining factor.""

If I was a Democrat today, I'd be ashamed. Sincerely. If the rants of Kerry and Kennedy yesterday weren't evidence enough, banging pots and an almost institutional inability to do simple addition (not enough votes!) brings me to the conclusion that the Democratic party leadership are nothing more than a bunch of toddlers.

Let's see: Whiny? Check. Unable to add numbers? Check. Irrational sense that their way is the only way, even when it's clearly impossible? Check. A belief that increased volume equates to increased chance of getting their way? Check.

I can't wait to see what childish stunts they pull tonight inside the Capital, too.

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Ted Kennedy is many things: a liar, a drunk, a blowhard, perhaps even a murderer, but I never knew he was a stand-up comedian until today.

Kennedy's rant on the Senate floor against Sam Alito was a treasure to behold. You can see the Senator puffing and blowing here.

I swear, the only reason I left it on C-SPAN2 is that I thought he was going to keel over from a heart attack right there on the Senate floor.

All that effort, and cloture passed with 72 votes. Suck it Ted and Johnny. I'm sure Massachussetts is very proud of you.

Michelle Malkin, as always, has more.

Welcome visitors from Expose the Left! Feel free to click around, and come back often if you like what you see.

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One more before I go try to take a nap, Ben Stein takes on Joel Stein.

I knew there was a reason I liked this guy.

h/t Greyhawk

PS Watching C-SPAN 2 right now, and for the record, John Kerry is a blowhard who has ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE what the fuck he is talking about. Flip Flop alert!

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I'm feeling rotten.

All this weekend I was dealing with an RA flare, and as soon as I get better (last night) I must have eaten something that was bad. After spending most of the late evening dealing with various stomach-related issues, I decided it was best to nurse my poor, painful tummy and stay home and finish correcting HW and write an exam for the class I'm teaching.

However, if you insist on something interesting to read, try these non-political gems:

Bou wraps up the school carnival

Ith's resident office mouse is a smartie

Margi writes Peanut's birth story

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Glenn links to this interesting post at Dr. Helen's site about Grandparents who don't have time to grandparent, based on this article. He asks if these are the same parents who were too busy to be parents, and Dr. Helen wonders if the lack of relationship between children and the extended family keeps them from understanding close human interactions or makes them believe that love is really only about material things. The answer is: well, DUH.

I can just see these women who don't want to be Grandma. Twenty years ago, these were the self-obsessed, career driven mothers of my friends. Trying to be there for the after-school pick up and the PTA, but not worrying overly much if the kids had to walk home or the PTA brownies came from the grocery store. Too busy with their own lives to consider that the "safe" neighborhood the kids walked home through was still dangerous after dark, that the grocery store brownies told all the other kids that you didn't really care, that you were too busy for your kid.

And Hell Yes, we made fun of those kids.

The 80s was all about the Superwoman. Could Mom work outside the home and still have a clean house and take care of the kids? The consensus was that something had to give. For a lot of these women, it was the precious moments with their kids, the small kindnesses that mean so much, and the closeness that the rest of us shared with our moms. Yet they fooled themselves that because the house was clean and the kids were doing well in school that they could have it all.

Somehow it was never important to be there, to make time. And now that their children are parents, these now grown-up children realize what they missed, and they want that for their own children. So they make time, they skip meetings and make brownies, they ask Grandma and Grandpa to spend time with the kids, and they are still disappointed.

But it's more than that. Being Grandma is being old. Hell, most of our grandmothers were at least in their 70s. For the most part, they weren't active, independently wealthy, and still working in their chosen career. Our grandmas were cooks and knitters and nurturers, with their silver hair and never ending fount of kleenex and hard candies. Today's grandmas are tech-saavy, go to work every morning, and command respect outside the home. If you were a balls-to-the-wall coroporate type, would you want to be called ANYTHING that brings to mind a blue haired woman in a rocker?

And being Grandma is an imposition. After all, it wasn't their choice to have babies, toddlers, and children around again. Their kids did this to them. The author of the article even says this in reference to her grandchildren:

Look, I'd love to nip over and whisper secrets into 1-month-old Maggie's ears, or to dress 2-year-old Ryan in the black leather jacket I bought her recently and take her to look for late blackberries in Golden Gate Park on my bike (with its deluxe new kid seat). But I have a job. I'm a reporter, I have two books to write, a husband who wants to go to France, and I just bought an investment property in Portland, Oregon. I love my grandchildren, but being a grandmother got added to my to-do list.
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Added to her to-do list. As if she only is Grandma because she has to be. As if she never expected her own children to grow up and have children of their own. Maybe she just doesn't see her own children as self-actualized individuals with lives and loves of their own. Or maybe she didn't want her children to be tied down the way she was. Another Grandma in the article is quoted as saying (paraphrasing here) that while she loves her grandbabies and wants to be a part of their lives, she's not willing to give up her life to deal with them.

If being a grandma is so damn inconvenient, it's a wonder some of the parents of these grandkids were even born so their moms could be grandmas. Hell, Roe has been the law of the land for more than 30 years.

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Peanut's Home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I could really give two shits about this whole Google in China brouhaha.

You can have my Gmail account when you pry the keyboard from my cold dead fingers.

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1 Thank God it's not just me! I feel better now.

Posted by: Stingflower at January 27, 2006 03:03 PM (a6pw5)

2 Nothing to do with China, but I never got into using my gmail account. It's just one more languishing free email address I'm not sure it's even still active considering how long it's been since I logged on.

Posted by: Ith at January 27, 2006 03:28 PM (+T0G3)

3 Yes, it's active. That was one of the ways they distinguished themselves from the others.

Posted by: Jay at January 27, 2006 05:00 PM (NxYzY)

4 LOL! I've not stopped using my gmail account either.

Posted by: vw bug at January 27, 2006 06:13 PM (k+jIa)

5 Now, now, when it comes to search engines, you know that Gigablast is beckoning... And the only reason I got a GMail account is so I could chat on Google Talk, which it then turned out nobody else I know has. For my everyday email needs I use Bluebottle, which has many nifty features including nigh-daily unexplained service outages which can last for hours at a time... Just in case you wanted to know why you were wise to go with GMail instead...

Posted by: Paul Burgess at January 28, 2006 06:04 AM (7EVyU)

6 I don't use google that often, I don't have a gmail account, I could care less.

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That the fine folks at Target.com rule.  The shipping estimate for my end tables was next Monday, and they arrived today.

When we bought the coffee table we had no need for the end tables, so now we have a beat up coffee table and two matching brand new end tables.... Oh well.

Yay!

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If only to say he'll be back soon....  Tease!

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You know, except for that whole being a GIRL thing, I could agree with this one:

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 95% Green Lantern 65% Robin 60% Supergirl 60% Superman 60% Wonder Woman 55% Hulk 55% Iron Man 50% Catwoman 40% The Flash 35% Batman 20%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

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1 And I was almost Spidey... Mmmmm -- Tobey Maguire with muscles...

Posted by: Richmond at January 26, 2006 05:41 PM (e8QFP)

2 I'm Green Lantern. The old one. not the original. The second one. Who went crazy. Destroyed the universe. Likes to one punch people. Cause he's Hal Jordan. I wanted to be the cool, new Green Lantern. Or maybe Batman. All the kids like Batman

Posted by: Bill at January 26, 2006 10:15 PM (ujJj1)

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Not that any of you care, but my first multi-million dollar grant application is going out the door this afternoon.  Well, ok, not mine alone, but I am Co-PI.  Holy Crap!

Damn I feel old.  This time last year I was writing my thesis.....

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Note how many of these are ties.....  Interestingly the quiz tie-breaker didn't have a choice for Millennium Falcon.  As you all know, I'd hang out with Han and Chewie any day.

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Two two of my favorite bloggers, Matty O'Blackfive, and Robbo Llamabutcher!

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Or does the new "Clorox Anywhere Spray" commercial creep you out too?  I mean the woman is spraying the sh*t on clean dishes and FOOD for chrissakes!  On food!  Even their website advertises that you can safely spray this crap on/near your food.

Umm, no.  I don't want to buy your fine product, I'm too busy rewashing all my produce at the moment.  Ewww!

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Ok, so somehow I have f*cked up firefox, and now instead of it opening popup type windows normal sized (like comment windows), they all open up narrow and unresizable.

I figured out how to make it allow me to manually resize the too-small windows, thanks to Mozilla, but I have no idea how to make it work right in the first place. I would prefer not to have to resize the stoopid things every time they open.

This only happens in MY Firefox profile, not my husband's or the dummy one I set up in the process of troubleshooting.

Any ideas? I know many of you are much bigger computer geeks than I am....

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