Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Happy New Year, Ricochet.
My New Year resolutions are:
1. To be kinder and more emollient to my enemies, to feel their pain and generally try harder to empathize with their position, while never resorting to cheap insults and always radiating peace and love. (Nah. Just kidding).
2. To write and podcast more often for Ricochet, including doing that Albums of 2012 podcast which I promised for BlueYeti but still haven't got round to yet.
3. To spread messages of positivity and cheer. Yeah, right. How possible is that looking after the Boehner/Ryan surrender? Still, I'm doing my best. That's why I've posted a picture of our new pet. She is an extremely rare Carpathian Mountain Otter (melanistic variant) and her name is Daisy. In the picture she is playing with my brother's dog Berry, who is a lurcher or some such.
Oh, and thanks for asking how my Christmas was. Most of it was spent clearing up small puddles.
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May '10
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Carpathian, eh? You have been indulging in politics too long when you start adopting bloodsuckers.
May '12
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
And I suppose your brother likes ugly dogs?
Mar '11
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
I think if we all resolve to be less glad in suffering fools, the world would be a better place. At least our blood pressure would go down.
This doesn't fall under the suffering fools part, but please indulge the airing of a pet peeve:
"Who" should only be used to describe people. There, I feel better already.
Mar '11
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Elections have consequences, I guess.
I think we are in need of a new Leader of the House - the position does not require natural-born US citizenship, I think.
No, I'm not suggesting Mr Cameron - although even he would raise the bar off the floor.
Apr '11
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Awe.. it's so cute.
Mar '12
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
They are worth every puddle.
Nov '11
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Illiniguy: I think if we all resolve to be less glad in suffering fools, the world would be a better place. At least our blood pressure would go down.
This doesn't fall under the suffering fools part, but please indulge the airing of a pet peeve:
"Who" should only be used to describe people. There, I feel better already. · 10 minutes ago
I'm pretty sure dogs are now in the "who" category. Else why would my neighborhood aol internet news service publish a story on the most popular names for dogs this year? More seriously, I'm willing to give in to James on this one, because some dogs (typically one's own) really are a "who."
May '10
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
As usual, generally rational, "best you can get under the applicable circumstances" agreements are denigrated by tax absolutists.
The British Grover.
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Duane Oyen: As usual, generally rational, "best you can get under the applicable circumstances" agreements are denigrated by tax absolutists.
The British Grover. · 18 minutes ago
The British Grover? You say it like that's a bad thing.
Aug '12
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Illiniguy: I think if we all resolve to be less glad in suffering fools, the world would be a better place. At least our blood pressure would go down.
This doesn't fall under the suffering fools part, but please indulge the airing of a pet peeve:
"Who" should only be used to describe people. There, I feel better already. · 1 hour ago
I don't know about you and yours, but our dogs are people.
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Nice doggie!
As for the surrender, I wouldn't blame Boehner, I think he did the best he could playing a bad hand. The original sin was making the Bush tax cuts temporary (why? why? why?). And then the ridiculous debt deal that set up the "fiscal cliff" in the first place (not sure how much Boehner is to blame for that). And then the fact that the GOP failed to win either the White House or the Senate, meaning that we had limited leverage. Under those circumstances, Plan B was about as good as Boehner could hope for -- even Grover, the American Grover, held his nose and blessed Plan B.
Of course, America is still in danger. Which is why we need Ricochet!
Oct '12
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
James Delingpole
Duane Oyen: As usual, generally rational, "best you can get under the applicable circumstances" agreements are denigrated by tax absolutists.
The British Grover. · 18 minutes ago
The British Grover? You say it like that's a bad thing. · 1 hour ago
Mr. Oyen also thinks being a "taxophobe" is a bad thing.
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Re resoultion #2: I am very much in favor.
Re the new pet, do I understand that it's an actual otter? And not a dog? And that you're not making this up?
Apr '11
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Adam Freedman:
The original sin was making the Bush tax cuts temporary (why? why? why?).
To get them passed by "Reconciliation" rather than through the normal means.
May '12
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Perhaps there is some Otter explanation that will clear up the confusion.
That might explain why the puppy likes to eat Oyster in the Half-Shell
Peter Robinson: Re resoultion #2: I amvery much in favor.
Re the new pet, do I understand that it's an actual otter? And not a dog? And that you're not making this up? · 1 hour ago
Apr '11
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Extremely rare, indeed. The only one on the Internet. Or anywhere else, I dare say. Unless she's a labradoodle, or some such.
As for the "who/which" pseudopedantry: Who made that rule? "Our Father, Which art in Heaven"?
Edited on January 2, 2013 at 11:27pmMay '10
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iDad
James Delingpole
Duane Oyen: As usual, generally rational, "best you can get under the applicable circumstances" agreements are denigrated by tax absolutists.
The British Grover. · 18 minutes ago
The British Grover? You say it like that's a bad thing. · 1 hour ago
Mr. Oyen also thinks being a "taxophobe" is a bad thing. · 2 hours ago
Well, James, high as my regard is for you, and as much as I enjoy your podcasts, I think that Grover Norquist is an essential counterweight to taxophiles, but his role is more one of an advocate rather than anything vaguely resembling a sound representative of public policy. The perfect example was his objection to the expiration of the wind energy credit, calling that a "tax increase". With friends like that, even for wind enthusiasts such as yourself (that description was my feeble attempt at irony), who needs enemies?
Our biggest problem in government, generally, is lack of sane adults populating the asylum. The swing voters voted, and we don't get to call the shots. You have to be for more than stuffing fingers in our ears, getting red in the face, and screaming "NONONONONO" non-stop.
Government is hard.
May '12
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
I hear Delingpole does a mean cover of Just The Two Of Us.
And can leap over Windmills in a single bound.
James Delingpole
Duane Oyen: As usual, generally rational, "best you can get under the applicable circumstances" agreements are denigrated by tax absolutists.
The British Grover. · 18 minutes ago
The British Grover? You say it like that's a bad thing. · 4 hours ago
Mar '11
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
Grendel
As for the "who/which" pseudopedantry: Who made that rule? "Our Father, Which art in Heaven"? · 46 minutes ago
Edited 27 minutes ago
Miss Bratton in 3rd grade made that rule, and with what she put us through to learn it, that was good enough for me.
May '12
Re: Republicans Cave, America Is Toast - So Here's a Picture of a Cute Doggie
You mean this Miss Bratton?
June Marlowe was born Gisela Valaria Goetten of German parents in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She was a prolific actress in silent films during the 1920s, appearing in films opposite John Barrymore and Rin Tin Tin.
Illiniguy
Grendel
As for the "who/which" pseudopedantry: Who made that rule? "Our Father, Which art in Heaven"? · 46 minutes ago
Edited 27 minutes ago
Miss Bratton in 3rd grade made that rule, and with what she put us through to learn it, that was good enough for me. · 0 minutes ago