Interloper 17 April 2011
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Fife Scotland: This inquisitive dog was left stunned when a playful young seal gave him a friendly slap on the cheek after he bounded into the sea during a game of fetch. The seal patted the boxer on the face during the encounter after he chased a tennis ball that had been thrown into the ocean by his owner. The young dog found the baby seal with its head poking out the water and instead of retrieving his ball, he circled his intriguing discovery. [Lynn Morris/Solent]
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More awesome non-human animals!
Thanks, M.!
wow, that’s as sweet as the shots of the, presumed to be a goner, husky, with the polar bear.
;0)
(Husky and Polar Bear ;0) )
The fellahs are fighting over Amy Goodman again.
you mean the post over at IOZ?
Yeah obviously I agree with the point about scratch a lefty find a liberal, but Amy is the wrong target. She really is.
Sums it up concisely.
yeah – and there’s been a nasty little thread over at SMBIVA about fear of female sexuality. Kind of a mini gang bang. ms-x alone for about 45 comments (For wahtever reason I cannot comment there, it has been raised with them, and they just kind of throw their hands up, and so, I gave up a couple, three years ago)…
All I can say about Amy is she is not a fluid writer, it is always a bit plodding. But hardly a sin.
I’ll check it out. I’ve never been able to comment at SMBIVA for navigating that fucking “Hillary’s middle name ? humor us thing”. I’ve tried repeatedly and just gave up and frankly didn’t give a damn enough to shoot off an email to ask.
Hmm, I see now it’s a post from their email list My take is pretty much this: scratch a man, you find misogyny and that’s not all the habitually self flagellating male. That’s the thing in a nutshell. A nutshell BTW that we men can’t seem to shake without wondering at one time or other if it is relatively on the small side.
Yay ms xeno! at 12:26 PM on April 16th (the comment link doesn’t seem to direct to the comment):
I side with the women.
Unless they take the position it’s a human issue.
Then I’d be quick to agree right after they say so.
i am catching on slowly: IOZ did that twice?
Gee.
Here is a comment to that new thread (now I have to go read the dmaned post)
God I love dogs.
Thanks for thoughts. I’ll get to see how good managed health is. Major surgery might be unavoidable. Tomorrow I’ll know more. So sick of being sick.
Oh, good luck with it all! I have to take kid the elder in for surgery tomorrow to get the rods removed from his leg and some bone injected into his cyst…I am trying to stay calm but am dreading it all and just want it to be over and have him back here at home resting comfortably in his bed!!
I’ll be thinking about you!
I had not been keeping up with anyone else.
Hope all goes well for your child. I know when I had plates and screws removed on my ankle, it was not near as bad as going in. Good wishes to you and yours.
Thanks, m! Much appreciated! The stupid hospital called this morning (his surgery is scheduled for tomorrow a.m., have to be there at 5:30) and informed me that I would need to bring $542.75 for a “time of service” payment.
Needless to say, I was livid. This surgery has been scheduled for months and they wait until 19 hours beforehand to tell me that I need too bring in the equivalent of 40% of my monthly salary!!I’m bringing them $100.
This surgery is going to cost about $3000 OUT OF POCKET…why in the fucking hell do we have insurance, that’s what I want to know. I hate hate hate this stupid country.
and informed me that I would need to bring $542.75 for a “time of service” payment.
ugh! First I heard of that one. I bet it is or will be in increasing use….
Yep. Just got a call from the anesthesiologist’s office as well. They too want “time of service” payment. The lady said that they would just send me a bill if I didn’t bring any $$ with me to the hospital….
I’m bringing $100 cash. They can take it or leave it. Then, I am going to focus on my kid and my kid only, until I have him safely back home.
Christ. I’m a wreck right now.
The lady said that they would just send me a bill if I didn’t bring any $$ with me to the hospital….
Well don’t sweat that one, at least.
Trying not to sweat any of it — the money part anyway — just want to get my kid in taken care of and out…..deep breaths.
Hope all goes well for you. All of them accept payment plans. Give minimum up front.
So it goes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13090685
Greece to privatise 50bn euros of state assets
Anyone who was notified that their personal data was compromised due to the Epsilon Data Breach, may want to read this: As feared: cybercriminals prey on Epsilon data breach victims – In March 30 data breach, hackers stole email databases of dozens of major U.S. companies
They hacked Walgreens, who did send me an email a couple of weeks ago…
Well, I am well and duly screwed…there was that last month AND the state of Texas managed to expose 3 databases from the Texas Workforce Commission (our unemployment office) and both of the state’s retirement/pension funds. What is scarier to me about my TWC info. being out there is that those fuckers have my banking information and the boys’ info, as well as my name and social….
What a fucked up mess.
Oh but Walgreens assured me, they did! that nothing private was compromised!!
as if there is anything in my Walgreen’s file that is NOT private. (Or should be, that is!)
geesh. Last I remember him he slunk off the stage in Iraq, post Abu Ghraib… a whipping boy for a nightmare, but still, he looked whipped.
Oh, yip-fucking-pie!
yeah and he is such a peach! The Dems recruited him, it seems.
love that line “not implicated”. Previous to the disclosures he had been up for a 4th star, all but assured. Soon he was talked of derisively as “a battlefield command”. The war had conferred status on him that other eras would not.
Gotta lvoe how complicated we are….
Classic. Predictable.
No plan but capitulation.
And jusst a few years ago, the Dems were bellowing that the R party was diminished to a mere regional party: The South.
Oh get real.
Hoffman has a new piece up a t Cpunch:
hmm Dow off 212
Rating companies not co-operating. Or just to scare the rethugs.
Yes I saw S&P’s downgrade. Fwiw.
This smacks of a setup. S&P ratings (remember how good they were at rating AIG, Lehman, etc) don’t mean S*&%. I think somebody either in or outside decided this is how they will lobby for more deficit reduction.
I think it’s all to build pressure to cut social security, medicare and medicaid.
That makes sense…
Yep, the money is all fleeing to Hedge Funds.
… and other select fixers’ vaults, Bill Daley.
Oh Yes, that familiar sucking sound:
Citigroup Net Falls 32%
And BoA last week? Wait for it –
DOWN 36% AND they fired their CFO.
LOSERS. LOL.
BUT! – Dear God, why doesn’t the Obby Admin just trot out a shirtless Charlie Sheen for all the WINNING around, I simply don’t know.
William Daley Made $8.7 Million from JPMorgan Last Year
What a coincidence! What Good Luck with JP! AND
Yes time for the looters to nab the last remnants in bank. Depositers, poor saps, get @ 2%: so for some retiree needing 20k a year they need pushing a million liquid. Ahem, in bank. Or Treasuries. Another coupla WINNERS.
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So. Against Barry’s Ooga Booga and propaganda machine?
Oh, at this rate, the Republicans could run ANYBODY.
Fuckin ANYBODY.
AND feature speakers at their 2012 National convention like a beefy oiled Limbaugh in loincloth butterdipping lobster chunks then flicked to a strait-jacketed Beck brought onstage by leash, all presented with gameshow hostess handwaves and sporadic assault rifle fire from Bachmann and Palin in conservative one-piece black-leather-yet-swastika-emblazoned swimwear.
Henh – …Obama?
{ mcat}
The National Foundling?
Oh Obby’s in trouble. LOL.
Bucked off like a lawyer-turned-rodeo-clown.
So. Against Barry’s Ooga Booga and propaganda machine?
Soooooo… is that anything like Silvio’s Bunga-Bunga stuff????????
I have no idea if he is shoe horned in or allowed to fall. I do think if he goes in, the R plan something along the lines of Clinton Second Admin version 2.0.
Destroyed in place.
As collaboratonist as the Democrats are, they never appreciate the R taste for full frontal take down.
It’s all so Historic and Bunga-Bunga now.
At an all-time Bunga-Bunga High.
And I never thought it could have happened without
President Edwards and Senators Specter and Kennedy-Schlossberg.
And all of them so special
We jsut had a little earthquake.
I felt a tiny tiny one a little after 12 Noon, so I ahve been waiting…
As soon as they give a Richter magnitude….
3.8 a short way South of here…
Christian protesters destroy controversial Andres Serrano art “Piss Christ”
I saw film today of the conservative Catholics marching … there ws a counter protest.
And even more scary is some of the religious moves being made in Hungary. yikes.
Deutsche Welle
fucking fundies on the march everywhere
It is…
9 Things The Rich Don’t Want You To Know About Taxes
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/
Seems a bit more active than usual.
In case either brinn or mattes drops in later, I hope everything went as well as it could.
what marisa said.
New
LINK
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