The left seems by turns both anxious and dispirited these days,lp . Maybe it's a suspicion that Hilary/Biden/fill-in-the-blank don't have the special something that's helped that other lawyer rise above his record (though, 'survive' might be a better word). Maybe it's a growing realization that Pelosi's surgeon is using way, way, too long a needle for the botox and the impairment may be permanent by now.
Could just be a lack of fiber, though.
You ought to thank your mom's dog for getting you up, though. A coon dog would be more likely to let you wet the bed and then nip your butt in the morning.
Darn near implausible that you're not a sales rep for those things, lp. Besides, it might just be cheaper to show him how to turn the filtered water dispenser on... he's done a passable gargoyle imitation on the bar above it, ever since my wife started indulging his little obsession with it.
Collect enough pets and you're bound to find a few really entertaining ones, and we're up to six cats at the moment. The dog one, Burt, and his brother Bandit, might as well have grown up in a frat house for how they behave. It's a perfect fit but my wife sunk the plan to rechristian them Bluto and Daniel Simpson Day.
They'll high-five each other when they hear you're a certified tuna fetching flunkey, sls.
if I didn't give them wet food at 2 pm, I am afraid the girl cat would disown us. The other two might get over it about the delay.
one of the boy cats will attack our feet while we sleep when he wants to play, or eat. Like now. I am on vacation fir another week and not adhering to my normal routine, and this, frankly is not acceptable.
I have discovered that Labradors and Golden Retrievers, no longer stick their snouts in the places that they love most. Don't know about catahoulas?
I also kinda like disruptive technologies. These things are going to put Mr Wipple out of business, save the spotted owl, and reduce the number of times we had to pump out the septic. Being clean and good are commendable according to DW.
Tuna, it's fresh tuna season in OR.
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No, you can keep your cat, cat. At least my doggies are too fat to jump very far. God help us if they could jump up to the sink. And samurai, wet tuna? What if you dared to feed that cat the dry stuff?
Good luck on your renovation, lp. Maybe you can file a police report and at least get some satisfaction, if not your money.
Actually bought a new suit for the funerals (get to an age and you find you know a lot of people in poor health) but am finding solace in the $1000 dollar cat we have. The one that: drinks from the toilet, fetches toys (like a marine assaulting a japanese machine gun nest) and drops them at your feet, eats tortillas out of the bag, and tries to pull thawing whole chickens out of the sink.
New development on DW home renovation. Don't know all the details and don't really want to know; The blame of crewmember stealing equipment is now false. Contractor stole the equipment & tools. GF of contractor, did have a DMV job but lost it in a fraud with DMV. Both are nowhere to be found. DW has come to the realization that the money is gone and further money is needed to complete the job. I am glad that we keep separate bank accounts. Personally, all the health issues that contractor had is a lie-infact everything that he told DW has been a lie. DW was an easy mark.
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Yes, it does remind you of, whatever your problems are, you are fortunate if you and your children are still walking the earth. I cannot even imagine the pain of losing a child. Plus those two little kids on the ground. I can't stand reading this stuff, it is still all over the news.
Cavaliers are just about the sweetest little dogs out there. About 20 pounds, incredibly good natured, loving and friendly. Their entire job is to love you. I've heard that dogs supposedly aren't interesting in pleasing people....not this breed, they are pleasers. They want to be with you constantly, no matter what you are doing. If you are on the couch, they're in your lap. If you're on the floor, they are finding a place on your body to lay their little soft heads. Our younger one will actually try to hold you down with her little paws, so you can't get up. They aren't the type of dog that can go to a kennel, or spend all day alone. They want to be with people. They can go on an 8 mile hike with you, or whatever you want. But if you aren't going to be around much, they don't like to be kenneled, or alone.
Needless to say, we really, really love our dogs. And I'm not a dog person.
How awful about that crash and your son's friend's huge loss. it's amazing how tragedy can come so close and unfortunately serves to remind us how lucky we are when it doesn't take us or our loved ones.
They are cavalier king charles spaniels. They are comfort dogs, that's their job, but they'll do anything you want.
I guess I shouldn't feel sorry for myself. My youngest son's friend just lost her father and brother in that small plane crash in New Haven CT today. They were going on a summer college tour, dad was flying the plane. Looks like it killed two little kids also in the crash. So awful. My son's friend...such a sweet, nice girl.
Busdriver, what kind of pups are those? They are so cute. We are finally looking to replace our irreplaceable yellow lab who died three years ago this month.
You heard your name as "Handyman" or "Pain in the Butt?" Ah, just kidding, lp. Sounds like you're having a really bad week! I commiserate.
I just bought a stock because our investment adviser just bought it in our account for the same price, and two days later they reported earnings and it plummeted. All the gains that I'd put a lot of effort into getting, bit by bit....gone in two days. Thought I wasn't really picking stocks, as I was just doing what he was (he is very successful) and there it goes. Two days after I bought it.
A refrigerator in one of our condos failed, and the tenant lost all his frozen food. Thought we'd just replace it, but then we realized it was an expensive item and had to pay $$ to get it repaired.
I can barely walk because we hiked up St Helens a couple of days ago, and no amount of Motrin can take away the pain.
I want to retire (but I can't even get early retirement for five years) because my job is killing me. I'm exhausted for weeks every time I work.
And to make matters worse, I have to somehow get up off the floor and get into my car to get some decent coffee because we're out of cream. Don't know how I'm going to get into my car.
I know it is a serious pain in the butt. But yeah, if you can find someone who is handy, it works pretty well. I am just dealing with all these condos we bought during the downturn, and I REALLY don't like dealing with any of it at all. Just got a call saying tenant X needs to break down their boxes before putting them into the trash can, so we'd better let him know ASAP. Ugh. Who cares, how ridiculous. Yet it is so financially rewarding, it is hard to ignore. I am trying to find another for a decent deal, though I can barely stand to do this!!!
Board's dead or comatose, it's hard to tell. longprime's been carrying it for a long time, maybe he'll bite on this:
lp: The Houston Chronicle ran a piece today in the business section about another permit being approved for LNG export, which brings the daily drain up into the billion cubic foot range. Embarrassed to admit it took me almost a minute to reconcile the administration exporting LNG and refusing to import tar oil but I did finally get there -- He's bound and determined to run the US price of energy up to a level that makes all the fruit and nut ideas competitive.
Gotta admire him - most guys couldn't get away with it. Maybe because he's a lawyer?
What to say? DW decided many months ago to fix outside of house (gutters and porch roof). I told her to get someone who is licensed/bonded. She found someone on a recommendation and who said that he's in the process of applying. Two months now and outside is without soffits, gutters, no roof , and the guy is in alcohol rehab for 3 weeks. besides to having a heart attack, girlfriend that just gave birth to his kid, having his truck repo, stiffing his hired help and taking money from a string of other people. No license or bonding.
One of contracter's crewmember stole our expensive mulitipurposed ladder (made in USA) late at night and though a locked fence. Contracter recovered ladder but ladder is now either in his storage unit or in the pickup that is being repossessed.
Safety valve blew off on waterheater while I was at home (rare occurence). Replaced valve but heater is not putting out enough hot water. I can probably fix it (tankless) and I have in the previous unit but I don't have the time (caring for Mom).
Had a blowout with younger sister who is irresponsible for adult care. Had a blowout with older brother who was visiting along with his family--issue was that I didn't get much of a break since he needed to take care of his family, not his fault but my faulty expectation.
Bought a 50cc scooter last month, on the one morning that bro was going to be present (packing to go back to NYC), on hot company in IRA. Most of my trips are very short but expensive on a 1999 Civic getting 22mpg. Took a spill on the scooter on Tuesday, because a SUV didn't see me, and I was wearing a flagger's best, running lights on and going uphill, <20mph.
Bought Tesla at 53, Sold 3 days later at 57. Another week later Tesla was hitting 100.
Mom is failing.
I don't give a sh-it on what happens to Canadian bitumen oil or USA fracked NG. I bought equity in SolarCity which took 5 meter dive today.
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Well, good for him, busdriver -- admitting he treats his money as his money is his first step on the road to becoming a tea-party libertarian, don't you think?
Just another step or two, and he'll never again buttress an argument with the claim he's just fine with paying more. Ecstatic, even.
I usually cut characters I identify with a good bit of slack, when it comes to their warts, but I don't recall liking Holden very much. Been way too many years to remember why, other than a general recollection of him being a miserable little snot rolled in self-pity.
It wasn't Lew's refusing to stick himself in the middle of an ongoing investigation (though that might be too generous a description of what's going on) but rather the in-your-face response to the question that... smells. Like a long dead fish. It looked and sounded so combative that I wasn't surprised to find out Lew's background is a legal one, where it isn't political, or both.
And, speaking of lawyers, let's not forget Holden finally grew up and became one. He didn't lose a bit of his arrogance, though:
NYT: People questioned your legal and constitutional authority to do that unilaterally — to delay the employer mandate. Did you consult with your lawyer?
MR. OBAMA: Jackie, if you heard me on stage today, what I said was that I will seize any opportunity I can find to work with Congress to strengthen the middle class, improve their prospects, improve their security –
NYT: No, but specifically –
MR. OBAMA: — but where Congress is unwilling to act, I will take whatever administrative steps that I can in order to do right by the American people.
And if Congress thinks that what I’ve done is inappropriate or wrong in some fashion, they’re free to make that case…
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But ultimately, I’m not concerned about their opinions — very few of them, by the way, are lawyers, much less constitutional lawyers.
That is funny, hope. Although it has been awhile since I read "Catcher in the Rye", I remember thinking while reading the book that Holden was the biggest phony of them all. And insecure. Good at criticizing the faults of others without recognizing his own. He was judgmental. He provided his own narrative, with only his perspective. He was a narissiscst, to a degree. Sometimes he cared about others, like his sister. The analogy of thinking he could rescue others in a paternalistic way, such as with kids falling off a cliff feeds into that ego he had. He did respect women, though.
I even remember arguing with my English teacher way back when about it!
It was never my favorite book or author, though.
Like all literature, totally up for interpretation.
Started EPA, strengthen OSHA, secretly wanted a stronger Medicare/Medicaid (mother died impoverish from medical reasons), got US out of Vietnam"With Honor", START. 'only, Nixon, could go to China" reproachment, We are all Keyenesian-Got US and eventually Globally off of the gold standard.
Today's Liberals can only dream of another Nixon. And today's Conservatives would wish they had a Nixon.
Nah, cat, he doesn't want to pay more, he uses an accountant to minimize his tax bill. Nothing wrong with that. He wants the dirty, evil rich to pay more. I do see the point about not allowing huge amounts of tax breaks, gained from buying politicians, though.
Apt re the repeated labeling of others as "phony," but Holden has rung true to us all these years because he is honest, not only about others, but about himself.
A quality that can never in a thousand years be attributed to our president. A man who is still carrying around a 400 -years-of -oppression 400 lb. chip on his shoulder as he's about to jet off to Martha's Vineyard as the most powerful man on the planet for some Ill-deserved r&r with his family.
Obama's gas-lighting shenanigans make me nostalgic for Tricky Dick.
Don't know about you, lp, but dstark always struck me as the kind of liberal that claimed he/she wanted to pay more. Possible he/she's just been blowing smoke up all our legs, though.
I am going to henceforth refer to our President as President Holden Caulfield.
Like all really fitting nicknames, that's good enough to stick, sls - Holden he is.
IRS needs at least one tax lawyer for me. you. dstark. winchester. sls. busdriver. catahoula. Which leaves just about 1500 to catch offshoring. college aid cheats. bankers. stock/bonds. organized crime. money laundring. not mention future obamacare cheats.
Okay, I admit I had to google Holden Caulfield. After I read this description, I have to agree with Samurai:
"Holden is naive and at the same time resentful of the adult world.[4] One of Holden's most striking and quintessential qualities is his powerful revulsion for "phony" qualities, a catch-all term for all the perceived hypocrisy that irritates Holden. It is this cynicism that causes him to distance himself from other people. Despite Holden's strong disdain for phony qualities, he exhibits some of the qualities that he abhors, thereby making him a somewhat tragic character. Holden is very much a character of contradiction; At six feet, two-and-a-half inches, he is tall for his age and already has some gray hair - though he himself admits that he acts more like a 13-year-old than an adult."
Okay, cat, that started my morning off right. Hilarious! I hope they are playing it repetitively on Fox. Of course, this is just another phony scandal anyways, so why report it.
Don't know about catahoulas?
