Good evening, Suzanne!

We had some nice thunderstorms in the San Fernando Valley this afternoon (fla-CRACK!Bang boom rumble rumble rumble)

Suzanne!!!

Hope it wasn’t dry-lightning, PJ!
FunnyDiva

three-and-a-half somersaults, tuck position

c a n n o n b a l l kur-splaaaaaaaaaash

g’evening pups

Suzanne!

splutter, splutter
towel, please?

on the shelves next to each power station, above the brain bleach dispensers

Go for it Neuro!!
geez Suz I already took my bath for Saturday night and now ya got me all wet!!

how’s everyone doing tonight? breezy here tonight, with gusts in the 20’s. black clouds came through at sunset but only sprinkles for rain.

What’s on your mind tonight?

thinkin’ about Tuesday. I’m wondering how many states will still have people in line when the polls are supposed to close, how many hours voting may be extended, whether there’s a possibility that voting may have to be carried over to Wednesday, and just how long it might be before all results are in.

And what kind of a shit-storm that may cause….

Other than that – not much.

flat-out gorgeous here – temps in the 70’s and sunny.

It’s going to take an awful lot of this to make me mad…..

Hanging there Suz how about you and of course you have to give an update on Token… Tucker wants to know how his meetup pup buddy is doing??

g’evening Suze & pups!

Feels good to only be working 40 hrs a week … I had time to volunteer for Obama & Al Franken today, will do the same tomorrow. Every little bit helps! GObama.

Yanno, my grandma told me never to trust those Irish folk, but that young O’Bama, he seems ok.

token is feeling much better – he ate his pot roast tonight and let me give him his liquid med quite easily.

the pill, however, is another story. he insists on the hard way each time. i’m more stubborn than he is – but i gotta say, holding the pill in his mouth until i give up holding his mouth closed, while doing fake swallows, was pretty impressive.

No, we’ve been getting showers and small cloudbursts all day.
In fact, that flashbang (time between flash and sound: a lot less than a second) came with a fairly good downpour, although it didn’t last very long.

wrap it in cheese..most dogs don’t bother to chew cheese… but with token ???

(((world’s cutest dog, 7lb division)))
(((((Suzanne)))))

It sucks when they’re sick. Especially if they’re pill-stubborn…

FunnyD

Well, so far, we’re batting 100% when it comes to court cases on voter suppression. Yay! Fingers crossed. Toes crossed. Eyes crossed. That it continues through election day!

I’m just tired. Gets tiring living in a battleground state. Thank god i have a teenager who’s always on the phone, or it would always be ringing!

Ya gotta see Joe the Plumber over at Democraticunderground

I live in Montana – but we’re becoming a battleground state.

Today someone called my mom to ‘remind her to vote on November 5.’

Oh yeah. Didn’t identify themselves and hung up immediately.

tried it. he sniffs it suspiciously and then takes a bite and will eat the cheese, spitting out the pill. he’s a very suspicious eater and not food oriented like his sister.

same thing with sticking it inside his treat. the little forker knows when there is meds in food. i’m thinking of dissolving it in a wee bit of milk – he usually loves milk and gets a wee saucer of milk some nights.

while I was GOTVing for Obama in Missouri today, a woman stopped her car in the middle of the street and yelled at me that she and her family were absolutely against Obama, they were all for McCain, in fact they were 150 percent for McCain. I nodded, and said, well, OK. Fine. Then she surprised me. She said, “But thank you for your patriotism.”

What nahant said.

Diva (world’s stupidest dog, 50 lb division) has serious separation anxiety, and she’s been on Clomicalm for several years. If we wrap it in cheddar she usually takes it without any trouble. Use mozzerella, and she won’t take it.

Peanut butter also works with some dogs.

token is 9lb, 13 oz. dood’s gotta go on a diet to stay under 10lbs. iirc, that’s the too big to fly internationally limit and they have to go into the cargo hold of the plane.

just in case tuesday don’t go the way it should.

neuro – you thanked her first. difuses all the anger when ya do that :)

which said to me that, well, maybe there is, indeed, some hope that Obama can somehow bring this traumatized-by-eight-years-of-bush country together in some fashion…

We’ve got a retired couple in our neighborhood who are major-league R’s. They had several Boosh yard signs up in 2004, more than they had up in 2000. Nothing up for them this year.

In fact, R enthusiasm seems to be down quite a bit here in Southern NM. Two more days…

Yeah, except when it makes them madder!

Bush-league government …

Nice dive!

Early reports from the NO-on-8 candlelight vigil in San Diego, held in response to the The (sparsely attended Qualcomm) Call, are that more local people might have turned out for NO than all those bussed in for YES at the Stadium.

Will link up video when it’s available.

bo has run a very clean, very classy campaign. he may not get their vote but he is earning their respect for his ways.

there is always the crazy exception. i tended to find them back in the day when working. still, a polite, respectful attitude can many times get ya further than just telling someone what to do.

Cheddar is Tucker’s fav but lately he been partial Jarlsberg cheese,Julie is cutting down on the cholesterol and the Jarlsberg is made with skim milk!

True, dat.

Teddy, that is excellent news!

hehehehehe that’s the one the geezer stiffed his grandkids to attend making it even more special for his family.

Patty Griffin – No Bad News

oh, i love that song. thanks mr why

My ex-SIL was a Deputy Sheriff in Florida and a lady tried to file a complaint against him. He had stopped her to give her a ticket for driving 85 mph in a 65 zone. He was very respectful even though she was cussin and swearin at him. After he finished writing the ticket he told her to ‘have a nice day.’ She called his captain to complain. He listened politely and tried to figure out what she wanted to complain about and she just kept saying that he told her to ‘have a nice day.’

He finally assured her that he would speak to the SIL about his attitude. Then he told her to ‘have a nice day’ and hung up.

Har har!

Biden busted his good old friend McSame for tunning a campaign that shocked him for the low life road he has taken.
The republican party is the party of mean people. Obama’s uniting philosophy will require a huge sell out of the middle class…the poor will be thrown under the bus as evidenced by the bail out of the country club class. Last 10 years investments in S&Ps have had a net 0% return.
All that retirement money has been losing value. Not a good thing as more people will need help to survive. A 94 year old who’s wife is very sick lost $60K on WAMU stock. Sad.

what looked like a whole yes-on-8 asian church picketed the intersection of el camino and grant road this afternoon in mountain view. unfortunately, there was some honking.

i used to work a beat that had a lotta abandoned cars and i would tow one or two a shift. my sgt told me that he figured he got a cc (citizen’s complaint) about every ten tows or so – is how he knew i was doing my job.

my favorite was the owner demanding to make a stolen vehicle report with me as the suspect.

I sure don’t get why all these supposedly Christian people are so intolerant. They obviously don’t read the same ‘good book’ that I did. All those stories about JC hanging around with all the nefarious sorts, tax collectors and prostitutes and non-Jews and all that. I surely don’t get how that translated into the bigotry and hate that some of these people practice and probably the worst part is that they don’t think they are doing anything wrong. It’s sooooo sad.

Dayam, Spurious
I know that intersection! Used to live in that part of the country.
Sorry to hear about the wackos today. I never thought of that area as being particularly conservative/reactionary.

FunnyDiva

No on 8 protest again today at Alameda and Ralston (about a mile from ECR) in Belmont. Not as big as the one from earlier this week, but maybe 30 people of all ages in hard rain. No “Yes” protest in Belmont today.

glad to hear you’re getting rain, newt!
How’s the nearby reservoir looking these days?

FunnyD

r’s have a fear of getting wet. goes back to the original r, the wicked witch of the west.

BB,

The R’s are mean … in a sense McCain is really a good exemplar of the brand. Look at his bio, and you see that it is all about him.

It’s one thing to be ’all about me’ when you’ve got access to millions. It’s something else when your 401K is plunging and that’s the only real retirement plan you’ve got.

They’re scared. And McCain and his surrogates are doing their best to make them more frightened. Scared people react in unpredicatable and nasty ways.

Hey diva
Crystal springs is about normal – low – for this time of year.
Not exactly drought conditions around here, but the bigger worry these days is the reservoir infrastructure. Pretty sorry condition, billions to fix.

Oh, that’s a shame about the infrastructure.
Glad to hear that you’re not in drought at the moment. I remember the bad one in the ’80s.

FunnyD

yup! water does wonders on those kind!!

these all looked like nice enough people, but undoubtedly doing what their pastor told them to. sad. not really that conservative around here, but there is a mix

Welll on that wet note Good night pups…sweet dreams of an Obama landslide!!

g’nite nahant

oh snap! i forgot to look for the friday nite news dump last nite.

night, nahant.
I’m going to retire for the evening as well. Be good to yourselves!

XXOO
FunnyDiva

g’nite funny d

Every service for the poor has been cut…drastically in CA and SLO County where I am a resident. The homeless population is growing…moms with school kids who use the car light to do homework.
The fundies and other religious groups ignore the basic tenents of most religion…be merciful. The hypocricy is disgusting..they spend energy doing other nasty things.
Meanwhile the price of rental housing…if you can find it is rising like 25% as income lose the purchasing power and we are bailing out rich bankers?
That is what I am thinking about. People applying for a job see 100 other applicants again. I do not think I am being negative. We need a congress and administraion that will take immediate steps to solve the worst problems first which is not helping wealthy investors and banks.
That is what is on my mind tonight and every night. CT lost his housing and is planning on housekeeping with his wife in a tent. Another couple I know are raisng a 1 year old in a tent! Millions of people this year have lost their housing and jobs. It will be worse next year.
Can you believe what our country is coming to? McInsane says “country first” how do I know he is lying? His lips are moving.

They are the modern equivalent of the Pharisees. They are more concerned with the letter of the law than with its spirit. What’s most amazing about them is that they pick-and-choose the bits of the Old Testament they want to follow. So, Viyella (cotton-wool blend) shirts are okay, lobster and shrimp (unclean animals, hence not kosher), pork (ditto) are okay, even though Leviticus makes it quite clear that those things are Abominations to doG. On the other hand, teh gays are clearly Bad People who need to be suppressed, at least until the laws are changed and teh gays can be stoned (with rocks, not cannabis) as the OT demands.

nite nahant
nite diva

Be grateful it isn’t Bailey you have to give a pill to.

heading off myself. night all

she takes cheese from my hand now busted – her, i could wrap it in cheese with and she would want more.

g’nite spur – nice to see ya again

i ask myself the same, “what has our country come to!”

Here in Minnesota people working at minimum wage cannot afford a place to live.

its really sad what we as a country have become – and how passive the people were until it got so bad that it could not be ignored.

If you have ever had to give a cat a pill you need a good laugh at the link I put up there.

OK, that’s true and funny!

nite spurious

nite suz, night newt. (have been around but just lurking)

i almost laughed out loud at the dirty nasty mad look token gave me when he finally took the pill. he was so mad his legs were stiff and he turned his back on me. he’s never given me a look like that before but i certainly didn’t need a translator to understand it.

If people can’t get jobs they need a safety net. Another friend has four kids and a husband and zero balance in the bank account. They pay $12,000.00 a year medical with a big deductible. She could not get a yearly mamogram authorized and has bleeding breast and and sores. She cannot afford a bay siter.
The rain, thankfully is falling on our parched community. By the way their are some fine church folk that feed the homeless and house the 45 bed shelter over flow when possible. The fundies I can’t stand. Maindtream not so bad and more tolerant. My mormon nieghbors have the signs up. Yuk.

that one needed a spew alert! But very true.

Poor little guy.
Sometimes being a parent makes you do things you would rather not, eh Mom?

Thank yer lucky stars ya didn’t have to take his temperature, he might have started leaving you little presents!

Right on! Nice to see ya!

Say hi to the Spook for me, will ya?

Damn. I missed Ian’s thread downstairs and wanted to recommend this Rollignstone article, “The New Trough,” by Naomi Klein, which I’m probably the last to notice — very good stuff: http://www.rollingstone.com/po…..w_trough/5 In short: the bailout is ever bit as evil as we feared it would be.

I had hope that when Der Governfuhrer won a term in his own right that he would be able to do the right thing. Since the days when St Ronnie of Raygun was Governor, Californians have been sold a fantasy.

When it comes to governments, there are three feasible models. The first (California used to fall in this category) is high-tax/high-service governments. Think Minnesota, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, etc. Things work, good schools, good libraries, comprehensive park systems. The second model is low-tax/low-service. Think Texas and Alabama. To the extent that they are directly state-supported, the schools suck, libraries are small and scattered, parks (if they exist at all) are few, far between and poorly maintained. The last feasible regime is high-tax/low-service governments. I don’t know of any in this country.

The fantasy Californians were sold by Reagan, Howard Jarvis and their heirs is that they can have a low-tax/high-service government. It isn’t possible. Once upon a time, the education system in California was the envy of the world. There were four (FOUR!) world-class public university campuses. Citizens could be educated from K to PhD at nominal out-of-pocket cost, if they had the ability. Now it’s actually cheaper to send a student out-of-state than to the University of California. California had a wonderful network of State Parks and County Parks. Cities (even Bakersfield) had good parks in every neighborhood. Now you can tell new neighborhoods from old, because the new neighborhoods don’t have parks.

My hope was that Arnold would tell the citizens of California that they face a choice, and it has to be made now. You can have good services that enhance the quality of your life, but they must be paid for somehow. That means taxes. Or, you can have a government modeled after Texas, which the late Molly Ivins characterized as our nation’s laboratory for bad public policy. You can low taxes, but without taxes you don’t get the services. You get shitty school systems. Your park systems will decay and be overused. Your system of higher education will decay. Maybe your four world-class universities will make it, maybe not. But the cost of attending them will approach the cost of attending an Ivy-equivalent. Maybe that’s fair, that’s what Cal, UCLA, Davis and UCSD are. But it’s a sad change from the day when merit determined who attended those schools.

Unfortunately, it appears that while Arnold doesn’t need the job, he’s surrounded by people who DO need the next election and the next job. He has refused to tell Californians what they need to hear. Instead he’s running around with cockamamie schemes like selling bonds to be paid on lottery revenues… talk about gambling! It’s sad, but there it is.

after getting that look last night, i wondered what kinda ‘gift’ i was gonna get when i woke up. luckily, token einstein gomer was in gomer mode after i gave him his pain med dose and cuddled up nicely last nite.

Aww, he’s a good boy.

Will do! He went to bed early … all the Obama & Franken volunteering we did today tuckered him out.

I was telling him on the way home that the new GOP symbol should be a giraffe. Not to malign the poor critters, but the only people left in that party have their heads so far up their a** that they need a neck that long.

ROFLMAO!

Good one!

hehehehehe guess there is not an animal symbol for the cranium-rectumacious animal

In Minn/Wisc we used to have those things (good schools, good infrastructure, wonderful parks), but thanks to Pawlenty, Coleman, Kline, etc they’re all crumbling. 35W bridge anyone? Rethugs would not accept safety review that said bridge was unsafe.

mccain is being a pretty good sport so far on snl

Now you feel much better Suzzanne. that was so funny. Cats are fool proof.

Cindy McCain was hysterical. Hi ya, Suzanne!

hey marshen – up late tonight?

speaking of cats, my ol’ NewDealDad used to tell a story about a neighbor … seems the neighbor and the hired hand were sharing a bottle one fine day, and they got inspired to stop the tomcat from “catting around.” So they got out their leather chopper mitts and a tin snip. Mr TomCat was having NO part of that operation. The leather gloves were thoroughly shredded as were their arms and various other body parts. Mr Kitteh remained intact but not their cheery mood. You could say their buzz got harshed.

hahahahaha their buzz met a tomcat now known as the buzzsaw.

Your sure, we aren’t related?

That is hysterical because I can see that happening plain as day!

always. :)

well, busted, i may live in a big city and be a hippie-flippie librul artist-type, but underneath it all i’m just a pragmatic farmgrrrlll with lots of relatives who still live in the boonies ;-)

*laughing* me too. i figure i’ll be here all nite tue nite, either on pins and needles praying or celebrating.

When theirr head is in your ass what happens when they fart?

bwahahaha! buzzsaw! Next time that story gets told at a family gathering i’ll chime in at the end with “and they renamed him ‘buzzsaw!’ ” Heh. *chortles some more*

shit happens dood

I gotta admit, this is the first SNL that I have actually laughed at in years, this Olberman send off is funny as hell.

That’s rich.

it pissed me off … but the actor was dayam good and had ko down pat.

The View was not bad either.

I’ll be here too probably. I hope it will be as exciting as the night when Bill Clinton won. I am sure it will be much more of a world event than just a national one. I might watch FOX just to see Hannity tell his last lie about Obama.

i hope for an early bo win – and my biggest fear is 2000 all over again.

Too funny! SNL having a spoof on Giraffes.
NDFG must be prescient.

or a time zone ahead of us

great minds think alike ;-)

I see Obama being declared well before the polls close on the West Coast.
The forking media does it every election. At LEAST two hours before they close here.

i’m a couple of time zones ahead but gave away my TV a couple of years ago. So I don’t see KO, snl, etc until several days after clips go up on the toobz, got too many polling sites to study instead of watching that stuff. Why yes, i’m a dweeb without a life, why do you ask? *blinks innocently*

When do you think we will start seeing significant returns on election night? KO had on that guy from 527 talking about the electoral votes but they did’t really say about when we would know anything. It’s looking more and more like the lines are going to be incredibly long to vote, and talk of extending the voting hours in some states.

OK. Another astounding Frank Rich column.

Once Obama wrested the nomination from Clinton by surpassing her in organization, cash and black votes, he was still often seen as too wimpy to take on the Republicans. This prognosis was codified by Karl Rove, whose punditry for The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek has been second only to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as a reliable source of laughs this year. Rove called Obama “lazy,” and over the summer he predicted that his fund-raising had peaked in February and that he’d have a “serious problem” winning over Hispanics. Well, Obama was lazy like a fox, and is leading John McCain among Hispanics by 2 to 1. Obama has also pulled ahead among white women despite the widespread predictions that he’d never bring furious Hillary supporters into the fold.

*snaps fingers* curses foiled again

i had totally forgot about that no tv thang ndfg.

i do kinda miss the New Red Green Show tho.

naomi’s observations are interesting. I wonder if the bank’s business modeling consultnats have a sucesssful plan during a recession. You know a wokable model that gives a fair profit. it seems like they need public subsidies even without all the devalued speculative paper. These financial institutions were the bedrock of capitalism. Is their business model btoken? Can they make it on treasury loans and depositor capital? Any bankers around?
Yhere were a few community banks in Northern california that seemed to make it allright in the 90s. The giant auto industry wants bailing too. Is Paulsen viewed by the corporate culture as the “Tooth Fairy”. Then we are the Marks.

i dunno – i’ve really got no clue but feel down in my bones that its going to be a long night. i think there are gonna be long lines and slow returns – the shear volume of voters in states that do not have early voting could slow down getting the results.

“The Double Maverick”.

Whoa ho ho ho.

Busted, that is so funny tears are rolling down my face. Yes indeed, I have a cat. A cat no sane person would tolerate. His vet file has a big red caution sticker on the cover.

I went through over $40 worth of frontline just trying to apply a drop to his head. I now pay the vet to do it. Monthly.

it’s been great fun to hang out at the lake again, but time for bed! G’night Suzanne & pups, good to see y’all.

McCain is way funnier than his vice-presidential running mate.

For a guy with one foot in his political grave and the other in a pile of shit, he was in good humor.
Makes me wonder…

g’nite ndfg

busted, yanno, that link at 82 really is more like token and pills, but without the claws. he got air one time last night when spitting out the pill after it had been in his mouth for 5 minutes.

Amazing what it takes to be a politician these days.

What’s on my mind tonight?
I voted today! There was an early voting center on the University of Hawaii campus, and today was the last day for early voting. The campus was almost deserted; even the Campus center seemed deserted, until I found the end of the line for early voting. The line circled an anteroom, and then wound its way down the stairs– more than 50 people. The wait was about 2 hours. Fortunately, I had my Smart Phone with me, so I spent most of the two hours reading the comments with the Galbraith FDL Book Salon, which was very interesting.

Anyway, this voting place used electronic machines with a paper trail. At the end, the machine printed out my votes, asked me to verify them, and then when I press the “cast your vote” button, the vote is recorded. So that for an electronic machine, it wasn’t too bad.

Have you voted yet?

Bob in HI

I don’t envy him. Imagine what he must have gone through the day he settled on Imelda.

Chuckle.
Smart little feller.

Alice…”Ralph why don’t we just get rid of the cat”? Yeah Ralph! So so funny the classic gem Jackie Gleason Art Carney and Shiela McRae. Wow so many well spent hours watching the Honeymooners. They were so funny well intentioned Norton, the ever angry Cramden and the amazing Alice could handle it all. Opening up the window and hollering upstairs. Jackie did a skit where he was sitting in the living room (another show) reading the evening paper when the wall sprang as leak, So got up and patched and sat back down to read…that was the whole show and was it ever hilarious his reaction made it. He always had the infamous cup of tea. Thanks for the memories what a funny funny creeping cat getting bopped by Alice the mouse. The best ever Suz.

what’s amazing what the r’s think we the people will swallow as a politician. they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel lately.

hence the einstein part of his name.

stubborn little guy

absentee – totally by paper :)

and now that i’m up in oregon, i’ll be voting by mail with the rest of the state. totally paper trail.

$1 Billion on the campaign the ad companies are loving it. What a waste of resources.

I doubt McCain ever thought he would be in a Viet Cong prison and then forty years later be sitting on SNL doing jokes during the last fateful days of his second presidential campaign. Weird.

If nothing else, hopefully the George W. Bush years have put an end to gullible voters.

True enough.
Just the dream of getting out of that Hellhole must have been unimaginable.

For once I can heartily endorse a “spit, don’t swallow’ attitude.

spew

You threw him a big fat pitch to swing at.

I know it is my dirty hippy thinking but every time I hear what both sides spent I wonder how many starving people could be fed or how many low-income housing units could have been built for that money. It would be great if donors could get excited about this other than when we have a natural disaster or something.

*innocent look*

The only trouble with voting absentee is making sure that your vote was actually counted. There’s often a number you can call after a week to verify that your vote was, indeed, counted. It’s a good idea to do that.

Aloha,
Bob in HI

good advice – aloha bob in hi

Right down the tube.

Right.
Y’all have a pleasant day after ya wake up, I am going to leave ya alone and go do something else that is relatively harmless.
Gnite.

g’nite busted

time for me to head out myself. it’s pill time for token. g’nite all and thanks for hanging out with me tonight.

nite busted

nite suzanne
thanks
i’m jammin too

what’s amazing what the r’s think we the people will swallow as a politician.

Total disdain. They believe everyone is as gullible as their authoritarian followers. In their arrogance they mistook inattention for stupidity.

270…and beyond
The Economist view for the coming Obama victory.

Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd, Kristof, Friedman and Rich today. Ms. Dowd asks “Who’s the Question Mark?” She says John McCain was a man of candor. But ever since Steve Schmidt became Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, the candidate has become a question mark. Mr. Kristof thinks it’s time for the United States to “Rejoin the World.” He says as president, George W. Bush’s cowboy diplomacy wrenched the United States out of the international community. We must rejoin the world. Mr. Friedman, in “Vote for ( )” says that the presidential candidates have broad ideas about how to restore the nation’s financial health. But what they are not saying is that we are all going to have to pay for it. Mr. Rich, in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” says forty-one years after Sidney Poitier’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” racial politics in America have changed, but not completely.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got French toast made with challah and a hint of cinnamon. There’s Vermont maple syrup to go along with it. I’m reaching the point where I’m not going to be good for much of anything other than sitting in a corner hyperventilating until midnight Tuesday… Have a good day.