Comments on: Early Morning Swim http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:23:28 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911549 SouthernDragon Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:20:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911549 <p>Funny thing about that tail. The day I brought him home after his tail removal I was awarded a natural Manx, Nagi. Watching the 2 of them I’ve noticed that Maste doesn’t quite have the balance Nagi does. I imagine that will also ease once he adjusts to no tail. He’s finally purring. A little rough around the edges but it’s there.</p> Funny thing about that tail. The day I brought him home after his tail removal I was awarded a natural Manx, Nagi. Watching the 2 of them I’ve noticed that Maste doesn’t quite have the balance Nagi does. I imagine that will also ease once he adjusts to no tail. He’s finally purring. A little rough around the edges but it’s there.

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911532 Adie Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:51:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911532 <p>Ah. Cuddling his way into the pack. Smart little kitty. He certainly found the right home. So glad his physical symptoms eased. He’s obviously a keeper. Who needs a tail anyway?!</p> Ah. Cuddling his way into the pack. Smart little kitty. He certainly found the right home. So glad his physical symptoms eased. He’s obviously a keeper. Who needs a tail anyway?!

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911531 Adie Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:47:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911531 <p>the link. yes. i did earlier. Thanks.</p> <p>I don’t do crowds well. Stay away from that kind of demo. And try to keep the approach calm enough when protesting that my “target” continues to listen, if possible.</p> <p>I used the trap-door-spider approach during dubya’s reign of terrah. Wore upside-down flag in front of our house, on my car, and small but apparently eloquent flag pin on my person. If someone commented or even just frowned, I explained the meaning of the disturbing symbol, the official translation of exactly what display of our flag means: upside down = extreme danger and distress. Usually I didn’t have to explain further. I got a lot of thumbs up and nods from the darndest people. People who didn’t dare speak out personally. The worst reaction I ever got was sobered people “agreeing to disagree,” a position I readily offered if they wanted to argue the merits of warlike acts, the latter which I refused to do. I would not budge from my position, and didn’t fall into the trap of arguing any part of it. It was simply a personal statement.</p> <p>It was a long couple of years I kept up the display (accompanied by yellow ribbon). The display,was never vandalized. But a significant number of truck drivers & the like signaled a thumbs-up or tooted the horn to me when seeing it. I have gray/white hair. I don’t play fair ;-></p> <p>P. E. A. C. E.</p> the link. yes. i did earlier. Thanks.

I don’t do crowds well. Stay away from that kind of demo. And try to keep the approach calm enough when protesting that my “target” continues to listen, if possible.

I used the trap-door-spider approach during dubya’s reign of terrah. Wore upside-down flag in front of our house, on my car, and small but apparently eloquent flag pin on my person. If someone commented or even just frowned, I explained the meaning of the disturbing symbol, the official translation of exactly what display of our flag means: upside down = extreme danger and distress. Usually I didn’t have to explain further. I got a lot of thumbs up and nods from the darndest people. People who didn’t dare speak out personally. The worst reaction I ever got was sobered people “agreeing to disagree,” a position I readily offered if they wanted to argue the merits of warlike acts, the latter which I refused to do. I would not budge from my position, and didn’t fall into the trap of arguing any part of it. It was simply a personal statement.

It was a long couple of years I kept up the display (accompanied by yellow ribbon). The display,was never vandalized. But a significant number of truck drivers & the like signaled a thumbs-up or tooted the horn to me when seeing it. I have gray/white hair. I don’t play fair ;->

P. E. A. C. E.

]]> By: ironranger http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911530 ironranger Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:23:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911530 <p>LOL, my friend will appreciate your comment.<br /> Know-it-all Kramer was on morning joe according to my husband. Hubby has been in the car bidness in one capacity or another all his life & Kramer must have really set his hair on fire. Sounds like 99% of the joe lineup this morning was just as annoying.</p> LOL, my friend will appreciate your comment.
Know-it-all Kramer was on morning joe according to my husband. Hubby has been in the car bidness in one capacity or another all his life & Kramer must have really set his hair on fire. Sounds like 99% of the joe lineup this morning was just as annoying.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911529 SouthernDragon Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:22:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911529 <p>Check out my link at 4. Hard core pacifists. Thanks for Maste. For some reason his incontinence stopped Friday, the day I took him in to have his sutures removed. This is one little tiger who’s just happy as a clam. Just a few minutes ago he and Gabby were curled up together on the dining room table.</p> Check out my link at 4. Hard core pacifists. Thanks for Maste. For some reason his incontinence stopped Friday, the day I took him in to have his sutures removed. This is one little tiger who’s just happy as a clam. Just a few minutes ago he and Gabby were curled up together on the dining room table.

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911528 Adie Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:18:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911528 <p>You’re talking to a war protestor. If we have to play carrot and stick, rant and cajole, pound on their figurative doors, call them out in public, whatever it takes… Seriously, I’m almost pure pacifist at this point. I simply can’t tolerate the other choices in any way, shape or form.</p> <p>I’ll follow the same road as you, but in my wimpy style. You go tiger! and Thank you!</p> <p>p.s., best to little maste. ;-></p> You’re talking to a war protestor. If we have to play carrot and stick, rant and cajole, pound on their figurative doors, call them out in public, whatever it takes… Seriously, I’m almost pure pacifist at this point. I simply can’t tolerate the other choices in any way, shape or form.

I’ll follow the same road as you, but in my wimpy style. You go tiger! and Thank you!

p.s., best to little maste. ;->

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911527 SouthernDragon Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:15:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911527 <p>Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.</p> <p>Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.</p> <p>Namaste</p> Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911526 Adie Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:11:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911526 <p>But how do they see anything, once the screen’s all fogged up? Ahhh. Imagination. Ewwwwwww. *click*</p> But how do they see anything, once the screen’s all fogged up? Ahhh. Imagination. Ewwwwwww. *click*

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911525 SouthernDragon Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:11:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911525 <p>As long as we continue our military adventures in Irak, Afghanistan and Pakistan our economy is going to remain in the toilet. We simply cannot afford 20+ years of constant warfare. Our funding of the military and banking industry is destroying the fabric of the country. What were once giant manufacturing companies are now nothing more than importers of cheap goods sold at inflated prices. We, our children and even our pets have paid the ultimate price in the name of profit.</p> As long as we continue our military adventures in Irak, Afghanistan and Pakistan our economy is going to remain in the toilet. We simply cannot afford 20+ years of constant warfare. Our funding of the military and banking industry is destroying the fabric of the country. What were once giant manufacturing companies are now nothing more than importers of cheap goods sold at inflated prices. We, our children and even our pets have paid the ultimate price in the name of profit.

]]> By: rjrnab http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911524 rjrnab Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:11:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/early-morning-swim-151/#comment-1911524 <p>Joe Scarbo got his republican AK roni raygunzap propagando machine out on</p> <p>MSNBC this morning! The Nation got to use some short truth reply bursts. </p> <p>It was a typical r. r. love fest, along with Joe’s new book to give us </p> <p>Hope. If Katrina could of just worked closer with Georgia Joe, and they’d</p> <p>figured Obama just wants to get all Americans on prolonged detention so we</p> <p>can all get that excellant GTMO Health Care.</p> Joe Scarbo got his republican AK roni raygunzap propagando machine out on

MSNBC this morning! The Nation got to use some short truth reply bursts.

It was a typical r. r. love fest, along with Joe’s new book to give us

Hope. If Katrina could of just worked closer with Georgia Joe, and they’d

figured Obama just wants to get all Americans on prolonged detention so we

can all get that excellant GTMO Health Care.

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