pouting baby!

Hi, Suze. I don’t think you need help crossing the street like Turtle Mitch does.

Jim!

How is my fellow Okie tonight? It is snowing here in the northern Rockies, though not as cold as it was last week. I would not mind (or even pay any attention to) Mitch and the rest of the whackaloons if the Dems would grow a frakking spine.

Nice bird you got there, PB

Hey Doc. It’s already below freezing here tonight, too. I had to put blankets on the horses before dinner time. I didn’t move to Florida for this.

That bird must fly proudly!

all i can say (without having to moderate myself) is that turtle mitch is dayam lucky i’m not his mom.

love that don’t walk video dood

Hi folks.

Nancy gets a big, big attagirl from me for today. Well done, Madam Speaker.

Pouting Baby, it’s like this. Turtle Mitch is a bastard. Can you spell ‘bastard?’ B-A-S-T-A-R-D. I knew you could.

Glad the baby is back. He has such good insight on our problems.

Wow! That doesn’t happen a lot down there. We are having pretty mild temps here with highs in the low 30s and lows in the mid-low 20s, but it has been snowing off and on all week.

Indeed. The only Dem leader with a spine.

Possibly, but even the press noted that what happened in the House today was merely symbolic. Only if she finds a way to get Reid to join in finding some courage will I give her more than symbolic credit.

soap poisoning would be a risk

I’m still wiping tears from my eyes…! That’d surely stop me in my tracks…! ;-)

Pouting Baby isn’t allowed to say that yet, but I am. ;)

TPM is reporting that the Senate Dems are going to do just that.

Yeah, I’m surprised traffic is just driving on by in that video. I’d sure stop for a closer look.

Now that is good news. A process I sometimes describe as spinus regeneratus.

spokane has had a buncha snow lately…

We can but hope.

Harry’s announced cloture votes for Saturday.

If I were Harry, I’d call the Mitch-man’s bluff and keep the Senate in session daily until January 3.

What’cha drinking, colleague?

They get more of it than we do, but that is the same stuff we are getting here (we are just a few hours east of them).

Given the weather, I think a hot toddy would be nice. Might even open the curtains and watch the snow fall.

I think MSNBC just reported that Reid is gonna hold two votes on Saturday… Stay tuned…! ;-)

Here ya’ go. Hot buttered rum… with a Ceylon cinnamon stick.

I’m drinking Talisker *S*

While progressives are complaining about pouting babies, they are running circles around us.

Well, the chickenshit Earl of Orange was pretty pissed off about being out-maneuvered today.

I guess my toobz are clogged…! Here ya go……! ;-)

Kaji Koinu!

Warms the cockles of my heart.

But let’s hope they cross the street now and then.

Thank you Senator Stevens. I dunno what we’d do without your inane misconceptions… toobz indeed!

Hiya! How’s life in Houston town?

Hi Margaret!

How’s life in Houston town?

I wouldn’t know. I haven’t been there since my mom died in 2004.

Konban wa Jim!

Good.

Sorry. For some reason I thought you lived in the metro area.

*pouting – but does this “bird” work”?

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BCT & JW,

Nice that you’re satisfied with dregs. Somehow that doesn’t seem quite enough, given the objective circumstances.

Sorry I haven’t been around much this week. I’ve been ill and in a great deal of pain. Better now a bit. I’m sitting in my chair for the first time this week. Probably won’t last long but I’m looking forward to an honest night’s sleep anyway.

LMAO! Nice!

I’m from there DrD. That’s probably what you’re thinking of. Or more correctly, I’m from very near there.

Satisfied? I’m not satisfied. But it’s something, and something’s better than nothing.

I hope you get better soon. That does not sound like any fun at all.

Awesome! Hiya, Kelly. Great post yesterday.

Nicely done.

Oh, in the waterfall adventure here at Chez CounterTenor, my adjuster is coming by tomorrow. He said to plan on three hours.

I’m sure this will be not much fun at all.

It is nice to see some positive action for a change. Be nicer if I thought it would lead to even better things.

Ugh! That sounds like bureaucratic hell on the hoof.

Thanks JW. Saw you tweeted it when I got home tonight – that was sweet of you; didn’t realize it got front paged yesterday.

I have the “every other night” rule with belch so he’s not a total Internet widow.

I still don’t get why the IDIOT Democrats didn’t get the Republicans to throw a temper tantrum over middle class tax cuts BEFORE the election. The only way it remotely makes sense is if they were trying to cover for the same blue douches dogs that always vote with the Republicans anyway.

When Mitch cries it means we are doing something right.

Thanks. MUCH better now thank you.

Remember to wear your hip-waders. It’s all in the presentation.

Don’t know if you have seen this, but thought you mightget a kick out of it.

When i was young i remember my mom saying “don’t pick that up you don’t know where it’s been”

yay!!!

You got that right. And Pouting Baby likes to watch the orange guy cry, too.

I agree the Dems tanked the election. If Obama had fought against DADT, for immigration rights for home owners and jobs.
Well we were never going to get the anti Gay, anti Immigration vote we could have had the homeowner and worried about job vote.

It’s nothing I’m looking forward to. Except that it will give me a chance to get the enormous whole in the ceiling repaired.

A full hazmat suit, however, would probably be a bit over the top.

I’m not so sure about that. Lots of downsides I can imagine with your statement. Like the way O spins every librul defeat. Like denial of the true state of affairs. And prolly like a lot of other downsides I can’t think of right now.

Prolly true for subsistence survival, which would be plenty good enough for many. I wouldn’t ever argue with that. Just imagine that sights in this day & age might be higher. But then, of course, they aren’t.

Heard that one a bit, too.

Funny Glen cries to the GOP has gotten sensitive but we are bleeding heart liberals?

Yes, I saw it this morning. It is definitely going into Lecture 1 in my intro class in January. It’s incredible.

It really is pretty awesome. I shared it with several of my colleagues as well.

Obama has been fighting against DADT. How many times has his Justice Department defended that abominable law in the courts? He’s never going to get gay haters votes but I can’t help but think that vigorously fighting AGAINST it would have done more to turn out his base.

Mitch and the Corporate GOP leadership needs to fight more crying won’t impress the Tea Baggers. The GOP needs a win the Tea Baggers need to crow they need a victory or like little kids they will lose interest.

It’s worked so far for the Republicans, I’m afraid. He’s been giving the people that finger for a while now, telling them it’s for their own good.

I think an interesting question is why Obama responds to [and thereby rewards] Turtle Mitch and his tantrums.

His real base its not us.

LMAO! Never underestimate the value of a good safety suit with nuclear symbols on it.

Obama’s not a liberal. He’s closer to center-right than center.

Anything we get from him we have to fight for. He isn’t on our side and isn’t about to join us. Just another reason I’m ready to primary his ass in ’12.

That is one kewl graphic to be sure.

Kudos, Kelly…! Nice job…! ;-)

I’m hip. I was referring of course to the people who actually voted for him.

It’s about time we sent it back to him, then, isn’t it?

Or a subtle cough in a not filled-to-sardine-capacity airliner.

Well, this chair is wearing on my and my bed is singing sweet songs of sleep to me. Nighters all. :)

g’nite margaret

Yes, that one is a baffler. He just seems to be such a coward.

G’night lady.

Good night, Margaret. Enjoy your precious and well-earned sleep. I hope things continue to improve tomorrow.

You know what’s fun? Get a friend and in a crowded area, ask him/her if their leprosy is in full remission. Gets you elbow room every time.

Pain free, sleep bliss, M’dear…! *g*

Hi Margaret. Just went back up to read the comments. Hope you’re feeling better soon.

Night! Get all better soon.

Good night, Margaret.

He could always claim he just got back from fishing in Mono Lake.

Arsenic, hold the old lace please.

Saw that this morning. That is also pretty awesome for us evolution geeks.

OK. Time to retire, but before that, two pieces of good personal circumstances. (Seems that’s all one is confined to in light of dismal objective outside circumstances.)

Finally got my wood stove problems resolved, at no additional expense.

My driveway guy is working pretty steadily at getting the job completed before the worst problem times of year show up. Only took 6+ months of begging, pleading, and yes, being pouting baby.

Sleep well, all.

g’nite ecahn

We should have a poll who doesn’t plan to vote for Obama if we have a real Dem who promises jobs, help for home owners and promises to pay for it with higher taxes on the rich and and end to both wars.

Good night, eCAHN

And now OFA is sending out these e-mails urging everyone to “support” Obama as he “fights” to get DADT overturned.

Those hypocritical slimeballs [and that includes Obama himself].

Night!

Reminds me of the scene in Ghost where the guys get into the crowded Wall St elevator. One coughs. The other asks if it’s contagious. The first sez something like: My doc sez not so much.

Goodnight. I’m going to have to address a driveway issue evnentually, but I’m holding off for now.

The $64M question is, why?

The chemistry makes sense… just as Sr can substitute for Ca in a lot of physiological functions. But Ar is just so… rare.

Dont know why i still pick it up?

You bet it is. A second, separate evolution of life on Earth may just be the biggest news in the biological sciences since Watson and Crick. Therefore, it will be pushed to a couple of column-inches somewhere in back because it’s much more important to speculate as to who will be competing on Dancing With the Stars next season.

OMG, I snagged the #100.

Yay me.

That’s really cool stuff. I need to find the time to read up on that a little more. One of the folks on that project lives here in Gainesville, but it’s been a while since I’ve talked to him.

Has it been determined that is truly a second, distinct evolutionary event? Have they figured out the amino acid coding system? If it’s the same as ours, then it’s unlikely that it’s really distinct…

Indeed. A very interesting adaptation and I will be interested to see the results of the genetic analysis to see where it fits. Is it a relatively modern adaptation to the unique circumstances of Mono Lake or is this a remnant extremophile from the dawn of life?

Thanx for hysterically funny post, Jim. (as a lurker, now drunk enough to post something) Have a linky many in the DLC would thinky is stinky:

When I get mad and throw a tantrum like that, my Mom sends me to my room.

This reminds me of a story from when my son was little. He was a pretty big tantrum thrower, so got to spend time in his room.

Once I went up after a spell to check in on him. When I opened the door, he said, “it will cost you $.10 to come in, and $.25 if you want to talk to me.”

I had to close the door so that I could laugh as hard as I needed to.

Thanks, but feel free to comment any time. We mostly don’t bite…

Pouting Baby! Nice coinage in the word “sinator,” Jim.

I should toddle off. Work beckons once again tomorrow. One more week of lectures and then a week of grading hell and it is over for another semester.

g’nite dr dick

You is awesome! :)

Hey there – how’d the surgeon bout go today? Been thinking of you.

aww “shucks” I cant do anything right. ….

Well, the first step is figure out the coding system. Personally, I find the appearance of DNA suspicious… you need some sort of polymer to store protein coding, but DNA isn’t the only possibility.

I do, but only if I haven’t taken my meds on time.

Nighters. Looking forward to the students leaving in a couple weeks and temporarily gifting this town to we, the lowly rat people.

Question. Are the repugs baptized in Mono lake?

Goodnight.

I think I’ll turn in, too. Thanks everyone for a fun discussion.

I did finally get around to writing a tribute post about my mother.

g’nite jim — thanks for a great post tonight

I agree. It seems likely it has a common origin with other life on earth. The question is just when did it diverge.

Thanks! Went pretty well, I think. Can’t walk much for a couple weeks until the stitches are out. Hurts like hell but they gave me good drugs for that (wheeee!). Been awhile, I’d forgotten how much even a minor surgery takes outta ya. I am wiped out. Don’t suppose the hillbilly heroin could have anything to do with that… :)

Goodnight (and hi, too).

Maybe you could have added crybaby Boehner! Im not afraid really, just that most here speak my mind.

I love the late night extreme art for leftists.

It would explain a few things, wouldn’t it?

Thanks for LN duty Jim, sorry I lurched in late. Best to you and the esteemed Mr. Pouty Baby.

I was nighting DrDick… Sir Loin of Beef, if I’m not mistaken.

Yeah, I may have overstated that a bit. The important lesson is that, once again, the creationists got it WRONG.

never have seen that bird. A pixelated fukoo, wow!

edit link fixed

MODNOTE: link fixed

Still early in AK. See ya.

would you like me to use my magical mod powers and fix that link for ya?

I really love this youtube!

Oh! Always late to the party, how the heck is everyone?

Hey Suzanne,
We have the lightest suggestion of snow here, and I love it!

Good night, folks.

fixed — ya have to have text for the embed.. i added in link fixed since i didn’t know what you wanted the link called

g’nite bct

yay! no snow, and no rain here :)

Hi Chris. I watched the first episode of the BBC/HBO series “Rome” tonight. Seemed pretty good. Somehow I never realized before that folks in ancient Rome spoke The Queen’s English so remarkably well…

niters BC

Night BCT — I missed the entire conversation, but bonne nuit!

If you can, but I’ll still feel like a turd in the punch bowl. It may be better until I can be reasonable..Im a bit buzzed for my B’day

I’m going to join the diaspora. Peace out, y’all!

nite EDP

Thanks “mod”. Love ya!!!

g’nite edp

I don’t know anything about this series — off to check it out. How are you and Bob?

Latin’s a dead language, as you can plainly see; it already killed the Romans, and now it’s killing me!

hippo birdies two ewes
hippo birdies two ewes
hippo birdies deer kenergenx
hippo birdies two ewes
….. and mini s’mores….

welcome kenergenx, just wanted to warn you that Suz can put a keyboard breathalyzer interlock in place if you get a bit out of hand.

Catching up on the comments and wasn’t reading fast enough to say good night to those who wrapped up already.

Good nighters and hello to the rest of you.

Never better, thanks and you? Here is a link to the wiki entry about the series.

I once asked the bookkeeper at work if she had ever learned a foreign language and she said Latin. I told her I would accept that answer since it was still a living language when she was in school :)

I thought it was Suzanne, she’s so awesome!! wish all hellos and good night to all the pups who’ve left (you babies )/s

Happy Birthday, kenergenx!

Super! Thanks for this link.

aw shucks *blushing* twas my pleasure to help out

Thanks, I seemingly forgot that text part. slow learner but never forget.

Track record will win over promises for me this time around.

I suspect that you will enjoy it. Aside from speaking English the actors are (of course) too tall and their teeth too perfect but the writing is good and the production values are pretty high.

One thing that always strikes me about depictions of Ancient Rome is that the buildings typically look a lot like they do today, just more intact. They were considerably newer then, seems to me the stonework should be brighter… just to nitpick.

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I wish It wasnt!

Harumph! (rudis senex mussito.)

so you all seen that link…o’bummer losing at 3 dimensional chess.?

Ha! That’s always the funny thing — let me see your teeth!

*heh* Maybe because your Pharmacist didn’t translate your prescription properly…! ;-)

It’s all greek to me, btw…!

I don’t know latin, but know what Harumph means!

Happy Birthday!

Did you ever see the David Lynch film Wild at Heart? The character played by Willem Dafoe had the most vile teeth. Probably how most people should appear in historical dramas. Suppose I’m happy with that little bit of oral hygiene revision. A realistic depiction would undoubtedly prove distracting.

Hey Kelly! Long time no see!

Happy Birthday Kenergenx and Welcome!

OMG we did, that film made me feel super creepy!

CE!

Dayam I hate to be late to shit this good . . .

Jim White is RIGHT!

N dayam that’s the kind of snark I can dig my teething into.

Haven’t read comments, this praise and adulation goes out to Jim White, alone.

Yer a hoss, hoss.

*G*

Darling!

That’s my line, Groucho . . . nebber mine yer assumin elitist snarky ways . .

*G*

My pals…

thanks, but I’m not really a newbie, just been reinserted into the matrix.

I saw that on the big screen on a first date. A lot of people walked out, not us of course, being fans of Blue Velvet. It was mighty creepy, though.

Just heard a knock at the door. Think it might be this guy.

Wishing a splendid evening to all.

Ok, lemme make this clear.

I knew Harumph before most of you kitteh’s were tassles in the alley.

N it came from Blazing Saddles.

Only us old farts and fartettes are allowed to usurp this one.

Harumph!

(Hey! I didn’ get a harumph outta that guy!)

g’nite ratty

Its been nice to see Jane on the TV box again…hope she doesn’t say bj again

Thats right Larue.. Blazing Saddles, a classic.

Blue Velvet?

Husky voiced Isabella?

Only one surpasses then.

Kathleen Turner.
Sigh.

Ya know it totally sux when a certain website is getting hammered, when all one wants to do is download one mere cable…! More specifically…(#09TELAVIV2777) From Scipre…! *gah*

Uh, it was Emptywheel wih the ‘blowjob’ thang on major tv cable . . . bless Marcy’s heart . .

*G*

patience grasshopper

LOL! Just had an amusing moment with belch.

Background: we bought a new light fixture for the ceiling in the piano room/parlor. Nice and better than the one that was in there and it was something like $89 on sale at Loewes.

Well, one thing leads to another in these old houses (it’s 95 years old) and he felt he had to do a bit of ceiling/dry wall repair where the fixture goes.

Which led to painting the ceiling.
Which led to painting the room.
Which led to painting the heater vents.
Which led to varnishing the doors and woodwork – but wait!
The damn door needs to be shaved a bit since it doesn’t quite close all the way…
Which led to saw horses and door removal.

Anyhow, he just poked his head upstairs and said “Honey I’m going to bed – will you shut off the christmas lights in the window?”

To which I laughingly said “Hell no – if those mothers go out, I’ll have to buy replacements, and at the rate it takes to get a damn light installed here I don’t know if we can afford it!”

He was ready for me, that little stinker.

He popped all the way in the office with the goddamn drill – ZZZZzzz! ZZZzzz! “I KNEW you were gonna say that!

I can just never EVAH stay ahead of him. :)

Dude it only sucks when ya fail to tell us WTF yer talkin aboot, hoss!

*G*

So.

Whatcha tawkin aboot?

?

*G*

hahahaha

I wish I could remember, but Jane was on Dylan Ratigan against some asshat repiglican. “for the the love of dog cant we extend UComp during Xmas….”

That is really funny .. and touching too ..

*heh* It’s only a cable sent from our current Amb. to Israel upon Hugh Skelton’s personal tete-a-tete with Bibi at Likud HQ…! Last December…! ;-)

Ahhhh . . . n there’s the source of yer scriptures . . .

Kelly.

Love IS grand . . . minute by minute, day by day . . .

I’m gonna bust out bawlin like a baby . .

Cuz of you.

;-)

Hold ‘em close and love ‘em . . . . every day, hoss, every day.

Entitled: ‘Let’s Get on with Negotiations’

I shit you not…! *gah*

Well, then! Happy Birthday and Happy Reinsertion.

oh crap, oops, though it seems both were blacklisted. or maybe passed over for huffpo or (eeechpblth) marcos

Kelly that sounded like an extremely logical progression. Beautiful! I often describe a similar sequence with potential remodeling clients when they wishfully tell me that their simple project shouldn’t really cost too very much and relate to me that it only takes about 15 minutes on This Old House.

Is that related to coitus interruptus?

thanks dude/ette. good to be back from the dmz and crazy reichwing media.

oohmph I hope not

Nah, yer kewl . . . I do think there’s so much synergy in these people we honor and follow, that it’s easy to miskeep the quotes aligned with the author . . .

Its a grand place with grand authors . . .

Howdy welcome . . .

Don’t cry – belch is just out of his MIND!

You should see this 6’5′ screwball in his pajamas running around with a drill for the sake of a joke! He’s hilarious!

Nahant is up late!

Yep – ain’t that the truth?

butt really had a problem with my ISP. changed frequency and took along time for me to figure out how to fix. rerouted all the cable and put me computer first in line.

Make him a martooni, top shelf, a few more, tuck him in, and delicately extract the drills and tools.

N laff yer ass off . . . I got nuttin, be well . . .

Ya two make me smile, though . . . I sure ‘preciate that, Kelly.

*G*

well thanks Larue. Last time we texted you called me a troll. harumph.
I dont hold grudges against friends!

Kelly, sorry but who’s “belch” or is that nomb

I think we need to admit to the fact that the bad guys have won…for the forseeable future. Obama has succeeded in dragging us back into the days of a political climate where, unless you’re some kind of crazed want-us-to-fail “anarchic/leftist”, you buy all of the recycled bullshit about how things are getting better and, if they aren’t, then it’s the fault of anyone who insists on some vestige of reality when looking at what’s happening.

That’s why we’re getting silly shit like this, from Ben Sargent, a political cartoonist who is actually pretty liberal, for a Texas newspaper:

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/ben-sargent

Everytime I think about “fighting the good fight” I think of the president of the United States; the one to whom we gave a resounding victory and mandate two years ago, who is selling us out just as fast as he possibly can. When I do that, my energy and modest funds are going to be directed to one thing: pushing every political lever I can, to make sure that he doesn’t run again in 2012.

Tryin’ again:

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/ben-sargent

{RFL} Jim White and those Spokane folks, you have made my day! I need a handkerchief to dab my eyes …

I hope you got some decent rest last night, Margaret!