‘Subhuman Nastiness’ as the Grand Old Party

Last week, rabid Teabaggers at the Reagan Library and Aerospace Museum had only to be dusted with a particulate mist of death—a mere mention of Rick Perry’s fetish for gurneys and leather straps—before pointing their nostrils into the air like hounds with tacky spittle dripping from their fangs. Brian Williams had referenced Perry’s 234 human exterminations, and it was as though Santa himself had come to Simi Valley; what unleavened joy this herd took from the news of irreversible extinction and rotting flesh! Such charming souls …

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The Ill Will of Contemporary Conservatives

The GOP debates sure seem to bring out the worst of the worst people. Cheering for somebody to die to save pennies per person. Either their philosophy is morally bankrupt or they are. Or both.

And BofA stock is at 7.04 and expected to drop at the bell.

And my Great Pyrenees has got too big for the groomers cage, so they keep her in a pen out in the kennel. The pen has a concrete floor. Thus, she has learned to crap on concrete. Now when I let her out, she craps on the steps. Any suggestions?

Boxturtle (When a 120lb dog decides to take a crap, it’s a major event)

No nuclear fallout from nuke plant that blew up, killing one, burning some others, according to French govt. Oh sure.

Diaper?

Carpet your steps?

Chomsky is guest for the hour on democracynow. His book 9/11, Was There an Alternative is the hook for the interview.

There is so much wrong with the Blitzer/Paul question – the least of which is audiences hideous reaction. The whole scene highlights the decadent state of our culture.

Most notably wrong is the assumption that if the person is “intensive care” he/she won’t get treatment. They will. It’s the hospital’s and doctors obligation to treat a person in that state. It’s the “aftercare” where that person is literally screwed.

If the person has a “good” job, why would they not buy into the employer offered healthcare plan. Presumably, the compensation package would offer a so-called “Cadillac Plan” if it’s a good job. If he can’t afford $200-$300 bucks a month it’s not a good job in my book.

Thus, if the job is not “good” and doesn’t offer “Cadillac” coverage then a $200-$300 per month health insurance premium doesn’t offer aftercare, especially in the northeast. If you want to purchase health insurance, good insurance that offers care, treatment and rehab as well as affordable co-pays and prescription prices, then you’re looking at – a minimum – of $700-$900 per month. Even more in some parts of the country.

And probably most notably, this perfectly illustrates the “non-peronhood” the Underemployed/Unemployed currently find themselves. That number today is about 20-percent, most of these people presumably have no or very poor (i.e. cheap) insurance plans. Which means, any of these non-persons who are unfortunate enough to have children, is a double problem.

Finally, “Progressives” have little cause or right to chide the neanderthals in the audience for their reaction. Medicare For All would solve these problems. For decades, the rising cost of healthcare – 3-to-5 times the rate of inflation – has been one of the Top 3 issues voters have cited in poll after poll. Instead, the “Progressives” hook-up with phony baloney memes and solutions (“Public Option”) and enthusiastically endorse candidates who do the bidding of the HEalth Insurance and Hospital lobbies.

And things will get worse until that changes.

It looks to me as though that was a simple industral accident, a furnace exploded. Happens all the time, only reason it’s getting coverage is because it’s at a nuke waste plant.

I wouldn’t expect any radiation or fallout. If it were in the states, I’d expect a minor fine for failure to properly maintain.

Boxturtle (About 10 years down the road for that fine, though)

Ya know, that’s not a bad idea. I have a few feet of outdoor carpet about somewhere.

Boxturtle (Dog is dumber than a box of rocks. Just might work)

“Harbinger of things to come” – I would think that ‘too big to fail’ banks losing workers would be a good thing. They would then be smaller and hopefully able to fail if they have failed.

Also, I thought it was the common consensus that these people did not bring any value to American, that all they to is move money around to make more money.

It looks to me as though that was a simple industral accident

Oh lord, BT, I thought you were still talking about the poop on the stoop.

On a subject like that, I disbelieve every single word any govt utters on first principles.

Wow. That’s a tough one. Would feeding her on the steps (for a while at least) do any good, on the “you don’t crap where you eat” theory? GP’s are smart dogs, and I’m sure she can learn that “her” concrete is different from “their” concrete. Good luck because, as you pointed out, that’s a major event.

Yeah, and you could hose it off if she has an “oopsie.”

¡buenos días! Pupsters.

Fun song (move to time point 0:30 to begin)

;-)

Boxturtle, my #13 is for you. I keep forgetting that the “Reply” button doesn’t work here at work for some reason.

I was having problems with it yesterday, but from home, so something was going on, at least then.

Good morning fire-dogs. eCHAN, driving to the library (broadband access for internet schooling) later, thanks for the Chomsky headsup.

Then she will learn to shit in the house.

You have been linking to some fun tunes last couple of days. Thanks :)

¡De nada!

Did you see my dance how-to?

I luvs those kinds of dogs, but when I started gardening I didn’t need any “help,” putting the transplants in too deep.

The “tea party” cultists are a boorish, brutish and barbaric lot. They are no different than those Germans who turned Germany into a nation of savages.

Mornin’, BT, pups

I know one thing, BoxTurtle, I wouldn’t be takin’ my pupper back to that particular groomer. Feeding her on the steps or the outdoor carpet are good ideas.

Ya don’t think the applauders at 234 executions and the “let ‘em die” folks are self-centered, mean spirited people, do ya? Prolly walk right on by a person who collapsed in front of ‘em. Sure as hell don’t want ‘em on my team.

Dang it, no! I didn’t check back to the thread. Thank you, I always admired those 30s and 40s dances. Now I’m gonna learn to Lindy. :)

oh tou have a GP…you lucky dog…i mean human…Baz always craps on concrete when the du is is on the ground

Margaret@13: Feeding her on the steps in another good idea. GP’s may be smart dogs in general, but this one is dumb enough to enter a GOP debate.

Example: She rolls on her back when sleeping. When she’s in the hallway and she tries to roll off her back, her legs touch the walls on both sides. She thinks she’s trapped and somebody has to go push her to one side or the other so she can finish her roll.

Boxturtle (She also has no understanding of how large she really is)

Bluetoe @ 23 & SouthernDragon @ 34: I detected quite a bit of mindless, follow-the-leader behavior. Also, it’s TeeVee so that means a “hand-picked studio audience” (plants) plus celebrity-groupie sheeple.

I usually detest gossip, but every once in awhile, there’s one too juicy for me to pass by.

I was just wondering if Wolf had stipulated that the young man in question had lost his job and insurance, or simply could not afford it, would the reaction have been any different?

I doubt it, but I would like to have seen the response.

Lovely Chinese top on the “Club President.”

he said this in Iceland

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Noam_Chomsky_in_Iceland_Compares_Nixon_and_Kissinger_to_bin_Laden_0_382043.news.aspx

I’m sneaky. I also have a couple of husky’s who live for digging. I have an area of the yard I’ve set aside for digging. I bury a few milkbones there and they know if they dig there they might find one.

The GP isn’t smart enough to figure that out, she just digs wherethe others do.

Boxturtle (Attn China: That husky that just came out of the hole in your yard is mine)

Would be much more interesting if Levi did Sarah.

me too hahahahahaha

One couldn’t rule it out in that kind of family. *g*

Who sez he hasn’t? The family that lays together stays together.

Great minds, of course! Good morning!

You owe me a drink. If I need a third cuppa coffee, I’ll be calling on you.

Yes, I noticed it too. I saw some amazing textiles from Asia at the MN Arts Institute in August. Oh how I wanted to reach across that velvet rope….

Maybe it’s just me, but I have trouble with a dog shitting on a carpet — wherever it is.

argh@#$%^ please Huffpo alert…i never hit the Shit

Ron Paul is fun to provoke. He’ll have us all living in caves, back to nature and all. What would Thoreau have said about that hapless uninsured? I wonder if he would have abandoned his cabin if. . .

Blitzer raised a seriously good question which won’t go away under ACA. It will persist.

Blitzer’s question might go away under single payer with health care acknowledged as a “right.” Then guaranteed, substantially equivalent care is available to all, though it will be unavoidably limited in scope. No mandates there, no insurance in play, and no one has to do anything other than get sick to test it out. Then both those patients could have successful gall bladder excisions, but neither could have a new kidney or liver (and certainly not a new face) at single payer expense. Or, fill in that blank with any of a lot of other very expensive or experimental procedures.

Blitzer’s question could have been better finessed. Paul did the honest thing with that bait and remains as unelectable as before.

no,think,lynching type group stoopit think

Hey, playing in the dirt is fun every once in awhile.

Robert Alexander Dumas had a great link in his diary to Lee Camp – what do peanuts have to do with terrorism. http://my.firedoglake.com/tucsonrobert1/2011/09/12/need-a-perspective-adjustment-this-made-me-laugh-lee-camps-latest-vid/

I guess I would have been frog-marched out of Caturday had the local authorities known what I smuggled in….

Morning BT & Pups of Fire:

This would seem to be a problem.

Very telling graphical representation.

Digging was not the problem, simply mindless romping and tromping when on frequent property and boundary “marking,” patrol.

I pretty much rely on others for links to the corporate media but I haven’t seen any reports on the poverty and uninsured numbers released yesterday. They’re up, surprise, surprise.

I wonder how many in the audience were on SS and Medicare — or had an immediate family member on both programs.

dont need her for that TMZ much more honest…Ariannna take your 300 million to the Trough and pig out

My quarter horse got out of the fence once and romped and tromped through my neighbor’s beautiful and extensive vegetable garden. That was truly one of the low spots of my life.

or the wonderful V A

The French government would be less likely to lie to their citizens. The French have no reservation about tearing up the streets and building barricades. The U.S. government has no problem lying to their “citizens” knowing full well a passive “people” demand lies to confirm and validate their ignorance and their idiotic sense of exceptionalism.

me likey life in Gaul

Mah grrlfren handles security but she likes peanuts.

snails with with basil-garlic butter

ooooo, yummy

meanwhile Cuba inspires

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/cuba-releases-worlds-first-lung-cancer-vaccine

Socialist!

Yes, I can see that you 4 have no trouble getting on a plane. Just don’t all of you go crowding into the lavatory together, tho.

Is this an older pup? Also a possibility of urinary infection and/or incontinence problems. As mine got older they definitely needed to walk so they could poop. When they got really old, it was clear that I needed to lift them and take them outside. Their organ failure was evident in the color of their gums.

with chevre, so there!

uhm basil garlic butter on anything,the leches i can do without….hahahaha

Sarkozy is a rightwing nut of Hungarian (I think) background*. I wouldn’t put anything past him.

*I looked up his wiki to make sure and look what else Sark is: Co-Prince of Andorra.

On edit: I didn’t intend any slur on Hungary, but realized afterwards that my comment sounds that way. All I meant was that he does not come 100% from the French tradition you refer to.

did i tell ya the west and south…look eggzactly like Tn.?

Read about the plane that landed due to some suspicious activity and it was a couple in the loo joining the Mile High Club?

Hey, Sadly, let’s host a progressive dinner here at the Lake sometime.

oh my…hahahhahaha..he is teh impressed with his little self,no?

Great Idea,ill be the bartender,okay?

Om Ali:
Being potentially frog marched because of the peanuts inthe cookies might not be as bad as what I suffered. There were some “scout” ants that got to my plate of sugar cookies on the kitchen table yesterday afternoon. Threw them out and was glad Reader made me stop after 2 batches.
This morning, we discovered the he-ugest ant attack in the kitchin I’ve ever seen. Up through a central air vent in the diningroom, up a wall, through the pantry, up over the ceiling to the other side, through the sink and then out the window above.

demi and I had fun with that! They must have been skinny, don’t you think?

I hate public restrooms of any sort, but plane lavatories hold a special sort of horror for me.

How could anyone even contemplate doing that?? I would have been frantic not to touch a single surface!!!!

Holy.Crap.

Wow. You must be in damage control mode.

I guess there is a kind of beauty to it, like the Amazon river or something, on your dining room ceiling.

Morning All!

So glad I was too darn busy to even think about that Clown show last night. The crazy burns like wildfires! Surely people don’t see a leader of the country in that group.

Yes! Seriously, let’s talk about it some more soon. I’m sure we would have lots of host/attendees.

in the days of the one piece jumpsuit,many a sleeve went into bluwater commode

I was in the “spray” mode. Why I was late here. I’ll go back in a bit for the fun wiping everything mode. Just a nifty end of summer parting gift from nature.
I’ll usually do Simple Green, but for this party, I grabbed the R*id!

Bill must do the baking!…yea,sounds like a real good time

In the days of the one piece jumpsuit, I would have been wearing an airline blanket if that had happened to me. I.am.about.to.barf.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,769

US KIA Irak: 4,474

Iraki, Afghan and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2011: 31,620 and counting

Bits and Pieces OMG

No war but class war

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things

Namaste

Never. Give. Up.

It is an awful mess. I sympathize. And the really sad part is that they are such amazing creatures. We need to invent a sort of Pied Piper to lead the ants back out of the houses.

hahahahahahahha
hon,i lived in India,nuf said

Pied Piper is the sugar cookie,just put em outside

Hej då, SD.

But are you staying off of your foot? ;) How is it doing?
Good Morning All….

Some of the places I’ve been did away with any sensitivities I may have had.

Dry cat food draws them at my house, for some reason. Even more than sweet stuff.

Sarkozy’s popularity is in the dumpster. The French are not enthralled with his vision of turning France into a Gaulic version of the U.S.. Even without DSK running in the election of 2012 there are several attractive Socialist candidates that have a real shot of defeating Sarko.

me too,have a lovely day

toilet paper. never leave home without it.

Hi RevBev, how is Angela today?

Lovely.

goody,if the Euro goes down enuf,i could afford a little farm perhaps

I threw those out yesterday. Today I threw out the triscuts and cereal in the pantry.
There’s a joke about a guy who goes into a pawnshop and buys a statue of a rat and walks it all around New York. All the rats follow him all the way down to the harbor where he throws the rat statue off the pier and the rats all follow it into the water.
The next day the guy goes back to the pawn shop and asks if they have a statue of a lawyer. Ba dump dum.

tp,check,aspirin check,a little 100 proof vodka,check….

Heyah! How are you doing?

I wonder if we can purchase those Japanese bathtubs you were describing, here in the states.

A doll…sleeping on her back, feet up, right beside me. She would say “hi” were she not knocked out…;) Thanks. And, how are you? We are having first hints of fall…

It’s much better. 5 more days of meds.
How am I going to get the ant mess cleaned up while staying down?
Every day I’m up a little more, the pink color is almost gone but I’m just so exhausted and kind of loopy.
Thank you for asking.

Just blows me away. I wish I had taken a fine arts degree in textiles and conservation.

lol…politicians too

Very well, thanks…And you? A huge turnout on Caturday….What a gift.

Quick search

my husband wanted one….they are deep

I can just picture you both, that sounds pretty blissful. I hope you will bring a photo of her to Caturday sometime soon.

Good, here. I am going to farmsit for my son over the next few days. I will have 18 acres, a river, the grandchickens, Rodriguez the goat, Charlie the cat, and Harley the dog all to myself though Sunday.

It has been over a year since I slept with a cat! Good thing Charlie likes to cuddle.

wowie zowie…he wanted that,and i wanted a tandor oven…great imports imo

missed it…must go read it

Now THAT is some kind of good therapy.

lucky you!

Can’t wait to spend some time at that link. Thanks. Good, I see that Sadly saw it, too.

Just watch the claws….I have numerous points of affection….

*G* But nothing else is as snuggly. When a little paw pats you on the cheek……oh my.

a great bath,and great bread…ahhhhhh creature comorts,did i say butter…buttah is important,today the Amish store is having a sale!!! must go get BUTTAH!

Amazing that Perry averred that he cannot be bought for $5000 and offended by that assertion….I do recall a joke about setting a price does not est. what you are….

You were scarce yesterday. Everything ok?

my longhaired Harry snuggles every nite,so i cant even move,did i say its hot in the summer,he is a fur coat on a hot night

It sounds like they gave you the proper meds, though, and you are definitely healing.

BxT:

It would have been interesting had Blitz qualified the question further…”The patient is pregnant and both mother and baby are in distress and both will died without medical intervention.”

Cheers then?

do you like butter, Sadly??

well guys,have a beautiful day..see ya later

Okay, it’s settled. I’ll just close up this house, jump in the Lear and meet you at the river.
Shall we gather at the river?

Busy at work and mostly lurk during the day except during lunch and stay off the machine weeknights.

Bye. You are so much fun! XOXOXO

Aren’t they funny…and you would miss him so much if he found another sleeping place, Im guessing. Funny how they own the place.

It’s out of the shop! Yay! Wonder if you would be allowed to dangle your feet in the cool, clear, rippling water……

It’s starting to itch too, now. That means healing, right?
Scared me enough so that I didn’t have that beer I wanted on Sunday.

No, they’d be “save the baby and let the mother die” and once the baby’s born it’s on its own.

Buttah is perfect!

Glad none of the little ones was having problems.

Buh bye, Sadly.

I thought that too.

It would be worth asking the question again with the added details.

Let the the whole TP mindset be aired on national tele. It’s simply evil.

I think that is a sign of healing, yes. Better to miss a beer than maybe have a relapse and end up on an IV.

I’d better go too, need to find my fly reel!

Come join me, demi!

You guys all have the very best of mornings, see you later :)

ohmmm

Take her out to the grass (or whatever) beyond the cement everytime you let her out. Repeat until she gets the idea. Use a pet (no pun intended) phrase each trip. The process is laborious, but stick to it. Eventually, you can use the pet phrase to encourage her to keep moving beyond the cement.

(Returning for a few minutes)

As opposed to the intentions of the medical research “geniuses,” in the WI legislature wanting to disembowel Madison education and the Democratic base in the state.

Speaking of textiles I once bought the ex a full length emerald green silk dress with the high collar and long sleeves in Hong Kong. Embroidered on the top of the collar and cuffs. Strawberry blonde with green eyes. Stunning.

Didn’t see one fish but had fun last week standing in my canoe (kinda like running with scissors) and fly casting. Relaxing and meditative as all get go.

I’m glad I was still lurking a bit and saw that. I spewed!! I need to email my old boss at the law firm, right now!

Very nice image. Dreamy.

She does sound stunning. Now I have some Caturday questions!

nonqui, that sounds really good. You must have very good balance. Did you know that those paddle boards that you stand on are getting very popular now?

We have a canoe but call it the divorce boat :) I would really like a lake kayak.

I’m with you on the fly casting. I truly don’t care (and almost hope I don’t) about catching a fish. Meditative is really the right term.

yikes it is almost 10. bye again!

You crack me up, doll.

And no mosquitoes this time of year! Here’s hoping misfortunes (foot, ants) don’t come in three’s. After the big weekend, some of the more remote places around here won’t see a tourist until next season.

LOL, I’ve got two canoes, and the balance thing comes from standing and using a push pole to propel the small craft. Won’t buy into the stand up paddle boards, I don’t look good in neoprene, but I like to get out on the water when it is no longer warm enough for swimming and to have a place to put my camera, a small lunch cooler, and a fishing pole. Good day everyone.

Wow, that sounds wonderful…going over 100 again today….

BAC hit 7.19 and close at 7.00 I believe

The joke is that Perry’s love was actually bought by $200,000 – the drug lobbyist “friend”‘s gift.

The other question is did he giver the money back when it turned out he could not force 6th grade girls to have a medical procedure via his executive order – so the drug company never got its increase in sales.