- “Six certainties about the coming years.
- “Hope in a cold season.”
- Although this gives waaaaaaaaaay too much benefit of the doubt to Obama, it’s a pretty good history of how indefinite military “detention” got legalized.
- When times get tough the tough get a backbone.
- There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a child. (ADDED: Although this has gotten coverage in every media outlet and blog this side of Alpha Centauri, I like Joel’s take on it the best.)
Dontcha sometimes feel like this? Well, not about baths, specifically. But about what lies in our future:
Re: Bath Dog- I tried that once, but the politicians just figured I was assuming the position and [—-]ed me anyway.
My older brother once had a dog that would do that, every time. After the struggle to get him into the bathroom in the first place.
No matter how many baths he got, he was always sure it was his last moment on earth. When you finally fought him into the water, he just sat there and shivered. Not our fault he insisted on rolling in crap.
The intruder wasn’t killed-he committed an odd form of suicide. He proved Darwin was on the right track.
Try giving a 16 pound tomcat a bath sometime..
Kudos the teen Mom defending her son, that is what a Mom is supposed to do! I like the website, Cornered Cat http://corneredcat.com/ and the concept, if you have to fight, fight like a cornered cat.
When my daughter turned 21 while expecting her first child, she bought her first handgun. She decided it was her responsibility frist and foremost to protect her daughter, not someone else’s.
Scott, that’s when the SCA begins to show practical applications: body armor, gauntlets. I saw it done (I suggested the steel gauntlets, in fact).
It was ruled a technical draw, but I would have awarded Monster additional points for most consecutive critical hits.
I don’t know if they _ever_ tried bathing him again, but it didn’t happen while I still lived down there.
And speaking of bathing our pet overlords…
http://www.bussjaeger.org/2010_03.html#petspa
“Try giving a 16 pound tomcat a bath sometime..”
… speaking of an odd form of suicide …
On the prediction about more face-recognition cameras: my family learned by accident that if your hairstyle is the kind where bangs hang down covering one eye, the software doesn’t recognize you as having a face. I’m sure some of us can pull that off more easily than others, but it’s an easy, subtle way of fooling the cameras.
On the mom with a gun: I wish I could take every story like that and force my dad to read them. He found out last month that I bought a handgun, and got so freaked out that for a week anytime the doorbell rang he’d start screaming “Don’t shoot em!!!!”
He’s not the one who sits at home alone all day. He’s the one who leaves for work before dawn and forgets to shut the front door behind him. Grrrrrr.
On bathing pets: cover your lap with a towel, get pet to cuddle up, “stroke” their fur with a damp washcloth. Easy-peasy. Even my cat enjoys her baths when given that way.
Joel’s right on this one…the real story is some punk-ass careerist puke not assaulting this girl with his “office”… good shooting mom!
+1 for the Cornered Cat website…..Kathy’s book is a must have, too – I’ve read it twice now and it’s “decorated” with post-it-tab markers LOL……
>“Try giving a 16 pound tomcat a bath sometime..”
19 lbs and neutered. He bit deep into my palm severing a nerve, causing fingers to go numb for months before it healed. My health insurance called me wanting to know the name of the owner so they could sue. I had no idea his jaws were that powerful.
Totally traumatic experience for him, and for his remaining ~14 years he would howl in fear if you were holding him while he was in sight of a sink.
At least it kept him off the counter in the kitchen.
Here’s a little thing, that should have been thought up years ago.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/05/new-hampshire-restaurant-bans-politicians/
Now we just need to get more people on board.
Pretty soon an ounce of Gold will be worth its weight in $100 bills.
I had the pleasure of working with Patricia Simonet for many years. She was the program manager at Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service (SCRAPS) and was in charge of our animal behavior program. Patricia’s dedication to understanding and helping animals was amazing. She was brillant in her research and will always be remembered for discovering dog laughter. Patricia is greatly missed but her memory lives on in the The Patricia Simonet Laughing Dog Park. She also wrote some brillant “petiquette” rules for the park which can be viewed on our website.