Saturday plushy

Sometimes I just walk into a room, and there he is, being ridiculously cute.

Bonus kitties

Here is.... ummm, I don't know his name, but he's the homely kitty that lives upstairs and comes down to hang out with Maxx.
He's taken to coming in the apartment, which Maxx actually tolerates, though he does make sure homely kitty knows exactly whose house it is.



And of course here's lion kitty Maxx, demonstrating why he's the plushiest kitty of them all.

Friday Plush

Maxx spends a lot of time playing with his particle accelerator these days.

Atri-kitty!!!

I'm sorry, but I had to steal this from Atrios. Gizmo looks like he just saw Ann Coulter.

Oh, my. Jack "motherfucking" BURKMAN!!!

Via Atrios who links to Wonkette, we learn that Jack Burkman is a slime sucking pig.

It’s getting so that a couple nice young girls can’t drive up to DC for the Pride parade without getting openly propositioned by Republican Strategists who give them their real names and business cards these days. Take, for example, the MySpace blog of one such lady, whose sordid tale is reprinted (as a warning to the well-endowed) below:
The initial proposition:

afterward, we got a snazzy hotel room at the mayflower downtown. on the way over there, this really hot business man in a pinstriped suit walked past me, said hello, and doubled back. he asked me my name and introduced himself (jack burkman, government relations strategies), asked where i went to school, etc, gave me his card, and asked me to call him. i later texted him and never could get rid of him again. he thought he talked to me on the phone several times, but he never did. i always made kat or kristin be me. he told kristin about how he really enjoyed my outfit (TITS GALORE) and that i was beautiful, etc. by the end of the night (5 am or so), he was offering to pay for our room and give us a thousand dollars if two of us would fuck him. oh, jack burkman. his card is my DC souvenir.

Is this a surprise? why, no!! Jack Burkman is the odious, putrescent, smirking piece of crap who made the charge on Scarborough that the 9/11 widows hired literary agents within 48 hours of their husband's deaths. (see Media Matters story). Not surprisingly, he's a close friend and defender of Ann Coulter. Dead, rotting carrion eating birds of a feather decompose together, I suppose.

The young lady in question got curious and googled Burkman. What. An. Idiot. He gave her his real name and business card. Republican strategists, too stupid to live.

One thing does shock me.... this girl thought Burkman was "hot"??? Quelle horreur!!

Condolences

NTodd's mother passed away this morning after a long illness. Please visit Dohiyir Mir and give him your support.

Lion kitty and I extend our deepest sympathies for his loss.

Sleepy kitten

Sometimes kittens are the only antidote.

Camouflage Kitty

Just because.

2500

AFP/Azher Shallal

The number of american war dead is now 2,500. At the White House, Tony Blow remarked, "It's a number." He added that Bush "feels very deeply the pain that the families feel." Yes, I'm sure. Glad you can count, asswipe.

In the meantime, the Senate has rejected setting any time tables for a pull out of US troops.

In the house, republicans engineered a daylong debate in the House, where Republicans defended the war as key to winning the global struggle against terrorism while Democrats excoriated President Bush and his policies.

Chief republican house asshat Denny Hastert said, "We must stand firm in our commitment to fight terrorism and the evil it inflicts throughout the world. We must renew our resolve that the actions of evildoers will not dictate American policy."

That's funny, since the republican party is in charge, doesn't that mean that the evil doers are already dictating American policy?

It's my guess that the woman in the photograph would disagree with fat Denny. The bloodstained clothing she holds belonged to her late husband. American soldiers killed killed him on June 12th. At least 3,800 iraqi civilians have died so far this year in war-related violence.

Can someone tell me how making everyone on the fucking planet hate our guts is going to make me safer? I thought not.

Police State

A Brookly judge ruled yesterday that the US goverment has broad powers to detain non-citizens indefinitely. Without explanation. The NY TImes has details here: Judge Rules That U.S. Has Broad Powers to Detain Noncitizens Indefinitely

A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled yesterday that the government has wide latitude under immigration law to detain noncitizens on the basis of religion, race or national origin, and to hold them indefinitely without explanation.

The ruling came in a class-action lawsuit by Muslim immigrants detained after 9/11, and it dismissed several key claims the detainees had made against the government. But the judge, John Gleeson of United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, allowed the lawsuit to continue on other claims, mostly that the conditions of confinement were abusive and unconstitutional. Judge Gleeson's decision requires top federal officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Robert S. Mueller III, the F.B.I. director, to answer to those accusations under oath.

Silly me, thinking US laws and the constitution applied to everyone, not just citizens. And how kind of the judge to let the suit continue, on the grounds that the confinement was "abusive."

I suppose it's okay to deprive people of their freedom as long as we're nice about it.

Disgusting.

Thersites' deepest wish granted

I know that Thersites weeps at night because he does not have a lion kitty of his own. But weep no more my friend, help is at hand. Via National Geographic, Hypoallergenic" Cats For Sale, U.S. Firm Announces.

The world's first hypoallergenic cats may soon be curling up and purring in the laps of allergy sufferers, a U.S. company announced yesterday.

Allerca, Inc., a biotechnology firm in San Diego, California, is now taking orders for its Allerca Gene Divergence (GD) kittens.

Lion kitty Maxx is so happy for you.

Your daily Plush

Lion kitty Maxx has generously offered to donate his image to the Gore 2008 campaign.

Good kitty!

Iraq is still broken...

Reuters/Ceerwan Aziz

AP/Khalid Mohammed

...in spite of chimpy's heroic visit yesterday. Try to imagine living in this chaos. Feh.

Pasty is a Cock Obsessed Nutter

Holy Crap. Sadly, No! takes Pasty, AKA Jeff Goldstein, to task for being, well, pretty much insane. The smackdown is a thing of beauty.

Go read the whole thing here: Wingnut All-Star: Jeff Goldstein (Part I).

I guarantee you'll be fascinated, repulsed and amazed.

Celebrating his neo-birfday

Somebody decided to celebrate his neo-birthday by getting silly with his particle accelerator.

Happy Birthday Flory!!

It's the fabulous Flory's birthday today!!! Maxx sends her many, many purrrrs and offers to share his birthday paté with her. What a nice kitty.

Evil Ratfucker

I'd like to link to the original, but it's slashdotted. So here's a link to Atrios' post on the odious Karl Rove.

Karl Rove Taking Bullets?


Never one to let the facts or delicious irony stand in the way of a vicious political smear, today Karl Rove took a swipe at war heros Sen. John Kerry and Rep. John Murtha, stating, "They may be with you for the first few bullets but they won't be there for the last tough battles." Rove, of course, never served in battle, dodging the draft for nearly three years of the Vietnam War. He's in good company, though-- the Vice President received five deferments from going into battle himself.


"Unfortunately for the American military, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and their merry band of draft-dodgers won't be with you for the first few bullets, the last tough battles, or anywhere along the way," said Christy Setzer, Communications Director, Senate Majority Project.

Perhaps Karl would like to tell america's war veterans what it feels like to actually go to battle? Oh wait, he can't, can he? He is the most despicable man on the face of this earth. Truly.

And I'm with Eli on the "non-indictment" issue. In spite of Jane's postmortem of the day's events, I'm disgusted. Rove helping to get rid of Cheney? Somehow that only seems like it will help the republican establishment.

I know some high level republican operatives here in Austin. They all know Karl Rove really, really well. To a man, they hate him. As one of them told me, "He's brilliant, but he's the most evil, amoral motherfucker I've ever met in my life." The bastard has made a career out of lying, and has been richly rewarded for it.

I will never be satisfied until that evil, fat fuck gets everything that's coming to him.

What all the smart kitties are reading

No comment necessary. Follow Hidey's example and get a copy.

Happy Birthday, Maxx!

Maxx's first birthday card of the day.

This video was made by Jeffraham and Curly- what excellent friends we have!! thanks guys.

Carrots

We prefer carrots to pumpkins anytime.