Open thread 12/14/23
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The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
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— Epoch Animal Lovers (@EP_AnimalLovers) December 12, 2023
Cats are such assholes. And that dog is a pussy. 😀
Our 65 lb Woodle (standard poodle/Wheaton terrier mix) is completely cowed by one of our two cats—the jerk cat. But it’s not because he’s been attacked, it’s because when the jerk came into our home as a tiny kitten, he fell in love big-time with our dog. They would play and cuddle, but after about a year the cat got all Fatal Attraction-ey and would NOT be IGNORED, causing the dog to slink away whenever the jerk comes near. Which power, of course, the cat, being a jerk, has come to relish.
We once had very(very) smart indoor/outdoor cat. Alley savy from having lived on QA hill in Seattle for many years. When the dirty girls of Seattle blacklisted my DH and myself we were forced to move in with my DD. DD had a very smart Maltese. Dear cat hated his new indoor life but he was older and wiser and adapted. He created moments of pure laughter for all involved including the Maltese who was always at the but end of the joke! Many of those jokes involved a staircase just like the one in the video! Thank you for the memory and the smile today!
Headhunters at Booze Allen will not hire Harvard graduates. Why not? Because too entitled and too insubordinate, says people there have told him, James Lindsey.
In fact, the theme of his interview a week ago is “Don’t hire college graduates. Don’t hire college graduates. Don’t hire college graduates.”
WHT? Because universities will not reform unless their incentives structure changes away from indifferent. If the demand falls, then they face consequences for turning Harvard, for instance, toxic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZqtjR_gFjo
Simple lessons from the School of Hard Knocks is well deserved.
Hi Anne
So sad about Seattle. I know what you mean. I moved to Seattle in 1975 after spending some years in the Yukon. What a wonderful time. There was a sense of adventure in the air; the loud roar of the float planes landing on Lake Union, the low bellow of fog horns from the Puget Sound ferries, the smell of the salt air wafting up from the Sound and the clouds receding to display the majesty of the Olympics. Such a great city built on the strong backs of lumbermen, fishermen, traders, construction guys like me and those seeking freedom and independence to accomplish what they could on their own initiative. Sadly all gone now replaced by spineless grifters.
As an aside, Mrs X and I first looked to QA for residence but settled in Capital Hill until we purchased a house in Madrona neighborhood. I am sure that with my values that I would have no standing in the Seattle of today. I left in 1993 never to return.
well Booz Allen has a history of bad hires, like Snowden, vetting the Washington Navy Yard Shooter, James Woolsey, who got himself into quite a mess,
an interesting novel called the 500, by a former Atlantic reporter, is a modern version of the Firm, where an ambitious young lawyer is hired by a prominent firm, whose CEO is a mysterious character, (I picture Donald Sutherland for the boss) who has collected many skeletons of prominent people,
OBH – Absolutely!
Cats are dodgy as hell & that dog should just eat that feline furball.
The dog reminds me of our DOD and DOS and the cat is Iran. ‘Tain’t funny!
QA Hill = Queen Anne Hill, DD = Dear Daughter (?).
The “mean girls of Seattle” is the start of a story?
It seems Seattle has gone down the drain over the past 15 years, but as bad as Portland?
Dogs are very perceptive more than people
Well they had their chop district so
Re: Black Humor Dept.
For all the conservative pessimism about 2024, I assure you the Dems are having their sleepless nights over Joe Biden.
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Will Jill Biden save the Democrats?
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As we accelerate toward election day 2024, it’s becoming clear that there is only one person in the country who might be able to dissuade President Biden from seeking a second term. That person being his wife, Jill Biden….
Literally every single Republican or conservative I know is hoping and praying that President Biden is the Democratic nominee in 2024. There’s a reason for that.
Likewise, every single Democrat I know is hoping that Biden steps aside and gives his approval to the Democratic National Committee to open the process so Vice President Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and others can battle it out for the 2024 nomination.
As of now, it appears that only one person in the country can make those Democratic hopes become a reality: first lady Jill Biden.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4357914-will-jill-biden-save-the-democrats/
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Help me, Obi Wan Jill Biden. You’re my only hope.
–Carrie Fisher, “Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cc_h5Ghuj4
Open thread comment. The UN Climate Conference e (COP 28) has needed. They have promised to transition off fossil fuels by 2050.
Micheal Mann, top CAGW proponent claims, “The agreement to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ was weak tea at best,” he told AFP. “It’s like promising your doctor that you will ‘transition away from donuts’ after being diagnosed with diabetes.”
But Miichael, there are affordable, abundant, reliable alternatives to donuts. Solar and wind are not affordable, reliable, or practical.
Anyway, if you want to read the bad news such as, “With every vague verb, every empty promise in the final text, millions more people will enter the frontline of climate change, and many will die.”
The whole article is here:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/14/many-will-die-climate-scientists-respond-to-cop28-fiasco/
Re: Carrie Fisher
Thinking back, I can’t believe Carrie has been dead since late 2016 and her mother, the late, great “Singin’ in the Rain” Debbie Reynolds, a couple months after.
You could do worse this holiday season than curling up with some hot cocoa and watching “Postcards from the Edge” based on Carrie Fisher’s black humor memoir, played by, and knocked out of the park, by Shirley Maclaine (Debbie Reynolds) and Meryl Streep (Carrie Fisher).
I never warmed to Meryl Streep until “Postcards.”
Michael Mann, the hockey stick fraudster, hates mankind, but loves his subsidized government research. He can f. off and die.
Like jason or freddy he never goes away
And hes built the foundation that cop 28 scam was built on.
Mark steyn had yet to be heard on a defamation case about an opinion 13 years ago
Dogs can smell emotions. Your scent changes based on your emotional state. Dogs can also work from cues given by facial expression, posture, and tone of voice to get more information about your state of mind. And dogs aren’t distracted by a lot of random thoughts and ideas swimming around in their heads, so yes, they are very perceptive.
If, per Tucker Carlson, “corporate media is dead,” what is the alternative he’s offering with Tucker Carlson Network?
Probably populist media – not owned by or beholden to corporate interests. If so, I like it already.
I thought it was interesting how the dog tried so hard to be non-confrontive with the cat. Note the way the dog backed up to sit on the top stair, then pause, before continuing.
‘course the cat was having none of it.
and her mother, the late, great “Singin’ in the Rain” Debbie Reynolds, a couple months after.
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The next day.
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Carrie Fisher ruined her health with street drugs and prescription drugs. (There were traces of several street drugs in her bloodstream detected in her autopsy). She was still using at age 60. There’s no helping some people.
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Cats are such assholes.
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No, they’ve just got your number.
The next day.
Correct.
She was still using at age 60. There’s no helping some people.
Sadly true. My little sister is dead at 61. We haven’t gotten the autopsy report back yet. I’m not optimistic. She OD’d on fentanyl six weeks ago and barely survived.
I loved her, she loved me, she tried so hard…
So sorry huxley.
My condolences, huxley.
Condolences and prayers huxley.
Death like that is always so sad. huxley please hold on to your good memories of her and let the bad ones fade.
huxley, how very hard. I’m so sorry.