"I'm not sure why so many online Clinton supporters seem to be lashing out angrily at Obama supporters, instead of at the people who ran Clinton's campaign. If they'd just done things a little bit differently in February they'd have won this."
Thanks to BIE reader Robert for sending this gorgeous bit of comic relief my way.
I admit it, I'm an animal lover. Every morning I take bread out to the birds who flock around me at 5AM waiting to be fed. I also get a mating pair of ducks up to the house from the lake looking for handouts from time to time and they'll actually hop in my lap if I'm seated in order to scarf bagels from me. It's a lot like being Dr. Doolittle — except without the two way conversation — and more duck poop of course.
Then, around sixish my scurry of squirrels shows up.
At present there are five grey squirrels that come by every morning: Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris Badenov, Natasha and Mr. Big.
Rocky — letting me know it's time to eat.
Rocky was the very first ever to show up, arriving on my doorstep about three years ago. She is the mother of Natasha and Mr. Big as far as I can tell and is very much the most fearless of all the squirrels, one time even walking into our living room and staring down Moby the pitbull from less than two feet away before turning and calmly walking back out onto the front porch. Moby was quite shocked needless to say.
Rocky routinely comes right up to me and stands on my foot to take her food directly from my hand.
Rocky and the rest of the scurry love Trader Joe's organic wheat tortillas yet they will turn their noses up at QFC or Safeway organic wheat tortillas if I try to sneak them by them. Go figure.
All the squirrels love Trader Joe's pecans — unsalted of course.
Boris enjoying his tortilla.
I haven't seen Rocky in a couple of weeks but before she disappeared she was looking a bit heavy, was eating much more than usual and her titties were just a tad pendulous.
I suspect we'll have some new mouths to feed in the coming weeks.
Rocky — striking a pose.
A truly bizarre McSenile for president campaign commercial.
As Matt Yglesias posits, pairing the candidate with his eleventy eleven year old mother was probably designed to make him look less old.
"In reality, this was a generational fight. It was a fight between those that came to power during the post-McGovern era and those that aspire to power in the post-Bush era.
It was between a party that relied on the white blue collar ethnic vote and a party that relies on majorities from non-whites, non-Christians, and the generation of whites that grew up well integrated with them.
It was between a party that came to rely on corporate money and union muscle just to be competitive with Republicans and a party that has learned the new fundraising and social networking skills of the Information Age."
Team McCain must be really desperate. Here, from a notebook stolen from the McCain campaign by Democratic political operatives, are some of the catch phrases the McCain people are trying out in an attempt to counter the youth {and much better catch phrases} of the Obama campaign.
Hysterically prepared by Lee Camp at Open Left.
"A little nitpicky, but he's still citing a country that no longer exists… McCain just said the United States should set up a missile defense system in Czechoslovakia. Should we assume he meant the Czech Republic?"
That's just great! This dementia addled nitwit doesn't even realize there hasn't been a Czechoslovakia for like FIFTEEN YEARS!
During a possible future European crisis a president McCain will probably order one of his staff to hop on his velocipede and run down to the Western Union office in order to send telegrams to the Prussian government and Franz-Joseph the Austro-Hungarian Emperor!
P.A.T.H.E.T.I.C.
Years ago, before he got his gig on MTV, adorable twink Simon Rex did three jack off vids. Here are scenes from the making of one of them.
