Open Thread – Equinox Visitor
Look who came to call on the Autumnal Equinox! This guy kind of waddled all around the perimeter of the lawn, munching on rose hips and old raspberries. He will not get scurvy.
Buf the dog ran over barking like crazy and then … stopped. The porcupine turned around, still chewing, and displayed its giant, thorny backside. Then it went back to eating. That was enough for the dog who has learned the hard way about these creatures. A dog does not forget a chin full of spines and a Leatherman tool.
I had seen this fellow around before, but this time I took my time, inching up to him a few steps at a time and managed to get about 7 or 8 feet away. He was a good sport.
We had a family of skunks come through the yard today, glad my dawgs were kenneled up.
i love it.
they are awesome
AKM… he does look like a good sport and he still looks like he has that big brown eye on you as well though. 7-8 feet…. THAT looks like a ‘ safe ‘ stopping point.
Hard to say…But in comparison with the bushes and foliage around him…. He does look BIG. Glad we got to see your ‘ friend ‘.
Sadly, some dogs do NOT learn. Glad Buff is a smart one.
You do indeed have a smart dog if he’s learned. I’ve taken quills out of the same dogs a good half-dozen times before the owners wised up!
great picture
So adorable! I like his don’t-mess-with-me, flinty stare.
Once again you have shown your talent in a sticky situation!
Great shot. Lucky you to be able to see things like this and be able to record and share! Lucky us, too, also!
Wonderful picture. Thank you.
Buf is lots smarter than the average dog! I know dogs that have been “skunked” half a dozen times and just don’t learn. I’ve heard of dogs that have had run-ins with porcupines repeatedly. Silly critters. LOL
BTW, baby porcupines are the cutest things!
This guy reminds me of a much less huggable version of my backyard ground hogs. And I’m just as stupid as the average dog because I find myself wanting to hug him anyway !
Instead of taking up a bunch of posts for recent right wing news, here’s the link to my twitter page. You’ll find a number of new articles including info about the census worker that was killed and an upcoming conference that supposedly makes the Values Voter Summit look sane. Also Beck, Palin and general extreme right insanity.
http://www.twitter.com/palintruthwatch
Oh, and Gramiam , you have mail !
Good dog Buf.
Exited an auditorium once only to find a skunk blocking the path. He turned tail up to me, and I dove over the wall. The people behind me got skunked and I got out of there without. “Taking one for the team” just didn’t seem appropriate at the time.
Excellent ‘capture’..of a lovely dining experience..and yes..a certain, calm..sense of self. I have a bag of quills collected from about 6 years ago..waiting to be worked into something with beading…work keeps ‘happening’ though. If I sit quietly..at m’moniter..I think I hear..a business-like lil crunchin’..goin’ on…..
In many Native traditions Porcupine is associated with the winter season.
S(h)e visits you at the time of the autumnal equinox and lets you know that there is a story to share by allowing you to be close.
Beautiful! We thank you both!
The look in the porcupine’s eye makes it look like it’s thinking..” one more step, and….” Glad you got the picture.
what a cutie. i think the creatures just love to come visit, they know all about the magic camera and the luscious food to eat and toys to play with. who could blame them…bubs
You have a smart dogs….mine not so much.
Two trips to the vet to remove spines in the past two years. We have had to work hard to keep them off of our property.
Porcupines have a definite odor about them – very, very musky.
Just when you think you’ve heard it all with the teabaggers and the 9/12 nonsense, there’s always a bit more!
Guess who’s one of them ? Chuck Norris ! Yep – he’s calling on people to stain the flag with tea and run it up the pole.
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/chuck-norris-abandon-american-flag-or-stain-it-with-tea/comment-page-1/#comment-33034
I swear – I thought it was a Borowitz piece. Had to be, right ? Nope. It ain’t.
Check it out and leave a msg. Mine’s in moderation over there. Here it is in case they don’t let it out.
>>>Mr. Norris, what in the world are you thinking? This is a country that should be growing out of a bully mentality adolescence and beginning to mature. What you are doing is equal to riling up the gang and yelling, “let’s get ‘em !”
This is not an action film Mr. Norris, this is real life in a country of many millions of citizens and thus, a country of many differing opinions and ideals. But for goodness sake we should be at a point of being able have reasonable debate based on critical thinking. Screaming “eeeeYAH!” while hoisting flags of rebellion and war in this day and age is ridiculous and dangerous . What is your end game ? Storm the White House ? A coup?? You decked out in automatic weapons and ready with your best martial arts moves, bandana wrapped around your forehead, leading the masses? Do you see yourself drop kicking the front door of the White House and delivering a movie line like, ” We were in the neighborhood and just thought we’d drop by”.
It’s one thing to disagree and be angry about what you feel is the country going in the wrong direction but this is not a third world country. It is a democracy and we are mature adults (or should be). Act accordingly and stop being over the top reactionary. Run for office if you want to make a difference. Get out there and speak your mind, but do it without inciting riot. For goodness sake, you really want to tea stain the flag???? Eeeeesh!! <<<
Cool picture!
One of the real reasons Palin bailed on Alaska?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/24/783846/-I-think-we-now-know-why-Palin-REALLY-quit-her-day-job.
>>After the stock market closed yesterday, it was announced The Alaskan dividend will be less than half what it was last year.
The reduced payout comes after a tough year for the Alaska Permanent Fund, which lost $6.6 billion, or 18 percent of its value in fiscal 2009, according to its annual financial report. <>Each Alaskan adult and child will receive a $1,305 dividend from the state’s oil-wealth trust fund, but the annual payment will be less than half last year’s record windfall.
The reduced payout comes after a tough year for the Alaska Permanent Fund, which lost $6.6 billion, or 18 percent of its value in fiscal 2009, according to its annual financial report.<<
I’ll trade you Mr. Skunk Underporch for the non-scurvy knave (Yar!) Oh, wait… Talk Like A Pirate Day is over, huh?
Unless he can throw his quills, like they do in the cartoons. No dice, then.
Awww, so cute, until they start eating the raspberry CANES, thereby decreasing, if not ending, raspberry production in your yard for this year and next. Not that I’d know anything about that…
And it was living under our house too. The spouse did get a few photos and 15+ min. of video of it scratching though!
And, no, MonaLisa, they can’t actually throw the quills. They only release them when they come in contact with something else, like the nose of a dog…
I read this on BithPhD blog, thought maybe some mudpuppies might be interested.
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40 days for choice was started, I am pleased to report, by a reader in response to the anti-abortion 40 days for life campaign, which begins next week. If you have web skills and are interested in helping out, they really need someone to help them put together a “sponsor a picketer” page–email la4choice@gmail.com if you’re willing to help (pro bono–this is pretty much two women working their asses off here).
If you’re not a web developer but are pro-choice and interested, read on.
Dear Friends,
On May 31st of this year, abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was shot to death in his church. His murderer has told the AP that he knows there are “many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal.”
Now, on the heels of this tragedy, Operation Rescue is mobilizing for what they boast will be “the largest, most widespread coordinated pro-life outreach ever.” From September 23rd through November 1st, anti-choice activists will descend upon women’s health clinics nationwide for a campaign of harassment and obstruction.
We need to organize quickly to protect the clinics and the staff who work for women’s health care, as well as the patients who need treatment. To that end, we are compiling a national list of actions planned to counter this anti-choice campaign and need your help. Here’s what you can do:
1. If you are on Facebook, join the 40 Days for CHOICE group and invite your friends.
2. Please review the list of targeted clinics. If your local clinic is on the list, call them. Ask how you can help. Remember that they are busy serving women’s health care needs every day, and be ready to organize something independently if they do not have anything planned. Please post any questions to the group, or e-mail us at la4choice@gmail.com for organization help or ideas.
3. Post or email us with information about clinic defense and counter-demonstrations in your area so we can add it to the national list.
4. Show up! If each of us passes this information along to every pro-choice person we know, spends 15 minutes reaching out to our local clinic, especially if it’s on the targeted list, and participates in clinic defense in whatever way we can, it will have a huge impact on this attack on every woman’s right to safe and legal abortion.
In Los Angeles, a counter-protest is being organized – e-mail la4choice@gmail.com for details. Please pass along this email and keep passing it along until November 1, 2009.
One of my addictive tv shows last spring was “Out of the Wilderness” filmed in out-back Alaska. It was a survival-style show, but unlike the others, the group needed to cooperate and depend on each other and it was sweet to watch. Also mesmerizing, as I watched these folks endure the elements in the early fall as they made do with elementary shelter (if they could find it) and had to expect to find/shoot all their own food.
I suffered with them through lean pickings such as rodents, and ocassional berries, and SO happy when they spotted and shot a porcupine(slow animal, easy shot)…which…after the painful preparation happened to be yummy eating. I was really caught up in the adventurers’ progress, and was most distraught when it was discovered by Charter that I’ve not been billed for expanded cable and…they pulled my plug! I’ll have to fool around on the web to see if I can find the ending episodes.
Is it true that if your dog gets spines and you cut off the ends of the quills, they will release from the skin easier?
PS Norris is a total bung hole.
GA Peach- when our dog chomped a ‘pine, the vet removed most of the quills (they were even down his throat). Those that broke off in his skin worked their way out on their own over several weeks. Our dog would wait for K to return everyday to feel for quills sticking out and let him pluck them from his face and gums. So. they will work out, but in due time. I think the quills are stonger at the base (base once emplanted), so that could be right.
Reminds me of a few winters ago. We had snow and could see through the falling flakes a large shape up in one of the apple trees. My son and I braved the snow to see what it was. A white porcupine! Pretty cool. Our porcupine stayed around for a couple of weeks, grabbing the apples of the trees.
Our dogs do NOT learn. Luckily, they didn’t meet that one. But we’ve had to take them two the vets a couple of times.
On a sadder note. After having HCV for 35 years, and taking very good care of myself, the docs have found a liver tumor. They are pretty sure it’s cancer. I’ve been in the hospital for a week. Back home now, which is good, because I really missed the dogs.
If I didn’t have Medicare, you know that healthcare provided and run by the government, I’d really be in trouble. I had Blue Cross Blue Shield before and they refused everything 3 times before they would pay 80% of what they thought the bill should be.
For those of us who are tired and sick, write to your representatives that a Public Option must be included.
Our thoughts are with you NDR. So sorry. AKM
the former governor’s speech in Hong Kong brought to mind an old joke. “A guy asked a lady if she would have sex for a million bucks and she replied “you betcha”. He then asked her if she would have sex for ten bucks, No! she relied indignantly, what do you think I am? He said, we know what you are, we’re just trying to establish a price”.
It seems the world’s oldest profession comes in many guises. The dear lady established her price in Hong Kong……. something under a million bucks.
Oh man, staining the American flag? Protesting womens health clinics after a doctor has been murdered? Hanging a census worker?
This crap has got to stop!
Just watched “The Producers” with my kids. Inspired a good Thought for the Day:
From Mel Brooks’ U.S. News and World Report interview:
“I was never crazy about Hitler…If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win…That’s what they do so well: they seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter, they can’t win. You show how crazy they are.”
norwegian blue, we are trying our best around here! Now lets get the rest of the country to see them for what they are. For example, I think letting Kadahfi speak at the UN was a great idea, let the world see what this guy is made of rather than ban him, letting the focus be on the substance (or lack of in his case) of his speech. Now we can tear down what he said, not that he wasn’t allowed to appear.
Porkie quills are barbed on the “business” end (much like many fishing hooks), which is why it can be so difficult to get them out. Once the barb has sunk into flesh (dog or otherwise), it can be very painful to pull out, as you’re pulling against the hook/barb. However, the barb is also what helps the quills continue to move on through flesh and come out the other side…
And dogs that eat dead porkies and get quills stuck in their intestines that get infected and have to be operated on are really dumb.
Proofread before hitting submit. Gaddafi not Kadahfi, sorry…I have a friend with the last name Kadahfi, poor thing…
@Newfoundland Dogs Rule, I am so sorry to hear that.
Quills have small reverse barbs that hold them in the flesh (like a fish hook barb). You can pull them out but left on their own, they tend to work in deeper and eventually come out the other side. Surprisingly, in my experience, they don’t seem to get too infected. The ones that come on through seem to be pretty clean and free of infection (usually).
okay, in the spirit of humor, have a good laugh on Scarah. They ripped her a good one on Oberman.
http://sarahpalintruthsquad.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/palins-hong-kong-speech-plays-the-blame-game-video/
I can believe Chuck Norris said that outrageous comment. He’s for Huckabee.
I’m planning to boycott all Norris’ entertainment products.
I’m thinking someone needs to write a book called “THE TEABAGGERS’ WAY: Media and Violence in the 21st century.”
While you are at it, boycott Ted Nugent and Jon Voight. They are right up there spouting stupid with Norris…
{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{newfoundland dogs rule}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} i am so very sorry to hear you are in the hospital and feeling poorly. i agree that going home and being with your dogs is important. i hope some of the mudpups who are in the healthcare field will visit today and see your post. they will have the expertise to maybe encourage you and help you beat that tumor….much love and sweet thoughts comes your way…bubs
Thank you AKM. That is SUCH a cute rodent!!
And, it isn’t just porcupines that ruin raspberry bushes; just ask my wicked mutt!
@Boodog, good advice. I will boycott them, too!
chuckie norris and his ilk have already stained OUR flag. i really wish this sorry has-been would just go take a hike. he was never an attractive person, now he positively ugly; body and soul.
adorable little creature! Great photo!
Newfoundland Dogs Rule – My thoughts are with you. You’re mighty awesome…thinking about the need for health insurance reform to benefit others even while you’re facing such a difficult personal challenge.
My best encouraging thoughts to you, Newfoundland dogs rule. Hug those dogs tight, I think they are a very healing element in our lives.
Better watch out if you have a strawberry patch! Porci’s absolutely destroyed my beds, and my neighbor’s strawberries this year. They nibbled all the leaves off leaving just poor, bare stems. We tried porcupine relocation; chase into a large garbage can, place plywood over top and take 2 miles away to the end of the road at the airstrip. I bet it didn’t take them long to waddle right back. So, a few got bonked; and we are making porcupine barrier’s.
As for the dogs; you got two types, the ones that learn after being poked, and the ones that then have a vendetta against them. Thank goodness my two dogs have learned respect! The last time one got poked it was by absolute mistake, he literally ran into the porcupine, not seeing it until it was too late. Ouch!
It seems to be a good year for porcupines. I’ve seen tons this year; and a really big guy yesterday when I was out berry picking.
You know, some European countries that are democracies have laws against hate speak, and I have several people I’d like to have indicted here for such. Today’s person would be Michelle Bachman, for the murder of the census worker.
Free speech, yes, is in the Constitution, but as everything else, there are ALWAYS exceptions (yelling FIRE, yadda, yadda). I think inciting idiots to violence should be (is?) included in the exceptions.
I suppose some people who have “talked” with hitmen about how it would be so nice if their spouse was no longer in the picture will try and claim they never meant it and they never really thought the hitman would do it, and since THEY didn’t do the killing, they are innocent…….yep, that was just talking, just conspiring, and guess what? GUILTY. Like felony murder. Your honor, I went in the 7-11 with my bud and I never ever knew he had a gun and I had no idea that he was fixin to hold up the place much less kill the clerk and alls I did was hold open the door for him and drive the car and……guess what? GUILTY.
BIll O–guilty of driving an idiot to kill Dr. Tiller.
Bachman–guilty (if it turns out he was killed because he was a census worker) of inciting a fellow idiot to paranoia and violence
Palin/Bill O/Glenn Beck/Hannity/Limbaugh–if ever a hair on our President’s head is so much as touched…..GUILTY for their outright and repeated false witness against the Pres.
I, too, send love and hugs to NDR. I’ll be thinking good thoughts for you.
I thought about this when I helped during the campaign, there was no way I was going door to door in rural Missouri by myself.
Later a friend asked if I’d be interested in doing census work, I considered it but told her no way if I had to be out there by myself. I’d done census work in Colorado but it was in a town. The hills are packed with people in MO, with lots of woods and no visibility. I also thought about the risks as I rode along with a friend on her postal route, I was considering being her substitute. That’s when I really got a clue about how many places are hidden away in the hills. There is a lot of meth cooking here too.
No way, too much weird stuff happens around her, everyday in the local news there are creepy horrible things reported.
It’s a terrible shame this good man was murdered by some horrible person or people. Awful.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CENSUS_WORKER_HANGED_KYOL-?SITE=KYHOP&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
“The 51-year-old Sparkman was found this month hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery with the word “fed” scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment.
“Even though he was with the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as ‘the government.’ I just was afraid that he might meet the wrong character along the way up there,” said Acciardo, who directs an after-school program at an elementary school where Sparkman was a frequent substitute teacher.”
Ok, if that post doesn’t get through, here’s another one: (What was it I said?)
Free speech is highly overrated; one should not have the freedom to perpetuate an atmosphere of hostility such that the less balanced (thanks Nancy Pelosi for the term) among us feel justified in lashing out violently against the innocent.
A census worker is murdered? What will be next, violence against postal employees? all federal employees? Do people not realize that the “feds” are US? They are not a separate group of people, they are American citizens, your neighbors, your relatives, your friends!
People need to get a grip, and it certainly doesn’t help when some leaders of our government are out there making the unbalanced people even more paranoid.
Oh, I forgot to mention how much they love their guns and bibles here, also too.
Gryphen has Rachel M. video on the hanging, I haven’t watched it yet, just wanted to let ya know.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CENSUS_WORKER_HANGED_KYOL-?SITE=KYHOP&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
#29 Newfoundland
Thinking of you & hoping for the best.
Great post on Crooks and Liars concerning Her Majesty’s Hong Kong speech.
Opening line: “Turning to Sarah Palin to explain the international economy and the role of government is like asking a dog why it likes to lick its rear end.”
Sorry, I don’t know how to link.
Just ran across this diary on Kos about the Permament Fund being half of last year’s value. Wonders if this is why she split.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/24/783846/-Could-this-be-why-Sarah-Palin-REALLY-quit-her-day-job
Regarding the lynched census worker. I recall michelle bachmann, idiot in contention with princess winky as the biggest lunatic, going on and on about, acorn and the census. I don’t want to jump the gun until all the facts are in but this is getting out of hand. If this crime was committed by a far right wingnut, crazy politicians like bachmann & palin and the rabid pundits especially beck & hannity hold a great deal of responsibilty here. They are whipping these people up, there are people 10 times crazier than your typical faux viewers lurking out there. It’s like Frank Scheaffer said, what they’re doing is laying a loaded gun on the table in front of a deranged maniac. If it comes out that the guilty is/are wackos, the above mentioned have blood on thier hands.
Bystander, here is the link.
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/hong-kong-palin-vs-katie-couric-palin
I’m off to read it now….the first line sounds wonderful!
Gryphen also has an excellent Rachel taking on Scarah’s latest speech with expert Noble prize winner Paul Krugman, lol, who obviously is no fan or respecter of Scarah. Goodness, what will her cult say.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2009/09/last-nights-rachel-maddow-show.html#comments
Newfoundland Dogs Rule….Sister, you have my heartfelt support and understanding. I too have (had, I hope) the hepatitis C virus, aquiring it 30+ years ago and finding out about it through emerging symptoms of cirrohsis and liver failure. I chose chemotherapy that eliminated the virus but changed my life forever. I still am, like you, at risk of hepatic cancer. All the best to you as you continue your struggle.
Your doggies will help – I know; I had a beautiful Landseer (Maggie) who was my best companion for 10 years. She would drape herself across my knees in lieu of climbing on my lap. Wonderful, wonderful. Her preferred place, at any given time, was at my side.
Hep C is a sleeping giant for individuals and for the world. The medical costs can be staggering. There are literally millions of Americans who have the virus and the disease but do not know it yet. The disease completely disables many who contract it, the treatments have mixed results and take months of expensive chemotherapy and testing even when they don’t work.
Blessings. I will hold you in the light.
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My first thought whenever I see one of these critters is “Man, that’s a BIG cat” =-)
(((((((((Newfoundland Dogs Rule)))))))))
BTW, has anyone noticed Scarah is still not wearing her wedding ring? She wears other jewelry. Has she never worn a ring? I mean I understand if they don’t, both the hubby and I don’t. Just curious.
On a MUCH lighter note: Check out $P at the airport after her “Asian foreign policy/presidential campaign stop/moneymaking trip.” She looks a little tired, but who wouldn’t be?
She and Todd flew across the Pacific, went to an upscale hotel in Hong Kong (PRC), rested up, threw on a rumpled jacket, delivered a prepared-for-her speech with a few folksy embellishments, answered three presubmitted questions, and returned to the hotel for a nap. I imagine she ordered room service (chop suey/egg roll??) so she didn’t have to leave the room and brush up against any of those real Chinese people or (god forbid) learn anything about the country she was so fortunate to be paid $300K to visit.
Then she flew home! Here is a picture of her-and-him at the airport. I think she’s looking for stories about herself in the paper. Notice what she has in her hand: looks just like a CO2/nitrous oxide cartridge. Ahem…..if I remember correctly, those can be used to make whipped cream, power model cars and rockets, or inhaled for a high. I’ve probably got it wrong……but she does look in need of a little lift.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0bVv4u3gTbaJB?q=Sarah+Palin
All I Saw–YIKES! You certainly wouldn’t want to pet one!
Say No–she prob. hasn’t found in at the bottom of Lake Lucille yet!
Mother Who Thinks–looks like a chunky pen to me, but boy does she look like she needs another nap (and a trip to the hair stylist?).
And on to the accessories: She still is clutching the cartridge, but in this photo you can catch a glimpse of her red plastic cork wedge sandals! SIGH. I’ve missed them.
She is “wearing” a bag I recognize as a craft item made and sold by Alaska Natives. They and only they can make things out of seal and sea otter fur to sell. So that hanging-squarish-furry thing must have been a gift or a purchase. Hmmm.
forgot the link:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0eQXg7B9i7gKB
Somehow, I stumbled across this article:
http://alaskareport.com/news39/x71311_fannie_bates.htm
Once you get past the popups, it’s well worth the read.
Frankly, I don’t know how anyone could put up with what they’re reporting. If this is not a spoof or sarcasm, but “for real,” I don’t know how they’ve avoided all out riots.
crazy.
#29 (((NDR)))
My DH has HCV and you have my every empathy and prayer.
This is not an easily managed disease, and we have our ups and downs. This is one of those things where the cure is much worse than the disease and there are no “one size fits all” answers. We are not treating with meds preferring to go the holistic route with good fresh foods, yoga and meditation, lots of travel when possible and as much laughter as we can muster. His viral load is rising, but very, very slowly. Some years, it hasn’t risen at all.
I’m very happy you are at home with your furbabies.
Namaste.
Mother who Thinks
Thanks for the pictures of Quitty. Okay that’s it, I’m 100% sure she’s on meds. I always love the interaction between Quitty & Toad. I’m sure they have not actually spoken to each other in years. Hate to harp on this, but I know all of those RNC clothes were not returned & any one of those outfits would have been more appropriate. Main Street …wasn’t that Obama’s election theme…so pedestrian to return to last year’s election theme. Come on media…get after her.
new post on the Corrupt Bastards Club updates…
Good news:
“Murkowski’s EPA amendment dead, for now”
From Erika Bolstad in Washington D.C. – “The Senate declined to take up Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s effort to limit for a year the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, factories and other stationary sources of pollution.
Murkowski had sought to amend the Interior Department appropriations bill being considered Thursday by the U.S. Senate, but was blocked from bringing forward her proposal.”
Well, that does it. She has a sealskin bag? I’ll never forgive her!
Actually, the natives should be the only ones allowed to have sealskin. It is a part of their heritage, and probably killed humanely with all animal parts used. To wear it around the world as a fashion statement by a non native irks me. I have been fighting the slaughter of beautiful baby seals for years. It is the way they are killed and the body left to rot that I denounce. $P’s parading around with her ‘cool Eskimo bag’ is only promoting that. Add that to the way she has treated the native Alaskans, how dare she. It is official..she is scum..
more photos at bree palin’s blog. First one is gross, says enlarge it & there appears to be something in sarah’s nose…. another picture proof that she sleeps with her bumpit in.
boodog–actually, Alaska Natives have the right to make and sell items with the skins/parts of animals that have been harvested for food purposes. Being able to sell items made from the non-edible parts helps them earn money and “participate” in the capitalistic society in which they now live. They’re not out there clubbing baby seals like the “industry” in Canada.
the interplay of color and texture in the pic is fantastic!
Lori in LA–Thank goodness!
#72 Lori in LA
THANK YOU for that update. Whew. Big sigh of relief!
Did the speech really address the interests of Main Street USA? That would have been a good topic to stick with. It would fit with what she knows about (a little better). A report on the plight of small business owners would have given the attendees some good information.
The parts of the speech I read seem to be generalizations and some kind of philosophical stuff. I don’t think investors are that interested in philosophy. They want to know where their money is going.
As usual a disappointment in so many ways.
There is an actress who has done a series of commercials for an insurance company called Progressive. Ironically she seems to be imitating SP and probably has the only other bumpit in the world.
InJuneau, I realize that and hope I am not misunderstood. It isn’t the industry of the Alaska natives that I blame at all. I Know the respect they have for the animals- unlike the baby seal hunts put on by other countries. My argument is in the method of killing and leaving the carcass unused. I also understand selling the products they make from them. I just think (besides having another thing about $P to complain about!) that she should be responsible about her celebrity influence and starting a new fashion craze. I have a few sealskin items (art), and I am being petty I know, but I fear it might start a new rush for baby sealskin, wrapped around the neck some socialite. Selling it as Native art and clothing products, yes. The latest L.A. fashion must, no.
That first photo on Bree Palin’s blog is a stunner. Palin, again, looks drugged.
She has these weird glazed over eyes and has a strange expression. I’ve only seen that expression in these recent Hong Kong photos. I’ve never seen it on her before. It’s a wierd, half-smile, half-deer in head lights look.
Where am I? What am I doing in China? Where are my little white pills?
To me, she actually looks older and worn out. I think her time away was at Sunnyside Acres (if ya’ know what I mean) not getting surgery.
Some photos show her from behind at the airport. Geez, spare us… that’s some rats nest of a hairdo. Eeekkkkk! Doesn’t she own a hair brush?
The crooks and liars article is awesome and points out how Palin has flip flopped on many issues. Keep passing that piece on….it’s great.
Media Matters reports the WSJ devoted nearly twice as much space to SP’s speech in Hong Kong than to the President’s speech before the UN. My post of yesterday likening Rupert to “Citizen Kane” promoting his girlfriend in his newspapers is even more appropriate.
The WSJ, once the world’leading financial paper has become a tabloid fish wrapper under the ownership of Rupert the Evil. What a shame.
Mondale also said he really like hearing a president who make sense compared to some recent presidents, lol. And he says President Obama has to press harder to make congress move on important issues. Sounds like good advice to me, I think we’ve done enough p*ssyfooting around, lets get things done.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27520.html
“I don’t like saying it,” Mondale continued. “Having lived through those years, when civil rights was such a bitter issue, and when we argued those things for years … I know that some of that must still be around.”
“I don’t want to pick a person, say, he’s a racist, but I do think the way they’re piling on Obama, the harshness, you kind of feel it,” he said. “I think I see an edge in them that’s a little bit different and a little harsher than I’ve seen in other times.”
What was the rush to get in and out of Hong Kong so fast? Since she has never been there, and she doesn’t have a job to rush home to these days, why didn’t she stay and see the country? I find that really odd.
Once again, it shows her lack on intellectual interest in the world.
She flew in, gave her speech, flew out and showed ZERO interest in the people, the culture, the region,etc. What’s a small minded bimbo.
Maybe they could only check her out of new “home” for a few days and need to get her back to making macaroni art.
This photos says it all. I realize she may be tired, but there is something else going on with those eyes and her numb expression.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0gtl2Bs6HV9GP
trisha, the news showed interviews with the people on the streets of Hong Kong and no one knew her picture. Why would she stay? The numb expression is from the too tight face lift?
Compare the picture of her here-
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0gtl2Bs6HV9GP
and the one at the Gov. picnic here-
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0bVv4u3gTbaJB?q=Sarah+Palin
I swear she’s aged 10 yrs in the last month, and I don’t think it’s from jet lag, remember all the traveling she did during the campaign and she didn’t look like that, ratty hair, wrinkled jacket. Somethings up with her- drugs, stress, kids, marriage ETC.????? SARAH-HOPE IT’S ALL WORTH IT???
That’s so true. Her only interest is in herself and to hear her adoring fans yell her name.
The photo of her at the airport looking at the paper that has a photo of her in the top left right hand corner speaks volumes. I’m sure she is looking up the article to see what they said about her. I’m sure she thought she killed. She is such a narcacist.
Gryphen found a good one from somebody who was at Scarah’s speech, lol……
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-mangling-everything-in-its-path-typhoon-sarah-blows-in-to-asia-1792305.html
“She spoke too fast. She gabbled her words. Scatty was the word for it. We slalomed between the fall of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of Yugoslavia and 9/11. Then it started. The war on “vicious terrorism”, the war against “violent fanatics who wished to end our way of life”, our battle against “radical Islamic extremists” with “twisted vision”. This was not a clash of civilisations but “a war within Islam”. We slalomed again. Asia – “what an amazing place!” – was at its best “when it was not dominated by a single power”.
Here is something interesting that I read.
Narcissism looks like this…
Your partner treats you and perhaps your children differently in private than in public.
In public they may ignore you and give all of their attention to others, or pretend to be the perfect husband, father, wife or mother, while in private they are sarcastic, haughty and insulting and put people (even friends) down behind their back.
They will also have a very inflated sense of entitlement and ego, thinking that they deserve things that they haven’t worked for or earned and may lie and manipulate people for attention, acting a bit too good to be true. Indeed they can be very charming and this will fool people and so few will believe you if you disclose how they talk to you in private.
They will show little or no regard for your well-being or feelings and may act as if they are superior and more popular than you and show favouritism with the kids (if you have them), while often being cold, arrogant, withdrawn and unavailable.
You KNOW my ex, trisha? ha ha…
Some good videos showing the dangerous rhetoric we’re hearing from the tea bagger sheep.
http://godsownparty.com/blog/2009/09/palin-bachman-drink-the-same-kool-aid-laced-wfear-paranoia-ignorance-in-the-name-of-who/
NDR, I am sending warm, healing thoughts your way. Your dogs will need you for a long time to come, so chin up!
Bachman says she’s a fool for Christ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rUBomKvY0
Say No–well she’s certainly a fool for something…!
#29 Newfoundland Dogs Rule
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Hang in there, Pup. We’re sending you hugs from all over the world.
@trisha #85
I made exactly the same point on the forums today. Why fly all the way to Hong Kong and leave the day after the speech? I would have wanted to have spent a week there exploring the city and experiencing the different culture. She had no curiosity at all.
On another note, those pics of her at the airport….she looks awful! Very waxy looking skin and dull eyes. And I think there is something odd about her mouth as well in the photos and video. Even the pics of her giving the speech, if you zoom in, her eyes are terribly bloodshot. Maybe that is from jetlag.
But she really could have blown her nose before she headed off to the airport.
Is Katherine Harris still in congress? If so she needs to be watched too, not that I’m into bashing women, but I know dangerous crazy when I see and hear it. I came across her when watching crazy Bachman videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oC5HG1Qr_U
Link is for an animated cartoon re: the health care debate; the cartoonist is from Newsday (long Island/NYC paper) and is a Pulitzer Prize winner. I think Walt Handelsman frames it all quite well, to the tune of Super-cali-fragilistic-expe-ali-docious (phonetics at work here), which we all know so well.
Enjoy…
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/walt-handelsman-1.812005/animation-healthcare-debate-1.1449655
98 Say No to Palin in Politics Says: September 24th, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Is Katherine Harris still in congress?
Nope, Florida dumped her after only one term I think. It was the seat that there were massive fraud charges with, and the Rethuggers forced their guy into the House, in spite of either a) ballot totals for precincts being higher than the eligible voters or b) complete precincts being ignored in the totals. There’s been so many funny elections, I can’t keep up with the reasons
The weiner (yes, weiner) was Vern Buchanan I think. Last I heard ws he was under some type of state tax fraud investigation.
Flooded GA update: the interstates have all reopened, but many local streets, some heavy volume ones to boot, are still under DOT/federal inspection and are still closed.
Entire subdivisions may be condemned due to the flooding, which happened in non-flood designated zones. No new deaths (up to 10 in GA I think now).
Did something malfunction to cause the flooding in non-flood zones? Like pumps or levees or clogged sewers?
SP has posted on Facebook a greeting to the Jewish population. She bashes an anti-Semitic speech that was given yesterday at the UN. She does not mention who gave that speech. I cannot find any references to an anti-Semitic speech yesterday.
Anyone have an idea on what she is “talking” about?
Worth a read, Fairbanks doesn’t like her…lot of tongue in cheek stuff.
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2009/09/so-sorry-sarah-palin.html
102 nswfm CA Says: September 24th, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Did something malfunction to cause the flooding in non-flood zones? Like pumps or levees or clogged sewers?
Nope. 20+” of rain over a week did it, with flooding resulting in areas that had never had floods before. Rain covered the entire northern part of the state, west side to east side. Check out this CNN story from a few days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8Dwptcj8Q
Sandra in Oregon @103 – Not sure, but this may be what she is referring to:
http://thinkprogress.org/
Bolton: Obama should have condemned Palestinian rocket attacks — but he did.
Bolton has been anti-Obama from the get-go, and his statement is also a lie that he promoted on Fox. When one reads the text of Obama’s speech at the UN, he DID condemn the rocket attacks…….but we can’t expect anything but lies, distortions, omissions, etc. from the Republicans and Fox.
OMG, she is spewing on facebook again. This time about Jewish holidays.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=139552073434&ref=mf
sandra in oregon–most likely the one given by Iranian “President” Ahmadinejad. Or perhaps the one by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. I think they were both yesterday and both prob. had anti-Israel moments.
Palin definitely DID NOT write this…….’nuff said?
Injuneau: I suspect that she deliberately didn’t give the reference so that some people will think that President Obama was the anti-Semitic speaker. Many people would not know that there were other speakers.
#88 Trisha, she blew town instantly because as we all know she has no intellectual curiosity. Regarding the newspaper she’s reading, I read somewhere else what the paper was & it had the article she’s chomping at
the bit to read, it wasn’t a rave review by any stretch. She better not be insinuating on her slam book page that the president was anti-Semitic.
That’s what all the wackos are saying & it’s just not true. She remains an ignorant twit.
Moose Pucky loves porcupines. They are cordial and have a lot of wisdom. Great photo, AKM.
# 105 PepperzMom (GA) Says:
September 24th, 2009 at 2:30 PM
102 nswfm CA Says: September 24th, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Did something malfunction to cause the flooding in non-flood zones? Like pumps or levees or clogged sewers?
Nope. 20+” of rain over a week did it, with flooding resulting in areas that had never had floods before. Rain covered the entire northern part of the state, west side to east side. Check out this CNN story from a few days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8Dwptcj8Q
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PepperzMom, drought to flood after the fires will probably happen here this winter. I feel for you–we are lucky to get 15″ in a YEAR.
Newfoundland dogs rule. Hang in there and best to ya. Made my call to my Alaska Senator in support of the “public option” today.
Porcupines…Dateline April 2007, walking with 4 dogs on Long Lake trail in Palmer. 2 Dogs find porcupine, one, a now passed on Lab mix found it first and is filled with quills. 3-legged St. Bernard/Mastiff mix gets into the fray and eviscerates porcupine. Porcupine is dead but St. Bernard and Lab Mix are FILLED with quills and we are two miles from the car. This all happened at the bottom of a very steep hill, which I rolled and fell down trying to get to the dogs.
The other two dogs I tied to trees at the top of the hill. They seemed to have no interest in the porcupine anyway, but just to be safe I tied them before I “fell and rolled” down the hill to the other two dogs.
Once I grabbed the wounded two I headed back up the hill, untied the two that were not involved and proceeded to run the fastest two miles that I had run since high school cross country! One had quills in the nose which were acting as little straws that were pumping blood out in streams. The 3-legged guy had tons of quills in his only front foot, but kept up on our run to the car and to our subsequent $1200 vet bill for quill removal!
(I called the vet once in phone range and proceeded to show up filthy and covered in blood only 20 minutes after the incident)
There is one that lives in our back woods and I’ve only seen him or her a few times, but still, it’s there sharing our land and I just hope that our current crop of dogs heard the stories from our “old guard” and never ever get close enough to come to harm
Anyway, thought I’d share…my brother also had a porcupine experience where his dog “hugged” on to his chest and had quills that went into his lungs and deflated them. My brother’s vet bill was $11,000 after many weeks of intensive care for his pup, but pup survived and lived to be 14.5 years.
sandra in oregon–good point!
wow to the porcupine story and falling down the hill. that is true dog owner love there.
okay this video is proof positive palin is never gonna make it beyond a lull in the conversation…… found it at palingates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Yexjyf4Qs&feature=related
stay with the video to watch the gum smacker at the end.
Oh, PETMOM!
I would have been crying the entire time!! Can’t stand to see a wounded animal that can’t drive to the vet.
You did great in the rescue and I assume everyone was fine after a nice bath and medical attention.
BAD doggies! BAD!
(Or maybe just not too bright in attacking the poor little porcupine! I’m sure it was a learning experience for all.)
Floods in GA: Prayers are sent for speedy recovery!
That facebook thing from SP reads like a cut/pasted wikipedia entry or something!
And the comments are disgusting! She is a “ray of light” and has “such class”.
Oh BROTHER!
@ Sandra, it was Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, he was alotted 15 minutes and went on about as long as $P did in Hong Kong, a good portion of the people there walked out on him, kinda like $P in HK, geez maybe she’s just jealous that his hate filled diatribe got more attention than hers did.
If you guys don’t visit Driftglass regularly, you should.
But he has a particularly relevant post up about Caribou Barbie that will give newcomers a good introduction.
Driftglass is really not to be missed.
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http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2009/09/its-ok-when-republicans-do-it.html
Hope I’m not reposting – great find from Gryphen @ Immoral Minority
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-mangling-everything-in-its-path-typhoon-sarah-blows-in-to-asia-1792305.html
What a handsome fellow.
Today I saw two lizards on my way to the parking lot. Not together. Opposite corners of the building. I told the second he had a buddy at the other end but he didn’t seem to be paying much attention.
Had a nice meet and greet with Seagull Junker Palin, InJuneau and spouse this afternoon/evening. Seagull was our final “summer” visitor. Sadly, Seagull and spouse did not opt in for a tour; guess they did not want their ears yakked off!
If any of you are planning a summer cruise/vacation to Southeast Alaska next summer, let InJuneau and I know and we will gladly give you a local tour! I enjoy seeing fellow mudpups and sharing our town and state!
Anyway, waving madly at Seagull Junker Palin and spouse! Hope you enjoyed your cruise and meeting outher mudpups!
In her Facebook post her ghostwriter explains what the Jewish holidays are and what they mean.This is obviously to make her hawkish evangelical pro-war supporters think she is npro-Israel,not to actually say something to the Jewish American population. Jewish people already know what our holidays are and what they mean,so if it was directed at us she would not have included her obviously pandering comments.
NDR Prayers go out to you and yes dogs help with healing the same as cats and other animals do.Hope all goes well with you.
I think something needs to be done with how medicare pays the doctor,hospital bills.I just started medicare in January and went for the medicare physical on 4/22/2009 Some parts were not paid until August and I just got a form showing that my pneumonia shot was paid today Sept 24th. Now I know insurance companies may take a long time also but you don’t get the same info with dates and such that you get with medicare.There has to be some way to process these claims faster.I go to a clinic so I guess they pay the doctors but what about a private practice doctor.I had to give up my private practice doctor because my insurance would not cover me fully if I went to him so I changed to the clinic and have been their for about 17 years and am so glad My physician’s medicare approved.It takes 5 months to pay 57.00 dollars!!!!
I just have to post this in its entirety.I just love the UK
Robert Fisk: Mangling everything in its path, Typhoon Sarah blows in to Asia
Our writer is there to witness the carnage as Alaska’s former mom-in-chief touches down in Hong Kong
Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Grotesque, unprecedented, bizarre, unbelievable. Sarah Palin was all of that in Hong Kong yesterday. And more. Dressed in a cutesy virgin-white blouse and black skirt with the infamous bee-hive hairdo, she was a blessing to every predicting spectator.
“There’ll be one or two self-deprecating remarks, a reference to healthcare, taxation, out-of-control spending and a poorly told joke,” my investor companion muttered when the lady walked on to the stage of the Hyatt conference room. All he forgot was the bit about Islamic terror. Alas, she did not fail us. “No recording, no photography, no video tapes, no mobile phones,” they kept shouting over the public address system. And you could see why.
It was Sarah’s trip to Asia and her first appearance since her resignation as Alaska’s top Mum. In her state capital, she told us, you could see a moose in the middle of the city. It was not a common sight in Hong Kong. Why, in Alaska, where 20,000 square miles of the state was glacial and with only two humans per square mile, “it seems to me that God just chucked this bucketful of resources there”. It was then we realised that whoever wrote the Palin sermon for her, they had – mercilessly – allowed some of the real Sarah to show through. Even husband Todd got a mention. He had flown with her into Hong Kong. And – here was a reference to the Alaska fish and caviar consumed in this “beautiful”, “magnificent” and “libertarian” part of China – “some of the fruits of our labour, mine and Todd’s, ended up on tables here”. The caviar at the Hyatt, it should be added, comes from Iran.
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More from Robert Fisk
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-mangling-everything-in-its-path-typhoon-sarah-blows-in-to-asia-1792305.html
For those of you who were fans of Tim Russert and his many stories about his Dad –
Big Russ died a few hours ago, passing away peacefully with family by his side. I’m sure our town will give him a beautiful tribute. Big Russ was a regular at the VFW post at my corner and I will be sure to go there sometime this weekend. 70 cent drafts and stories about the Russerts and “Buffalo in the old days” ….. priceless.
I love imagining that father and son reunion.
me too, BG…my thoughts to his son and the family.
Bear woman and InJuneau, you two! The official Alaska Welcome Wagon!
mlaiuppa…..just wanted you to know I appreciate your posts, keep them coming.
The FB comment shows that SP believes she is actually campaigning against Pres. Obama. He delivered a nice message on Rosh Hoshanna and SP attempted to do the same. Lame
111 jc in co
LOL, slam book! Haven’t thought about those in 30 years!!
newfy…my oldest stepson contracted HCV at age 4 when he underwent surgery for a congenital heart defect that was supposed to have “fixed itself”.
He’s 47 now and last year got the liver cancer diagnosis on top of the usual alcoholic liver diseases even though he never drank alcohol in his life.
My prayers and thoughts go to you.
jc and norwegian blue…
slam books! YOW!!!! I haven’t thought of those since the 1960s!
Buffy!!
I didn’t hear that about Big Russ…thanks for letting us know.
Way cool!
They are Poohs of very little brain but they have survived many generations by turning the back on trouble ignoring it.