Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/11/09 at 09:49 PM
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/10/09 at 07:30 PM
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Amy Siskind of The New Agenda horked up another hair ball at The Daily Beast, essentially arguing that since Obama has utterly betrayed women by directing Bart Stupak to gun down the remaining abortion doctors and then outlaw the procedure altogether via health care reform, we women might as well support Sarah Palin’s lady bits in 2012.

Same. Old. Boring. Shit. But even a turd can be turned into lemonade through the magic of Sesame Street!

To commemorate that program’s 40th anniversary, let’s play the Cookie Monster’s Sorting Song game using this sentence from Siskind’s latest Beast piece:

“Women’s organization such as Emily’s List, NOW, Planned Parenthood and The New Agenda spoke out—each with its own message and solutions—loud and clear.”

You’ve only got 18 second to guess which underlined thing above is not like the others. Are you ready? Click play…and GO:

Did you guess that Emily’s List, NOW and Planned Parenthood are credible, pro-choice organizations with hundreds of thousands of members and long histories of serving as effective advocates for women’s issues? Excellent!

And did you guess that, in sharp contrast, The New Agenda is Amy Siskind’s personal vanity project and was founded in conjunction with nincompoops like this racist tosspot for the sole purpose of extracting revenge on Obama for winning the 2008 primary and to promote anti-choice nitwits like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann? Great! You win a cookie!

Now, if you can guess why any media outlet—even one headed by Tina Brown—would give Siskind the time of day as a “voice for all women,” you’ll have earned a whole damn box of cookies. Because neither the Cookie Monster nor I can figure that one out.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 11/10/09 at 12:55 PM
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Monday, November 09, 2009

They aren’t just hanging around football games waiting to accost the children. fRightwing perverts are lurking outside of schools (via TPM, h/t lahm31):

Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside Sidwell Friends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama [I disagree with TPM’s characterization of the WestBurrow Boobtists. Are they really that much less bug-fucking nuts than the rest of the cretins who dance the Homophobic Hop? That was a rhetorical question. -ed].

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According to their web site, today they plan to hit a few more local schools and the White House, and will be at the Sidwell Friends Lower School tomorrow afternoon.

‘Cos nothing says reaLAMErican(R) Values like shrieking at school kids.

Seriously. If run of the mill TalEvangicals like Ted sHaggard are into snorting meth off male hookers, I don’t like to think of what the WB Boobtists get up to. Maybe large dogs are a bad idea. A bazooka might drive them wild. Also.

Posted by Hunger Tallest Palin on 11/09/09 at 10:44 PM
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Here’s a look at the ragged eastern edge of Tropical Storm Ida. It’s blowing hard enough to lift a puppy’s ears, but not sufficiently to drive us inside…

Posted by Betty Cracker on 11/09/09 at 12:10 PM
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Friday, November 06, 2009

Last week, a large alligator damaged a city-owned car driven by Tampa, FL cop Terry Ashe. Two reports were filed:

THE OFFICIAL REPORT

Officer Ashe was driving home in Pasco County when he observed an alligator blocking the roadway. He attempted to use his vehicle to scare it out of the road. The alligator became agitated and bit his bumper causing approximately $500 worth of damage. Report will be routed to City Claims/Risk Management.

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Posted by Betty Cracker on 11/06/09 at 06:26 AM
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

I always get a little sad when Halloween’s over. Y’know what helps me chase the blues away, though?

Halloween merchandise liquidation sales.

Any troll-ass motherfuckers wanna test me by saying Parker looks great in his “Jango Fett” helmet? Go on, hotshot, do it, I dare you.

Oh, don’t worry, you won’t get banned. Heck, I won’t even let my pit bull bite you!

I’ll just have him kill you in your sleep.

UPDATE: It has come to light that the fourth sentence in this post is easily misinterpreted. What I’m saying is, I would consider it trolling to act like the prequels are real Star Wars movies. Like if you put on your favorite jazz CD and I was all “turn it up, I love Kenny G!”

Maybe I’m supposed to apologize for my lack of clarity, but whatever, I always thought Eric Burdon made too big a deal out of it.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

This morning Biscuit discovered the toilet paper roll (click for a larger version):

And as I’m posting this, she’s batting the stripped cardboard roll all around the living room…

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Posted by Kevin K. on 10/30/09 at 09:04 AM
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Monday, October 26, 2009

Getting a lot of complaints about not posting any additional pics of our kitten Biscuit.  Still adorable, still cute, still tons o’ fun (good cripes, I can’t convey how much joy she gave us tonight with a simple prop like a paper bag*)...

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Posted by Kevin K. on 10/26/09 at 07:57 PM
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Little Bitsy was the winner of week 12 in the Cutest Dog Competition! Woo hoo!  She’s now a semi-finalist and you can vote for her here. [via Balloon Juice]

Posted by Kevin K. on 10/25/09 at 09:48 AM
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Another embarrassing domestic dispute caught on video:

Via J-TWO-O

Posted by Betty Cracker on 10/22/09 at 08:29 AM
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Still not finding any new videos worth throwing your way for our Morning Music series, so here’s some Halloween-themed weirdness for you to fill the gap…

MORE: Let’s Paint, Exercise, & Blend Drinks! was the very first post at Rumproast back when I just intended this to be a 27-visitors-a-day personal blog. Oops. Happy 2 Years One Month One Day Anniversary to Rumproast.

REMINDER: Vote for Little Bitsy! (info here)

Posted by Kevin K. on 10/22/09 at 06:52 AM
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

John Cole’s been a good friend to this blog and he’s been busting his ass to score a win for animal rescue darling Little Bitsy in the Cutest Dog Competition, so please go vote for her here. If her utterly adorable cocked head poses don’t reel you in, maybe James Wolcott’s winning endorsement will.

RELATED: Wow, stiff competition.

Posted by Kevin K. on 10/21/09 at 10:32 AM
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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Not that I actually literally went anywhere, and I’ve been checking in on what’s been going on,  but I have been totally out of energy to write anything or even comment much.  This is due to the fact that I have been struggling not only to recover from a badly broken, or I should actually say, shattered, ankle but, as a CPA, also keep up with the small avalanche of extended tax returns due October 15 that results in a second busy season for those of us professional number crunchers. 

The broken ankle was a direct result of this defective sheltie’s

insistence that one of these

was just one of these.

In my mad scramble down the relatively steep slope in front of our cabin to haul her back, I slipped and fell and bent the ankle under me in a very. bad. way.  Dislocated in addition to broken, as I later found out.  Hey, why do anything half way?

So two surgeries later I have the results for anyone who cares to take a look (squeamish readers alert:  the following picture is graphic but definitely not gory or gross - it’s just an x-ray).

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Posted by marindenver on 10/17/09 at 08:01 PM
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Oh look, AP News has opened a worm hole into the late 1960’s:

A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

Ha, ha. Weren’t people stupid 40 years ago? Thank goodness Loving v. Virginia cleared up all that nonsense.

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Posted by Hunger Tallest Palin on 10/15/09 at 07:03 PM
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