I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

IllinoisLady

Blue....I love it.  I was holding my sides laughing.  I think Ted Cruz ought to get an autographed copy.  .

Jackie

Bren-2007

Thanks Blue ... I'll let you know what the vet says when I get home tomorrow.  Tim will be home in the morning for a little bit, so he can keep Tank company while I'm gone.

hugs,

Bren

IllinoisLady

bluedahlia

Bren-2007

Hi Gals,

Just got back from the vet's office.  Geez ... good thing I love this vet as it takes forever to be seen.  Maggie had an xray and we ruled out cancer. Thanks goodness for that as he had mentioned cancer before the xray.  He is doing a full blood workup as his other thought was possibly Addison's disease.  I had to look that up on the net.  She does have all those symptoms.  He said he'd call this afternoon with the results of the blood work.  She also got a shot to help with the colitis pain. She has to take 3 pills a day ... one for vomiting, one for diarrhea and one for gas/colitis pain.  He also said she could eat white rice, yogurt, cottage cheese and chicken soup.  So I went to the store and got all kinds of things she might like to eat.  The vet was concerned because she's very thin and has lost 4 lbs since November.  I'm going to need a lot of those pill pocket things!  Maggie and Tank love them!

It was a very stressful week on a few different fronts.  Glad we can start a new one today!

hugs,

Bren

IllinoisLady

Bren, so glad you know what Maggie's dilemma is not.  Now just hoping for great responses to the treatments the Vet recommended.  It sounds like he has her mainly on the white diet.  Short for easily digested foods so the stomach does not have to work hard.  Here's to Maggie getting back to her former 'larger' self with lots of love from her humans. 

Cooler and overcast part of the time today.....hmmmm, good.  I'm tired of the heat and humidity together. 

Jackie

bluedahlia

Semi good news Bren!

Did anyone see this coming?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/28/1317272/-...

IllinoisLady

I doubt it Blue, but they chose to go where men should fear to tread and get politics and religious issues intertwined.  Train load of s*** is well on the way.

Jackie

EDITED to correct severely miss-spelled word.  I wasn't even sure what I said the word was so wracked up.

Bren-2007

Hi Buddies,

Just heard from the vet.  Mags' blood work came back normal, so no sign of Addison's disease. Yay!  Just hoping the "white" diet and all those pills fix her up.  My stomach has been in knots worrying about her for the past week.  Think I'll go on the same diet she's on!  The vet also told me he's treating her for "colitis" and if she doesn't improve in a couple of weeks, I'll need to bring her back in.

hugs,

Bren

Here's Mags after her bath last month. 
Jackie ... I tried your trick to get the picture smaller and it wouldn't work this time.  arghhh.

 

bluedahlia

She's a beauty!

IllinoisLady

Bren...you may have to move your cursor around a bit......see if there is any spot where it ( the cursor ) changes.  That would be the place where you would start to re-size your picture.  I have had the same problem a time or two and was surprised that I could not find any spot along the bottom, but had to move up...nearly an inch one time for it to take hold. Have no idea why but then I don't really know why any of it happens.  I am so electronically challenged. 

Jackie

bluedahlia

IllinoisLady

Trying a graphic here:

I had to make this one bigger. 

Blue

QuinnCat

Bren - that is good news about Maggie.  A change of diet can work wonders.  Quinn was vomiting 2-3 times a week, since I got him home, actually, and one Vet didn't think much of it, but I took him to my other Vet and he said "that should not be happening."  He suspects Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome based on X-ray.  Have him on Venison, B12 shots and some antiobiotic and he has stopped with his vomiting.  Just little tweaks here and there when it comes to the digestive system.  So glad it is not cancer for Maggie!!!  I hope he gets better soon.

bluedahlia

It could also be pancreatitis.

bluedahlia

IllinoisLady

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/26/1316848/-What-not-to-say-to-black-people-when-you-are-Rand-Paul  This character has such a case of foot and mouth disease.....every time he opens his mouth, out comes his foot.  Well, at least it has been a while since he plagiarized.

Jackie

bluedahlia

That would have been sweet!  News Flash....it's the war on idjuts!

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/07/28/...

bluedahlia

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

S. Palin.  JMHO but she deserves to be insulted.  She does manage to keep herself front and center often but  for someone without much intelligence it is way too much.  She and the fabulous Bat Shit Bachmann.  You can count on Faux Farce News to keep pumping them up and using them and never letting them believe how 'cheap' they really are.  

Jackie

bluedahlia

I don't like the "C" word, but I have to admit, the way the actress said it was hilarious.  I am a long time fan of True Blood and that word is mild compared to some of the other things.  They are vampires, fairies, werewolves, etc., etc., after all, and it IS an HBO series.  In context it was very funny.  Palin was smart to say no, they would have ripped her to shreds!   The coward!

IllinoisLady

Personifies the word hypocrite like no one else can.  .

Jackie

bluedahlia

Here's a lesson in logic.  If it takes one to know one, then you admit she is one.  hahahahha!

RetiredLibby

RetiredLibby

RetiredLibby

RetiredLibby

So, the regressives are now lying about their constant verbal tic of "impeach Obama" because they Democrats have started pointing it out and using it in fundraising.  The regressives keep forgetting, however, that there are such things as video and print archives and progressives excel at using FACTS (something that the regressives have never quite grasped):

Rightwing Watch

GOP's Base Clamors To Impeach Obama

Submitted by Drew Courtney on Tuesday, 7/29/2014 3:25 pm       

Nearly two years into President Obama’s second term, a do-nothing Republican Congress is focusing on its next project: the 2014 midterm elections. But that effort might be complicated by increasing pressure from the party’s base to turn Congress’ energy to impeaching President Obama. The impeachment call, which has existed on the right-wing fringe since the start of Obama’s presidency, has picked up steam in recent weeks as it has been endorsed by right-wing media figures, activists and elected officials.

This has put Republican congressional leaders in a tricky spot as they attempt to placate their base without alienating moderate voters. When House Majority Whip Steve Scalise appeared on Fox News Sunday this week, he continually dodged the question. Ted Cruz similarly batted away a question about impeachment, calling it politically unfeasible. Right-wing leaders including Pat Buchanan and Tom DeLay have urged caution in the impeachment campaign, although DeLay said he would personally “love to impeach him.” Likewise, Karl Rove has warned that when it comes to impeachment, “the politics of it are all wrong.”

Even Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas, who last year distributed to every office on Capitol Hill a book on why the president should be impeached and removed from office and hired an attorney to look into impeachment, is now backtracking and warning that impeachment proceedings could benefit Democrats in the midterm elections.

Now, House Speaker John Boehner is claiming that talk of impeachment is a Democratic “scam” to win voters…an odd claim since it’s members of his own party who have been beating the drum about impeachment.

But it might be too late for Republicans to backtrack on a steady buildup of rhetoric questioning the president’s legitimacy, love of country, and authority to govern, which has led to increasing calls for impeachment from right-wing lawmakers, activists and media personalities... although nobody can quite agree on what the impeachment should be for.

• In a radio interview last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann said that she believed the president has "committed impeachable offenses” but that first “the American people have to agree with and be behind and call for the president’s impeachment.”

• This month, Rep. Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania said that there are “probably” the votes in the House to impeach the president for “absolutely ignoring the Constitution, and ignoring the laws, and ignoring the checks and balances.”

• In March, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California hinted at impeachment proceedings in response to illegal immigration.

• Last year, Rep. Blake Farenthold of Texas toyed with the idea of impeaching the president over “the whole birth certificate issue.”

• Also last year, Rep. Kerry Bentivolio of Michigan said that impeaching the president would be “a dream come true.”

• Rep. Steve King has promised impeachment proceedings if President Obama issues an executive order granting work permits to undocumented immigrants.

• Sarah Palin has repeatedly called for impeachment in recent weeks.

• Glenn Beck has repeatedly called for the president’s impeachment for the IRS scandal, an imaginary plot to give weapons to Al Qaeda in Syria and for a supposed cover-up of the role of a Saudi national in the Boston Marathon bombings. “You need to file the articles of impeachment. He needs to have the stain on his record that they cannot remove,” he said.

• The prominent right-wing legal group Liberty Counsel launched a campaign in February to call on the House to start the process of impeaching the president before he succeeds in “remaking the United States of America into a godless, socialist nation.” The group launched a similar campaign in 2011. Although Liberty Counsel officials have cited President Obama’s executive order on LGBT nondiscrimination, the Benghazi attack, marriage equality as possible reasons for impeachment, ultimately the group’s chairman Mat Staver said an impeachable offense can be “whatever Congress says it is at any given time.”

• Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano has floated the idea of impeachment for at least a year.

• In 2012, American Family Association President Tim Wildmon called for the president’s impeachment because he “intentionally misled the American people” about the attacks in Benghazi. This year, he declared that the GOP would have impeached President Obama even if he had been a Republican because the “Christian element” in the party would never tolerate “lawlessness and lying.”

• The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer demanded President Obama’s impeachment for his handling of the court case challenging the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act.

• Gun Owners of America director Larry Pratt has called for Obama’s impeachment for his backing of “pagan” gun safety laws and before he takes “total control.”

• WorldNetDaily managing editor David Kupelian wants Republicans to impeach Obama and remove him from office if they take control of the Senate: “We need to remove this guy or to stop what he’s doing as soon as possible. The next opportunity is in November and we’ll see what the Republicans and the Christians and the conservatives can do then.” The site’s editor in chief, Joseph Farah, has also repeatedly called for impeachment proceedings.

• Former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo called for Obama’s impeachment earlier this year, claiming that the president has become “addicted to dictatorial behavior.”

• Tea Party Nation urged its members to sign a petition calling on Congress to “impeach and arrest the tyrant king Obama!”

• Alan Keyes  who lost the 2004 Illinois Senate race to Obama, advocated for impeachment over the Fort Hood shooting, Obama’s “dictatorial intentions,” and something to do with “gay lovers.” He has alsocalled on Michele Bachmann and Jesus Christ to help in the impeachment endeavor “before it’s too late.”

• In 2012, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality’s Peter LaBarbera called for Obama’s impeachment for trying to “pander to his homosexual activist base.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gops-base-clamors-impeach-obama#sthash.kKDCTFXn.dpuf

 

QuinnCat

About your graphic RL - that 97% of the poorest counties are in Red States.  I think that is perfectly acceptable to them because in their minds, it means there is no transfer of wealth going on between the haves and have nots in those states.  Their goal is not to lift all boats and I've come to believe they don't care about the poor.  This is why you could throw up to them every case where Obamacare has helped someone, they basically disagree with the principle of wealth transfer and view Obamacare as just that, as well as any other program designed to help those in need.  They would view that 97% (in private, ofcourse) as acceptable.

IllinoisLady

RL....I like all the graphics -- the middle one in particular.  As far as the impeachment  -- when someone can come up with an ACTUAL REAL reason, they are just head line making lip flappers to me.  About as much credibility as a balloon with a dime-sized hole in it. 

Jackie