"Abandon all hope, ye who enter..." -Welcome sign above the City of Dis. "Kaos is my son."- Ravager

One of the residents who saw our flier caught Mr. Jack at 2 am while he was coming home from paintball. We paid him 50 bucks for his trouble, and he tried to sell us a 10 year old queen sized mattress. We declined and just asked for our cat. Mr. Jack is now in the bathroom, scheduled to detox (bath) and happily singing to his food.

Miss Fey hissed at her brother and went back to sleep.

I've been on hiatus from Mindsay for a while. Planktongrl and I are busy.

I only post, because my cat of 5 years, escaped last Sunday and we've been looking for him ever since. Planktongrl is distraught and blames herself. We've canvassed the neighborhood, put out fliers, and are starting a 1 hour dish clanking ritual in case Jack is in earshot. Need to check the shelters today. Life is on hold until we find out what happened to Mr. Jack.

UPDATE: Neighbor about 3.5 blocks away thinks she saw Mr. Jack yesterday.
UPDATE 2: Neighbor about 2 blocks away believes they saw him this morning. The two women looked at the flier and said "is he really big?" I nodded. "We saw him!" Their chihuahuas scared Mr. Jack into the next yard.

So far, I've distributed 250 fliers. I'm out of toner. My car battery is dead. Driving the wife's. Back is killing me from all this hoofing it.

UPDATE 3: Someone crank called Planktongrl today using a Mr. Rogers voice emulator claiming he had Mr. Jack. It was a "private" number, and when the person gave a phone number, it did not include an area code. When we checked, the number in our area does not exist. Asshat.

You can watch the excessive force here.

Sickening.

Of course, the police say its the man's fault for resisting arrest and "falling out of his wheelchair." Testilying anyone?

A university of Iowa professor of anthropology and women's studies apologized for an email response she sent to the college republicans. Her response to the "coming out conservative" email about campus events? FUCK YOU!

I concur. Fuck them assholes.

It takes a special kind of douchebag to appropriate LGBT language like "coming out" and also hating on LGBT at the same time.

So yeah. No need to apologize Professor.

Fuck You Republicans.

Just plug in the numbers for Social Security, Medicare and Income tax from your last year, and it will break down where your taxes actually went.

No matter what you paid.... National Defense is always going to be first... because it has the lion's share of the budget.

So, Eric Cantor, Republican Douchebag Leader, tweeted about 416,000 jobs created since January.

TPM rightly saw this as taking credit for these 416,000 jobs.

Now, in 100 days, what bill has the House crafted, the Senate approved and the President signed... that is responsible for these 416,000 jobs created in the US economy?

"None" is the correct answer.

Aside from believing in Voodoo Economics (also known as Trickle Down, where the rich are supposed to piss on the poor so we should give tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the poor), apparently, Republicans believe that something magical happens when Republicans are in control of Washington. Apparently, the claim inherent in Cantor's tweet is... simply "being in power" is better for the economy, than say, some other seat warmer.

In an exchange with Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Jack Kingston (R-GA) said that "We saw it back in December, when YOUR president supported extending those tax cuts."

Apparently, President Obama is not president for Jack Kingston.

So... I watched the live speech online.

Disappointing.

Instead of going back to reality, the President continued this nonsense that denies how the economy works (ie, he's continuing the spending cuts narrative). The spending cuts to domestic programs in the compromise are the basis of the new budget.

Talk about stupid in terms of bargaining. The President is taking the compromise on this year's budget as the basis of his new position for domestic spending.

The only good things I heard was that everything for spending cuts was on the table (including defense). I heard a vague promise about protecting Medicare by using a scalpel to make cuts (instead of just ejecting Medicare Advantage [aka, Medicare Corporate Welfare]) instead of a machete. I also heard him talk about shared sacrifice on the tax code and reforming corporate taxes (by lowering them).

Talk about suck.

This is a Democrat in the White House? I think the Party should eject him and let him run as an Independent. He's no fucking Democrat I recognize.