With billions of federal stimulus and bailout money engorging lobbyists in Washington, I finally found a photo of one of these fat cats in the aftermath of visiting the public troth.
What is astonishing is that this particular fat cat appears slumped against the wall of Congress — unable to even walk to a waiting limo to return to K St.
Gerald Cassidy? It is you! This is clearly abusive . . . making cats work for lobby. That’s just one scant step away from prostitution and considerably more dishonest.
munk:
“So far the Democratic party has bankrupted this nation with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, etc. all in buying votes and I am sick of it and will no longer vote for Democrats.”
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Good move. Now you can vote for those who would bankrupt the Country using wars of convenience, tax cutting for the rich, and giving free rein to any charlatan with an Armani and a business degree from Wharton. Your logic is impeccable.
Dear Monk. So vote Republican. The deficit under Bush and the Republican Congress went from 4 trillion to 10 trillion due to tax cuts for the super wealthy, after they had inherited a budget surplus from Clinton in 2001. But do not ever let anything like a fact interfere with your reasoning. Good luck.
All you people should know that this pix is not really funny. We dogs and cats have no control over the food supply put out for us, and there is no excuse for the people who overfed my feline friend.
Please, people, deal with us as fellow sentient beings and be responsible.
The conmparison to K St and the Hill is unfair, since those folks have been gifted with intelligence and free choice and have freely elected to abuse their gifts.
Fido:
I had more than a touch of pity for the cat too. Good points all and you are to be commended for your compassion — and your amazing ability with the English language (not to mention your computer skills) surpassing even the most enlightened troll we come across here. I thought all you understood was “sit” and “roll-over.” Homo sapien hubris, indeed.
On the internet no one knows you are a dog.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html
Fido:
Superb.
Talk about a fat cat, the new CEO of GM said on MTP this AM he makes 1.3 million a year and won’t work for a dollar a year as the recently “fired” CEO did.
The new CEO was at a loss for words when asked about letting people go at GM that are not building cars.
The CEO tried to say everybody at GM was in the business of building cars. Oops.
David pointed out the hundred of Union officers paid by GM that do nothing but administer Union work.
Bill Clinton: I would’ve disabled North Korean missile
April 5, 2009 09:40 AM EST
Former President Bill Clinton told Fox News that he would have disabled the long-range missile before North Korea launched it, saying too many people “do not appreciate the scale of the threat that is evolving on the planet.”
“One morning, just like 9/11, there’s going to be a disaster,” Clinton said. “I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.”
Reacting to President Barack Obama’s speech in Prague, Clinton called the plan for a Global Summit on Nuclear Security a “wonderful fantasy idea,” saying Russia and other nations can’t be trusted.
“What are they going to promise, and why would we believe them?” Clinton said. “It’s very dangerous to have a fantasy foreign policy, and it can get you in enormous trouble.”
Send in the dogs to do a thorough cleaning of their shit. Or, send in armed and pregnant Oklahoma women, re: toxoplasmosis.
I want to know who posted this picture of my male cat Stripey and then to inform them that use of this photo without his express permission is a violation of his privacy and possible cause of action. My (his) attorneys will be consulted forth with to begin the process of seeking legal redress. This holds this innocent 11 year old up to a ridicule he doesn’t deserve considering the valuable Gekko/Rodent elimination services he performs for us and his loyalty of waking me up every morning to provide him with sustenance.
That is one fat and sassy cat. It looks a little like Karl Rove to me.
Rafflaw, that is an insult to my feline friend.
Also, there is a common misconception that if it has four legs and chases cats, then it is a dog.
Wrong.
It is Mrs. Katz and her divorce lawyer.
Sorry. No treat for me, now.
rafflaw “That is one fat and sassy cat. It looks a little like Karl Rove to me.”
What an insult. To the cat.
My kitties directed me to type that
Now, really, can you imagine Karl Rove in that position, even if he could get into that position? He’d look a heck of a lot worse than that poor kitty. Karl Rove with a shaved belly. That’s my image of the day. Maybe I’ll go to church today.
Trough. Tough.
Gnome, Perhaps you never read the US Constitution for it specifies that Congress is in charge of appropriations and since Republicans controlled Congress when Clinton was President, I would guess it would be Republicans that should be congragulated for the balanced budget and surplus despite Bill Clinton being dragged kicking & screaming to the balanced budget.
So what about six years, 2001 to 2007, when Republicans controlled BOTH Congress and the Executive? I have read the Constitution. You have read no history.
Besides, your distorted little facts are all wrong. Clinton forged a budget cmpromise in 1993, with a modest tax hike for the super rich and a responsible budget. The right denounced it. NO Republicans voted for it. Jack Kemp predicted a recression. It led to eight years of budget sanity.
Now the Republicans have the utter gall to come along and claim credit.
Go back to your corn.
I have read all you guys bash Limbaugh, here is a challange for you if you are not afraid of intellecual diversity:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-klavan29-2009mar29,0,5456892.story
When I first saw the cat photo, I immediately thought he looked like Sir Winston Churchhill or W.C. Fields. The both wore their bloomers up on their chests….
FFLEO:
Winston Churchill definitely
Watching these European antics of Obama, I am starting to miss GW Bush.
Ditto Clone:
“I have read all you guys bash Limbaugh, here is a challange for you if you are not afraid of intellecual diversity:”
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I actually listened to el Rushbo for several years through the Clinton Administration and found him pompous and rather unlettered. Given his lack of education, he has done very well for himself by pandering to the emotions of the rabble he neither respects nor associates with except maybe to score his illegal prescriptions drugs. Rush is everything bad about the Repubs–not their ideology of course which long ago was exposed as manna for morons, but their willingness to say or do anything to make a buck. For people so worried about class warfare, they possess neither the acumen for warfare nor classiness.
Cornfed wrote the following: “Gnome, Perhaps you never read the US Constitution for it specifies that Congress is in charge of appropriations.”
Dear cornfarmer, please read the part of the Constitution to all of us that “specifies that Congress is in charge of appropriations.”
We are waiting.
It will be a long wait.
Perhaps you are confused with Art I, Sec. 7, cl. 1, which states that “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originated in the House of Representatives.”
That is tax bill, sir farmer. Not appropriations.
Now that you have learned something, please keep reading.
I am sorry that you have strayed onto the site VOTED THE #1 LEGAL THEORY AND LAW PROFESSOR BLOG OF THE TOP 100 LEGAL BLOGS BY THE ABA JOURNAL(c)(TM)(R), but we are very careful about our Constitution here. We do not let you read words into it that are not there.
Hey now, I want to know where the right to marry comes from? Where in the Constitution does it lay, sir?
And oh boy, a Rush Clone, It is apparent by his statements that all is well within his mind. But then again, when the class starts finger painting, will they be able to keep it within the lines?
I am amazed that a Junkie like Rush get an audience as large as he is. But then again, education was not in the Constitution either. But if it is going to be offered it has to be offered equally. Apparently it was cut out of this mans school budget.
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Oh well, you can see how troubling and a social morass inbreeding has become. They have the right to raise then children the way they see fit.
SlipperyOne:
“I am amazed that a Junkie like Rush get an audience as large as he is. But then again, education was not in the Constitution either.”
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Acton again to the rescue:
“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.”
— Letter to Mary Gladstone (24 April 1881)
Corn Farmer,
If you want W back. Come and get him, his personal banker, neighbor whom he shared a Heli-Pad in Preston Hollows just defaulted on a mere 525 million dollar bank loan. I am sorry, he could not make the interest payment. See Tom Hicks, FIN or the Dallas Morning News for more on that story.
I am sure, there are lots of people that wish W was back in power. So they could be made whole again or at least have the promise of personal prosperity.
I have this client that on the advice of his Financial Adviser invested 100 Million in the Stock Market in November of 2007. That turned into a mere 12 Million last September or October 2008.
Investments are out side of my knowledge so they went to another person for a possible curatve measure.
But please come and take this forsaken individual. hey, he even let Cheney down at the end and would not give Scooter Libby a Full Pardon.
That must have been a warm environment. W was the puppet that the master puppeteer lost the ability to make W dance.
mespo,
You, I will miss…!
Appears this blog is infested with more than its share of book smart eggheads that can’t think for their own beyond the end of the nose and have zero real life experience in their lives.
I have a PHD in Psychology and teach at a major University.
As an experiment, I intentionally picked a name I thought would evoke derision, disdain, and scorn from those that could only picture someone identified as a “corn farmer” as less worthy, educated, and wordly as themselves here.
My experiment proved just how utterly contemptable several of you are here. I suggest the several of you find some humility in yourselves and come to the realization that it is very likely many if not most people in America probably have a much greater quality of life, experience, and real life value than any of you that derided the name I chose could ever hope to have.
You really are small pathetic people. I am surprised Mr. Turley even bothers.
Well I have never,
But they say that those who can do.
And those who can’t Teach.
And those who can do both Make All of the Money.
But then again, a teacher is another name for being on Governmental Assistance. Do you really think? Oh I am sorry, Do you have the ability to conceptualize that if it were not for the whig party that you would have the ability to teach at a major university. Please read the 1st 10 amendments to the USA Constitution also known as the Bill of Rights.
Oh, maybe England and France would be learnin our young em. Eh what ya say granny. Yep, edumkations a wastin on them folks.
The point is, If it had not been for the Free Thinkers that formed and framed the basis of this country, corn farmer, you would not have a job. Oh and by the way, I have alot of frineds that farm for a living. I am aware that they have diplomas on the walls from MSU and a few went to TexasA&M. Just because they did not have higher aspirations to go to a better College or couldn’t get in (only kidding). Maybe in the Next Life, they can do a litle better with choices. Like go to Texas is there anyother or Michigan. Yes, see the first choice.
mespo727272
“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.”
I need help with that, are they saying they tried and failed? Or that each individual was more than enough for one room? The one that I will comment on is Jefferson, he was so elitist, that he refused to call the Judiciary in. If you will recall nothing happened between 1801 though 1803 and this menial case came out that was entitled Marbury vs Madison.
SlipperyOne:
I take it to mean that no matter how absurd the error, even some able people will support it. Acton seems to suggest that great men are not nearly so infallible as they would have us believe. See Colin Powell for a contemporary personification of the concept.
But hey, no bad-mouthing Jefferson around me. As anyone whose seen my blog entries knows, Jefferson is my main man.
corn farmer:
“As an experiment, I intentionally picked a name I thought would evoke derision, disdain, and scorn [all three are synonyms--why have all three?]from those that could only picture someone identified as a “corn farmer” as less worthy, educated, and wordly [make that "worldly"] as themselves here ["here" is redundant; where else would they be, Panama?].
My experiment proved just how utterly contemptable [make that "contemptible"] several of you are here. I suggest the several of you find some humility in yourselves and come to the realization that it is very likely many if not most people in America probably have a much greater quality of life, experience, and real life value than any of you that derided the name I chose could ever hope to have [hasty generalization that is impossible to prove since the speaker doesn't know the audience].”
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Nope, I think you’re a corn farmer–and a semiliterate one at that–based on what I see. No offense to corn farmers, but I expect more from Ph.D’s. As for the need for humility, I say, “Doctor, heal thyself.” Finally, as I have a son applying for college, could you give a hint as to your employer? I need to winnow the list.
My “nom de plume” sees that fat cat, and is reminded of this:
http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=catgrinder.jpg
Corn Farmer,
You have a PHD? Did you capitalize the H for emphasis? Or is it a little better than the typical Ph.D.? I only ask because I have to assume given your superior intellect that there is some significance.
Rush Clone,
I listen to Rush’s show almost daily. Hours of it. He’s absolutely infuriating. I listen to him because my job sometimes requires me to drive for many hours at a time, and I have found something he is very good at. He makes me so mad that I couldn’t possibly fall asleep behind the wheel of my vehicle. In this way, I have found some utility in that pontificating blowhard’s vile dialogue.
Dear cornfarmer Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology post hole digger teaching at a major university, here is what you wrote:
“Gnome, Perhaps you never read the US Constitution for it specifies that Congress is in charge of appropriations.”
Now, Doctor, that is an incorrect statement. It is wrong. It is false. It shows ignorance of the text of the Constitution. It contains a defamatory accusation that I may never have read the Constitution while discussing it online.
We have been waiting for you to post the text that you cited. As expected, it has been a long wait, becakuse there is no such provision in the Constittion.
The normal self-serving response of a trained teacher would be to say, sorry, you are technically correct about the language, since the clause does apply to revenue rather than appropriations, but my point about the budget is still valid.
This would show that you may be a scientist who is open to new evidence that may falsify a present hypothesis and require its revision. It might the the response of a trained researcher and teacher.
But no! You simply ignore the fact that your ignorance has been exposed. You evade the question. You switch to another topic and level the accusation that the posters here are small pathetic people.
When your facts are demolished, you resort to ad hominem attacks. Not very mature. Entirely unscientifice and completely inconsistent with academic standards.
Then you describe your so-called experiment. Well, what were the criteria, the protocals for the “experiment.” What were the controls? What was the double blind group? None, I suspect. This is just an after-the-fact invention to cover up your red-faced embarassement.
Sorry, corn farmer. You have been nailed in an ignorant misstatement. Your only response is name calling directed at the other posters.
Some professor. I feel sorry for your students.
You have wandered into the big leagues.
You are not ready for prime time.
Go and read the U.S. Constitution yourself before insulting me again.
GNome:
The only trivial error in your eloquent rejoinder to corn flake was to assume he could, in fact, read the Constitution.
Here’s a little sampling of his writing to “prove” my point:
“Appears this blog is infested with more than its share of book smart eggheads that can’t think for their own beyond the end of the nose and have zero real life experience in their lives.”
Figure out what he means here in 500 words or less (or simply correct the grammar and syntax), and I bet you could have his teaching job!
mespo,
Who was the last person assume the mantle of mental professional and act like a sub-literate troll?
Ol’ Corn-holio there sure seems to be singing the same tune.
to assume
Damn decaf.
“I have a PHD in Psychology and teach at a major University.
As an experiment, I intentionally picked a name I thought would evoke derision, disdain, and scorn from those that could only picture someone identified as a “corn farmer” as less worthy, educated, and wordly as themselves here.”
ConFused,
You are either a total liar, used a paid correspondence course (illegitimate of course), or teach at a place like Regent University. My guess is that you are merely a liar based on your inability to develop logical arguments. However, your lies aside, I would like to address your ridiculous belief that I, or people on this site would feel disdain for a farmer simply based on education. There is not only no evidence of that, but actually tens of thousands of words to the contrary. I respect and cherish people not on their wealth, success, fame, or academic achievement. I look at their heart and their ability to partake in discussion by being open to new ideas, or having the wit to disagree based on their own thoughts.
In your “experiment” you have shown neither the ability to engage in the give and take of discussion, nor the patience to read anything more than a paragraph. I’ve, and others, have done you the courtesy of taking you seriously enough to reply to you in depth. You have shown me and others, the discourtesy of of replies that were essentially a childish “Nyah, Nyah, Nyah,” because the replies demolished your arguments. You are not a worthy opponent not because of your occupation, but because you are incapable of engaging in rational discussion and debate. You also exhibit a limited capacity to think in any rational manner.
Mespo & Slippery One,
Thank you for the Lord Acton dialogue. Other than the well known quote I had little knowledge of him. He seems a wise man who I should find out more about.
Gnome,
It is interesting to demolish someone’s arguments only to find out they they can’t comprehend that their arguments have just been demolished. Well done. Confused, is like the Coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons that has run thirty feet beyond the ledge and has to look down before realizing it.
Buddha,
Great to see that great green face again. While you’ve returned, I’m off to my children and Passover Seders. See you all in about a week.
Please. Mr. corn farmer does not have a doctoral degree in anything and does not teach. The phrase “book smart eggheads” gave him away, not to mention his poor sentence structure and reasoning skills. I don’t believe that he is a farmer either. I don’t know many farmers, but those I do know tend to be pragmatic and straightforward. Mr. c.f. comes across as doctrinaire, unyielding and defensively condescending.