DW’s son asked her last week if we would mind cat-sitting while he was out of town visiting his half-sister. Of course, she agreed. I was not informed in advance, since my opinion stopped being relevant about 10 seconds after I said ‘I do.’ The cat was with us for four days, which was not enough time for her to leave the scent of eau de litterbox #5 wafting through the house. She did, however, suffer a separation anxiety attack the first night and serenaded us with an aria in D-flat minor.
When I first left the farm and struck out on my own years ago, I made the decision not to have pets. This was for a variety of reasons. I drove a route truck and was gone for long hours, sometimes overnight. I also did my share (more) of womanizing and quaffed more than a few flagons of ale back in the day. I just didn’t want to be responsible for another life when I had little control over my own. My second wife, Tyler’s grandma, found a little black kitten when she left work one day and put it in her pocket and brought it home. She named him Smoky. He had a habit of laying in the front room then for no apparent reason, tearing as fast as he could round and round the house. That’s why I nicknamed him Dumbass.
To be sure, we had a lot of critters on the farm. Even in a severe hallucinogenic state, I couldn’t picture granny putting a leash on one of the dogs and walking around with it and picking up the poop. All our house animals went outside to do their business. It would have been a pretty funny sight, though. I got along with all the livestock with a few notable exceptions.
One of my first chores was to feed the chickens and gather eggs. There was one old hen that I tried to avoid when she was in her nesting box. When I reached under her to get the egg she’d puff out the feathers on her neck, back up and start flapping her wings and dare me to reach for it. “Allahu Cluck cluck!” She was a chicken terrorist. She was a poultrygeist. If memory serves, she wound up co-starring with Granny’s dumplings one Sunday for dinner.
We also had a big gray goose who used to chase my younger cousins for no reason. He’d fly up and try to peck them in the face. Hell, I was afraid of him. He was the antichrist with feathers. He actually did do some good, in that blue roaster surrounded by root vegetables. Granny loved dark meat; goose,duck and rabbit.
I could never understand why the breed bull was so antisocial. All he had to do all day was eat, crap, and make cow baby mamas. Maybe it had something to do with the fact when my cousin brought his BB gun over we’d sit behind the slats in the fence and take pot shots at his genitals. Do you know how big a bulls’ balls are? I know it sounds cruel, but we rarely hit them, and life on a farm can be really stressful when you have to work all the time.
THIS LOOKS A LOT LIKE SS’S CAT
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Obama Working Hard To Prevent Greece Going Over The Slide… Just Kidding, Time For Round 236!
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I am dumbfounded, but probably should not be, that Greeks voted down austerity. They really must believe that money grows on trees.
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I am shocked and horrified about that myself. I really don’t have any sympathy for them right now but it will break my heart if there is starvation or anything like that. You just want to go give them your best Mom talk and “the look”.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: City Jobs, Internships Will Go to Illegal Aliens
In the announcement, Emanuel proudly stated that “for the first time” Chicago is “opening up nearly 23,000 City-funded internship, volunteer, and job opportunities for undocumented students, or ‘DREAMers.’”
SCREW THE HOMIES…THEY AUTOMATICALLY VOTE FOR US ANYWAY.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/07/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-city-jobs-internships-will-go-to-illegal-aliens/#ixzz3f83MCvog
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Ted Cruz on Supreme Court: The Justices ‘Put on an Obama Jersey’
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that members of the Supreme Court “put on an Obama jersey” by voting to uphold the Affordable Care Act and strike down restrictions on same sex marriage.
When asked if this would actually polarize the Court further, he pushed back and said, “Look, we are polarized. And they [the justices] have seized political issues. They have become, effectively, politicians. And that’s wrong.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/ted-cruz-justices-put-obama-jersey-n386966
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They Think That They Own African-Americans’: Young Black Woman Responds To Liberals’ Bigotry Against Clarence Thomas
They DO own the darkies,young lady.They abdicated their liberty and self-respect long ago when they traded it for a government handout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ-oDcYsUN4
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“Allahu Cluck cluck!’.she was a chicken terrorist.She was a poultrygeist.If memory serves,she wound up co-starring with Granny’s dumplings one Sunday for dinner.” BWAHAHAHA!!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. 🙂
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The funny part is every word of it is true
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Chicago celebrates 4th of July weekend with 9 dead, 47 wounded
Chicago was yet again riddled with a flurry of shootings this Fourth of July weekend, with at least 47 wounded and nine killed, according to multiple media reports.
The numbers were down from last year’s holiday weekend after police increased their presence by nearly a third — 2014 saw over 80 shootings with 16 fatalities. Police also seized over 80 illegal guns over the holiday, averaging around one per hour, DNA Info reported.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/06/chicago-celebrates-4th-of-july-weekend-with-9-dead-47-wounded/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
7-Year-Old Boy Amari Brown Among 7 Killed in Chicago Shootings over 4th of July Weekend
THE TARGET WAS HIS GANGBANGER DADDY
Another weekend fatality was 7-year-old Amari Brown, who was pronounced dead Sunday morning “at 1:56 am.”
Brown was “standing in the 1100 block of North Harding” with a 26-year-old woman when shots rang out just before midnight. “The woman was also shot in the chest and taken to Stroger [Hospital], where her condition stabilized.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/05/7-year-old-boy-amari-brown-among-7-killed-in-chicago-shootings-over-4th-of-july-weekend/
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Clinton campaign ropes off reporters at New Hampshire parade
Campaign aides for Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Saturday roped off reporters from the candidate as she walked and talked with potential voters during a July Fourth parade in New Hampshire, sparking frustration from the press corps and outrage from the state Republican Party
GET BACK…GET THE F*CK BACK!DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/05/clinton-campaign-ropes-off-reporters-at-new-hampshire-parade/
CNN Panel: ‘It’s Humiliating’ For Reporters To Have to Abide By Hillary Clinton’s Rules of Journalism
Viral photos shows Hillary Clinton staffers with a moving rope line herding reporters trying to get a shot of Clinton as she walked through a 4th of July parade
THE MDIA WHOORES PRETEND TO HAVE THEIR KNICKERS IN A TWIST.IT’S ALL A SHOW.IT MEANS NOTHING.
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After long drought, Hillary to broaden media access, grant more interviews
The former president and first lady, as well as campaign chairman John Podesta and others, are said to recognize that keeping the press at arm’s length has damaged her campaign. They concede that her long periods of silence in the face of swirling questions about her private email, speaking fees and Clinton Foundation favor-seeking have hurt her on the crucial issue of public trust.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/05/after-long-drought-hillary-to-broaden-media-access-grant-more-interviews/
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THIS ASSCLOWN WAS ACTUALLY A CONGRESSMAN
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I wonder if he still has the tweet up. I would be so mortified.
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Video captures teens laughing at blood-drenched man lying unconscious on Cincinnati sidewalk during Fourth of July melee that left two cops hurt
“TEENS”=WELL,YOU KNOW
The unnamed man was beaten up at Government Square in Cincinnati Saturday night
Bloodied victim suffered serious injuries but was later released from hospital
Two Cincinnati cops responding to unruly behavior suffered facial injuries
Violence broke out at Fountain Square in a crowd of 3,000 after a baseball game and a hip hop concert let out Saturday night
Police officers were forced to don riot gear to clear the square
THE YOUTUBE HAS BEEN SCRUBBED.
I WILL NOT BOTHER POSTING ANY PICTURES OF A WHITE MAN BEATEN NEARLY TO DEATH “JUST FOR FUN.”
WHEN WILL THE DAY COME WHEN WE STOP ALLOWING OURSELVES TO BE VICTIMS AND START EXTERMINATING THESE VERMIN?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3151086/Video-captures-teens-laughing-blood-drenched-man-lying-unconscious-Cincinnati-sidewalk-Fourth-July-melee-left-two-cops-hurt.html#ixzz3f8f9SJMB
Police Attacked by Mob in Cincinnati, Rescue White Man from Black Beatdown
I THINK THE DAY WILL COME WHEN THE NIGGAZ FEEL EMPOWERED TO ENGAGE IN A GUN BATTLE WITH POLICE.LISTEN TO THEM SCREAM THEN.
Fireworks, rocks, bottles and punches were thrown at Cincinnati police by a mob of people gathered for a Fourth of July hip hop and electronica concert late Saturday night. Several officers were wounded including one who needed stitches after a thrown glass bottle struck him in the face. Another officer was punched and received a split lip.
WHAT SHINING EXAMPLES OF AMERICAN MANHOOD
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/07/shock-report-police-attacked-by-mob-in-cincinnati-rescue-white-man-from-black-beatdown/#ixzz3f8gCKh3C
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Michael Steele on Trump: ‘People Are Sophisticated Enough To Know When You’re Just Full of BS’ (VIDEO)
YES,MICHAEL,THEY ARE.SOPHISTICATED ENOUGH TO KNOW YOU WERE THE RNC’S FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO SUCK UP TO BLACK FOLK.YOU’RE A WEAK-KNEED,MILK-LIVERED SHAM.
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Chris Matthews: Hillary Clinton is ‘More of a Conservative…Traditional Politician’
This wasn’t the first time Matthews offered this formulation. On Meet the Press in late May, Matthews insisted: “If Hillary Clinton is a lefty, I didn’t know it, okay. She’s not a lefty. She is a centrist politician.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/connor-williams/2015/07/02/chris-matthews-hillary-clinton-more-conservativetraditional#sthash.cTIQYm3T.dpuf
Chris Matthews Pictured Marching for Hillary In July 4 Parade in Washington D.C.
KEEP IN MIND THE REPUBLICANS LET THIS SNOW-CAPPED TURD MODERATE ONE OF THEIR PRIMARY DEBATES
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Look at the expression on that holding the sign. Are all of those Dem women so sour and humorless? I think most of the ones I know are, but surely there must be a jolly, good-natured, open and welcoming liberal out there somewhere.
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Poll: Clinton with growing lead against any Republican
THE HARD PART IS FOR THEM NOT TO GRIN WHILE THEY READ THIS
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One thing for sure, if (and probably “when”) Trump drops out, his voters are not going to Bush.
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I don’t have pets anymore, either. I am on the go too much and really nobody can just open their back door and let their dogs out in the backyard any more. We used to hear dogs barking all the time (one of them was ours) but now you only see them on a leash with their owners carrying a plastic bag. Who has time for that? I’m allergic to cats. The goldfish bowl was a pain to keep clean. The gerbils got loose. I’m done. But my sister has 7 rescue dogs, so someone in the family is doing their part.
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Meanwhile, I still have a house full of grandcats. Sigh…
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