I just looked over and her limbs were sticking out again… never fails to make me laugh.

Bree is a chameleon. It has to be her coat. Polar bears have hollow hair that reflects the sun but I don’t know of any dogs that do as well. If so, she is certainly one.

In images she either looks red or yellow. That’s because the camera is picking up the dominant color. I’m constantly trying to adjust it in photoshop to what she really looks like, but it’s a challenge.

It’s gotten to the point that I will now watch her to see what color she’ll turn next. I know you think my eyes are going, but I just had them checked; trust me, it’s her.

I’ve never had a dog like Bree before, on many levels. Her chameleon qualities are just one thing that makes her so special… and drives me crazy.

Nancy Pelosi has re-written the rules of the House to exclude all Republican influence.

The changes reversed the ‘fairness rules’ that were written around Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America. She has done this to ensure that the Republican minority has absolutely no influence on legislation whatsoever.

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats unveiled Congressional rules Monday that would end term limits on committee chairmen and make it impossible for GOP lawmakers to offer alternative legislation.

In changing how the House operates, Democrats sent a message that they will use the huge Congressional majority they won in November to overpower Republicans any time they wish. GOP leaders complained to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., that they were being marginalized, but there is little they can do.

The changes are set for approval Tuesday after the 111th Congress takes office.

While Pelosi doesn’t support fairness in the House, she does support the ridiculous Fairness Doctrine, which would effectively wipe all conservative talk from the airwaves. No fan of free speech, our Ms. Pelosi.
This is very telling - democrats hold the majority yet Nancy felt she had to do this for total control. Guess she’s a plunge the knife in AND twist it kinda gal.

Of course Republican leaders sent a letter to Pelosi stating their opposition to her strong arm move:

“President Obama has pledged to lead a government that is open and transparent. This (rules package) does not represent change; it is reverting back to the undemocratic one-party rule and backroom deals that the American people rejected more than a decade ago,”

Welcome to the United States of Obamaland. This is what you voted for, America. A unilateral government, a dictatorship with an inexperienced puppet at the helm.

Are you happy without checks and balances? Are you happy with a one party system? Does anyone remember what happens under one party governments?

We’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz…

Like you want to hear about this again, right? Consider the image on the left your YsD warning; stop reading now if it bores you!

I heard from her today; she called as soon as she rolled out of bed at 12:30p. Does that sound snotty? Guess it was.

It reminded me of the low simmer I’ve been on since speaking with her right before Christmas… I don’t know how many remember that her belongings were stored in a friend’s garage and for a time she thought they were gone? I flipped out, blaming her for not asking for help and myself for not going to get the stuff.
But then a miracle occurred and everything was all right; the friend was back, had her stuff and it was supposed to be fine until she was ready for it…

Fast forward to December 23rd, when I wired her some Christmas money. I couldn’t actually mail anything because the psychotics she lives with apparently have a history of grabbing other people’s property.

Anyway, when I spoke with her that day, she confirmed that her friend Dana of the garage storage had moved up north. Everything she owned really was gone.
It hit me like it had the first day, hard in the chest. I know why bad news causes heart attacks; the shock literally stops your heart. Well, that’s what it feels like, anyway.

Brand new furniture, computer, books, DVDs, clothing, important papers… been here with me before, haven’t you? Yes, I’m mourning someone else’s things. Certainly an odd reaction, but I can’t shake the feeling of loss.

I put the problem to Tonie [OD] who told me -and rightly so- ‘You’re just going to have to let it go’… which sounds reasonable, right?

I can’t, though, and I’m extraordinarily angry with YsD about it… not that I would let her know, of course.

And I asked Tonie why she thought YsD never ever asked for any help of any kind from us, even when she was on the verge of losing everything… another fine example: when she was moving back over to Ft. Myers she wasted money by renting a big truck when she could have just asked our help. Wouldn’t have cost her a thing, but we had no idea she was even renting the truck until she pulled up in the driveway.
What a fucking immature thing to do. ‘Look at me; I’m a big girl now’. Try to help her load the truck… oh, hell no. She’s got it! She can take care of herself.

Tonie opined that the kid wants to feel like she’s doing it on her own. Maybe, but when she lives off the state, eats off the state and travels via city bus… asking for a little bit of help from us, who have never turned her down, is somehow taboo?

So I can’t quite wrap my mind around the stuff being gone, if that makes any sense. I struggle with it on a daily basis… and I have no idea why. Maybe I need to see a shrink.

Yes. I am truly angry. I am angrier with her than I have been in the last 20 years. In those 20 years I’ve seen her do some really outrageous and even loathsome things… and this is what finally makes me blow?

I’m going back outside to hack at the hedge while I have a good head of steam up.
Why waste mad?

Al Franken lost the Senate race between himself and Norm Coleman by 215 votes. After pushing for recount after recount, he is now allegedly leading by 225 votes.

Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor.

Mr. Franken started the recount 215 votes behind Senator Coleman, but he now claims a 225-vote lead and suddenly the man who was insisting on “counting every vote” wants to shut the process down. He’s getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies.

Counting ballots twice gave Al a nice lead.

Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.

This disenfranchises Minnesotans whose vote counted only once.

I deserve good things. I am entitled to my share of happiness. I am an attractive person. I am fun to be with. I deserve to steal a Senate seat.

Metrosexual pussy.

Sea ice levels are at 1979 levels, further making the Goreskin’s lamentable 5 year prophecy of North Pole doom laughable. The sea points its icy fingers and laughs.

Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago.

Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.

Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.

The data is being reported by the University of Illinois’s Arctic Climate Research Center, and is derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions.

Add that to the cooling of the oceans since 2003 and you get… a class action lawsuit against the Goracle for mass hysteria? People have been calling for just such a response to his bullshit for at least a year now. Add fraud because he’s making tons of money on his manufactured mishigas!

Count me in!