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Kitty needs to have her ears protected from the sun too. It looks like they've already lost the tip of an ear to skin cancer. Also her nose. I keep my cats inside so I don't have to try to put sunscreen on them.

This message brought to you from the skin cancer capital of the world

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The sun hat on the kitten is so adorable.

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A regular Annette Furicello.

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I go regularly with a friend and her dog to a dog beach. I have wondered if any of my cats would like it. I have never tried them on a leash. I guess even if they liked it the dogs (who are generally leashless) would freak them out. I did have one cat who enjoyed nature walks on a leash.

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When we had a big goofy mutt and Shadow, the neighborhood cat bully, they both used to go out on early morning walks with me, after they bumrushed the door. It was a sight, big goofy Cody striding along and and Shadow the grey chonk right next to him, little legs twinkling to keep up. Often sly old Shad would drop under cover of a bush about halfway out and then pop back out on our way home, leading the parade now, tail held high. My boys....sigh.

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I took my cat Pookie to the beach once and it was the first time in his life I ever saw his tail be up.

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Cuteness overload!

Cuteness overload!

Cuteness overload!

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Beach baby!

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Luv the chapeau.

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Nice toque eh?

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https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/c7d30382-1171-43d5-afce-3b1929e45fbf?utm_source=share

“So, do you know where I could get a sun hat?”

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I would need a trip to the ER if I tried to put a sun hat on one of my cats.

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I have never, ever known a cat who would tolerate a hat. One old guy, we would put a little party hat with a rubber band chin strap on him, and at first he would just sort of slump down, like "Man, what I ever do to you?" And then claw it off with his hind paws, and then go and have a good solitary sulk..

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As with everything non-standards to cats, you have to train them to tolerate it from the earliest kittenhood. Pairing the training with treats helps a lot.

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I just got a huge scratch across my chest yesterday because I needed to clip 1 back toe nail. One toe nail!

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You say that like you didn't have it coming

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Aye, but clip ONE toenail…..

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Pretteh kitteh!

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The beach hat makes the whole thing.

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Kitten in a sun hat FTW!

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Ta, Rebecca. Ta, Martini. It's a new day.

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More of the nonsense Matt Rose is known for. For those that know him. Although, there may be maths at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10pR9Mj2Qss

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Why is Aaron Sorkin?

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I don't know what Sorkin was smoking when he suggested replacing Joe with Mittens but he need to quit it stat!

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I spent a lot of years working two jobs when Ms. O couldn't work and was trapped in the horror of SSDI appeals, so I have never seen a lot of things because I was always working. Never saw West Wing. I somehow get all the references and jokes, but never seen the show.

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It's worth the watch for many reasons, but Sorkin's ridiculousness occasionally causes eyerolling even from the most devoted fans.

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But Mittens is a proven winner!

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The Eighth Circuit is full of fascists. Also too, jurists considered not qualified by the ABA. They have sucked for a VERY long time.

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jesus and still not as bad as 11 or (shudder) 5.

the fuck america?

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It's takes some doing, but they've managed to do it.

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Interesting how they've never met an example of govt overreach they can't embrace for criminal defendants, and no example of govt benefiting the masses that they can support.

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Listening to Andrea Mitchell short-circuit her way through thickets of rank speculation makes me nuts.

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I find her extremely annoying.

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That piece about the cybertruck says "Elon Musk is a penis". For clarification, does that make him a synecdouche?

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Anyone surprised? Doubt it.

https://x.com/emptywheel/status/1815394783310835758

Kimberly Cheatle confirms that the Secret Service had provided the security resources that Trump had asked for. (There are reports that BEFORE THAT, Trump had made asks he didn't get.)

https://c-span.org/video/?537081-1/secret-service-director-testifies-attempted-assassination-donald-trump&live

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Oh for the love of god--why are they live-carrying Gym Jordan's Dollar Tree Roland Friesler schtick?

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How could anyone drive something that angular, down Lombard St. LOL

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I was just gobsmacked when I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild. I'd seen the reviews, the videos, the memes, but nothing prepares you for the unrestrained dickishness that doesn't translate through a screen.

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I have a friend who saw one and didn't know what it was. She thought someone had put it together themselves out of sheet metal. She didn't believe me when I told her it was one of Elno's trucks.

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Republicans will look at that bit of history from the Depression, and lick their lips. We can deport citizens too?? Write that down - and add it to the Agenda.

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So after the officer gets whatever slap on the wrist for killing this woman, he'll just go and find another PD and apply for a job.

Maybe not, but I have no optimism in these situations.

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The officer was black.

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I didn't realize I had typed "white" until I read your response. I don't even remember typing it. Sometimes my fingers and my mind don't go at the same speed. At any rate, I have corrected it, and thank you for pointing it out. I apologize for my mistake.

There are LEOs who act without thinking or caring, of all colors, etc.. I think it's in the training.

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like

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i seem to recall that the cop who killed tamir rice recently lost his third police job.

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I wonder if Joe Biden has considered simply signing checks from the Treasury to pay off all the student loans the Calvinball courts insist he doesn't have the authority to do. Signing a check from the Treasury is certainly an official act of the President and the Supreme Court has gone all Nixon on the legality of anything a President does.

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i think he should take SCOTUS at its word

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Excellent Marcotte and Beutler articles. 5 stars for each on cogent facts and mature analysis.

But this from the Marcotte article should not be missed:

"Citing a 2020 study by psychology researchers that found a correlation between Google searches for "erectile dysfunction, penis size, penis enlargement, hair loss, hair plugs, testosterone, and Viagra" and voting Republican, Meyerson writes that precarious manhood turns some men into "putty for a demagogue who blames your plight on MAGA’s usual suspects."

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Just a fancy way of clapping back Greta Thunberg's "small dick energy." Interesting info, but I really prefer the pithier version, myself. 😀

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From the Piece by $5 Feminist 'splaining Rudy and his woes: "He spent much of 2019 traipsing around Eastern Europe in the company of a kook from One America News named Chanel Rion, soliciting dirt on Joe Biden from a host of dodgy characters and Russian agents, while claiming to be pursued by octogenarian philanthropist George Soros."

By Crom! We do have a problem here! Overlooked by us caught up in the "Biden bows out" drama is the fact that our Overlord For Life, George Soros, is also at death's door!

Will George Soros also step aside? Which international billionaire globalists will step in to sign our paychecks?

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His son's only in his 60's. He's got plenty of check-writing years ahead of him.

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****whew*****

I was starting to worry. Thanks!

;>)

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Someone should really point out that the heros of the white supremacists, back in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, didn't wear masks.

They are cowards, liars, and misanthropes, although they do hate women more than anything - even the women among them.

They need to be confronted, laughed at, and immediately punished for any law breaking - not get sympathy and help from LE.

Bravo for this hero - and good for the person who took the picture of the mother and child - scaring little girls is what they do best and that should be publicized all over.

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