More Super Cuteness

Almost

The Twins are almost walking.

Saturday Baby Blogging

Growing Up

Go here for more. The peace onesies are from Joe, The New Guy, & his lovely, but medication-free, wife.

First Food

Well, the first solid food. Here are the pics, as promised. We also had a very successful audience at the Black Cat, a great coffeehouse without WiFi, owned by a demented, but quite hot woman, who was present today in order to be blessed by The Twins.

Marigny isn't quite sure about this.

Marigny likes this stuff.

This spoon thing is cool, too.

Lucy wants to know why her sister is getting 'nanas & she is stuck with her thumb.

Lucy says, "Thank you, Dad."

Lucy says,"I can hold my own spoon, thank you very much. Oh, & let me savor this new & strange flavor.

OK, what's next?

Well, That Went Pretty Well

The Twins are here here & in honor of being at G & G's house, they were introduced to their first solid food - organic 'nanas, not to be confused with Nana, the other wonderful & talented Grandmother. Pictures later.

Why I'm A Socialist

Lucy

Note the cool shirt: It says "Make Levees Not War".

Marigny

Marigny is apparently the more, um, let's say she's less confrontational.

More of this cuteness at The Twins blog.

Overload

Of baby cuteness. Enter at your own risk.

My Friend Al

Mr. Franken officially enters the senate race to replace that asshat Coleman in MN. & if you don't believe the "my friend" part, go down to the coffee house in northern Wisco that doesn't have WiFi, but does have a demented, but very hot owner, & look at the bulletin/picture board: there is my friend Al standing next to yours truly. I may have to quit my relatively useless job & move down to the cities & live with The Kid, The Son-in-Law & the cute & laughing Twins.

Actually, how can one resist this cuteness?

Marigny

Drooling Lucy

& what kid wouldn't be drooling as they think about a future with their lovely & talented Mom & Dad?

UPDATE: A smiling my friend Al:

Nice Fish Department

World Record brookie. Good for the char. Good for the lake. Good for the angler. & good for National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame. & so sorry to the vanquished fish.

Mrs. coldH2O & I saw this fish in Thunder Bay, Ontario way back in 1972. We were married in January of that year & for a honeymoon toured the beer factories of Milwaukee. It was there that I learned an important life skill: tap beer is best at the brewery. Later in '72 we went on a more official honeymoon with two friends & their son. We went up north of Thunder Bay, & it was a fun trip. We did catch some brookies, but nothing like this one. It was displayed at a small tourist information building. It had been skinned & then plastered to a piece of slab wood. It was cool.

Here is the new record brook trout. By the way, the brook trout is actually a char, that's why I am using both terms char/trout interchangeably.

NOTE: There are a lot of links in this post, click on them all if y'all want to find out some good stuff. Remember, it's fish like this that we must save for our grandchildren, at least my granddaughters. & that's why we fight for peace, & NOLA, & against Bu$hCo.

Update on The Twins.

If she keeps using this face, Marigny will, to quote The Kid, get whatever she wants.



& this is how Sister Lucy handles the same illness. Her kingdom for a thumb.


& she's not going to let it get away again!

It's pics like this that make fighting Bu$hCo worth the pain & aggravation.

More Big News, Thumb Edition

Lucy, of The Minnesota Twins, found her thumb. Mother is reportedly ecstatic. No reports on Father's reaction.

Big News

Marigny rolled over all by herself! Yes, it deserves an exclamation point. You'll want to visit The Twins for pics of unbelievable cuteness. Hint: more hat blogging.

Of Course

Tonight Bu$hCo will announce, once again, that he is going to do something right. &, of course, it will be wrong. Anyone with at least one functioning set of synapses knows that this troop escalation will do nothing to stop this failed war of choice. This is tactics, not strategy. Bu$hCo is only trying desperately to save his crappy Yale legacy. Mike Lupica today:

This isn't some politician talking, one like Cheney, who set world records for draft deferments during Vietnam and now wants to fight the whole world. This isn't some war-loving television or radio yahoo who has never served a day of active duty in his life. This is an American soldier who believed the men who sent him there but no longer believes enough in those same people to let them send him back.
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Finally, he is expected to talk about sending more over there, sending more young Americans to get their asses shot off as a way of covering his own.

You go sportswriters.

& Dan Froomkin also is in the tactics not strategy camp.

As Washington journalists debate whether to call President Bush's plan to send 20,000 more American troops into Iraq a "surge" or an "escalation," they are letting the White House get away with a much more momentous semantic scam.

The White House would have you believe that Bush tonight will be announcing a new strategy. But from all indications, all Bush will be talking about -- yet again -- is changing tactics.
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They don't want American soldiers held hostage to sectarian violence and the Iraqis' inability to form themselves into a peaceful, Western-style democracy. They want the troops to start coming home. Their preferred strategy is to make it clear to the Iraqis that they'll soon be on their own -- and that they have to solve their problems themselves.
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1) It's not just, as The Washington Post points out today, that Bush is breaking with his generals; it's that he seems to me to be channeling Vice President Cheney. Unwilling to change course, Bush has apparently adopted Cheney's overheated arguments that failure would set off a domino effect of geo-political disasters.2) The White House simply cannot answer the seminal question: Why should we think things will be different this time?

He's right, of course. Bu$hCo will keep killing people, both Iraqis & Americans, not to mention other coalition of the coerced. & he will keep doing it because he's a big, fucking baby. Someone who wants to get his way no matter what. This isn't courage or resolve, it's monumental stupidity. My granddaughters, the cutest babies in the history of the world, will be paying for this mistake long after I'm adding ash nutrients to some tag alders on the banks of the White River.

The Kids Are Alright

& very, very, very cute. Go here for more cuteness.

Lucy

Lucy

Lounging Lucy

Friday Cat/The Babies Blogging

Click the pic to enlarge. Then you'll see the real beauteousness of The Twins. Oh, & Tchoupa, as well.

I'm Back

Well, I'm back from the Cities & the first Xmas with The Twins. Here are some pics of the happy time.

The Babies

It's been great that I can go & look at pics like this over at the babies' blog. It's very helpful when I think about Bu$hCo or the woodpile.

Alert: Real Cute Babies Ahead

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Don't Cry For Me Argentina Or Something

clammyc says all the right things about the worthless Bu$hCo twins. Luckily, these Twins make up for it. Via BooMan.

And since I am being chartiable, I won’t even take the cheap shot of saying that they should enlist in the military, even though that would be the only moral thing for these two to do. But damn, they are in their mid-twenties already. A time that thousands of our own troops will either never get to see, or never get to enjoy – all because of the stubborn “oopsies” of President petulant poopie pants. While I don’t expect them to have one shred of decency since the apples don’t fall too far from the tree, there are some very basic questions and telling actions. Have they attended one military funeral? Have they spoken up once about the service that our troops are providing for this country? Do they even know that a “war” is going on at all – started by their own father? Do they even care?