The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    So Happy To Have Found DogBlog!

    By PuppyLove on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 11:43am |

    Hi everybody, I am as excited as a greyhound running after a bus to have found this vital community of interested canine-carers. Dogs are everything to me.  I have seven of them, eight if you count them all. These are the kinds:

    • Black Lab
    • Golden Retriever
    • Yorky
    • Rotweiler
    • Labradoodle
    • Other
    • Other
    • Other

    I do not believe in breeding pitbulls, though.  Every single person I have ever met who has described a pitbull as a reasonable companion if well-trained and cared for has had their face eaten off.  That's like three people I know with no faces at all. I call them the faceless masses.

    But on to dogs, which is why we are all here.

    Who do you all pick to win at Westminster this year?  I'd be my last snausage on a dachsund. It's just that kind of year.  Put a picture of your favorite dog in the comments below.  I love Dogblog, though I don't understand the fixation with Teddy Roosevelt at all. Here is one of my others:

    Long live dogblog!

     

     

    Comments


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 12:13pm

    Sometimes I wonder if PP doesn't stand for Party Pooper.


    by wabby on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 12:46pm

    Piddle Pooper. I dont belong to any Party, as none would have me as a member.


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 2:29pm

    ToS warning for "Pooper"


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 2:50pm

    Don't be such a ToSser.


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:32pm

    Love that doggie 'do!

     

    This is Poppy. You know, on account of the ears. Popping up and all. Technically, she's my granddog, but she lives with me.

     


    by wabby on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 12:43pm

    Ginger

    Please vote for Bernie Sanders!  My daddy promises he'll rub my belly if you do.


    by HSG on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:55pm

    Isn't this a tos violation? A blog by a terrorist sympathizer with numerous photos of terrorists.

     

    Disclaimer: Kaida

    would like to state for the record that OceanKat is actually a dog lover who only pretends to be a Kat on dogblog.


    by ocean-kat on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 2:23pm

    Welcome. I can add a Chesapeake Retriever and a Basset Hound mix--both wandered onto my country property in N. Texas. We love dogs, God's special gift to humans.

    As for Teddy Roosevelt he loved dogs, his favorite being no less than a Chesapeake Retriever named Sailor Boy. This breed might be the only true N.American continent one. They are not aggressive but will stand their ground and in chasing tennis balls they will keep going all day long. Mine will never admit to being tired but will pretend to be playing around catch her breath for another run. She loves to dig for moles and gophers and if not she digs a hole, puts a tennis ball in it and plays what I call "pretend a mole".


    by Oxy Mora on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 2:51pm


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 2:57pm

    Oops, I thought this was dadblog.com. My bad.


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 2:57pm

    TOS warning, it's not April Cute Day.


    by Michael Maiello on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 3:28pm

    Watcha gonna do about it?


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:28pm

    So cute, but she looks worried...you haven't been reading her any of the comments to other streams, I hope.


    by CVille Dem on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 5:27pm

    She's a Bernie babe. I snapped this photo after Clinton won Texas.


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 5:51pm

    Ah youth. I hope you're teaching her already to think long-term, logistically.Bob La Folette took more than a day. Is she a Ring-waif? Most auspicious.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 1:35am

    It's sad that so many parents don't understand their children. The old generation gap and all that. This young feminist is clearly upset her father isn't voting for Hillary. She wonders why her dad is fine with Hillary being a secretary but wants to hold women to those traditional roles. Can't you hear her saying, "Dad! It's not the '50 anymore."


    by ocean-kat on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 4:46pm

    Now it's on.


    by Michael Maiello on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 3:30pm

    THIS IS GREAT!

    I am waiting for a new grand kid any minute.

    What a pretty baby.


    by Richard Day on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:50pm

    OMG she is gorgeous! She looks like her mama doesn't she. laugh


    by tmccarthy0 on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:32pm

    Ha. Her mama wishes. She looks just like my baby pictures. Hopefully, she'll age better!


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:36pm

    Congratulations Mike to you and your entire family!!!


    by tmccarthy0 on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:42pm

    Please send this little package post haste.  I will pay whatever extra postage it requires.

    Thank you very much,  Nana


    by Ramona on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:45pm

    No! She's mine! My precious!


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 5:49pm

    I just off the phone with my son.

    Mama has to go to the hospital.

    The baby is too too big.

    Just like the last one.

    I am worried.

    But....SHE WILL BE PRECIOUS!

    You aint worried no more!


    by Richard Day on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 6:04pm

    Mine is tiny! Full term but only 5 lbs 9 oz at birth. Good luck to your son and daughter-in-law and too-big-grand-kid-to-be!


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 6:42pm

    There is no other place to put this thought.

    Six pounds less, that is just fine.

    Ten or more years ago my son worked for this real estate management corporation; like he does now but in a more inferior position.

    And he would tell me that in his office; his office meaning a desk amongst so many other desks; when he would receive a signed lease he would quote Lord of the Rings whilst holding the new lease to his heart:

    OH MY PRECIOUS

    So a few years later he met his wife who had signed up for a rental.

    And so when his new love produced their first daughter, I always referred to her as Precious.

    hahhahaahahah

    This means nothing but to me it means everything.

    Mike, you have begun an entirely new life.

    You will always love and care for your Precious.

    Even if years from now, she slams the door. hahahahahah

    ​

     

     


    by Richard Day on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 10:41pm

    Thank you, Richard. I had no idea that your Precious was a LotR reference. Very cute. Get some sleep tonight, and may you have wonderful news in the morning.


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 11:57pm

    I do not know where to put this.

    But my third Granddaughter was issued into this chaotic world on April 4, 2016.

    And Mama delivered Baby at 9.5 lbs I am sure. hahahaha

    But she is just fine and two grandmas are there to help out and Daddy has time off from work to help Mama and Baby and two sweet little sisters.

    My son will not permit me to reproduce the photos.

    But one pic has Precious holding Baby and Jolee attempting to communicate. And Baby is staring at 

    Jolee!

    Baby is named: Willow; Willow Grace!

    Damn.

    By the third grade Baby will become Weeping Willow for sure!

    It does not matter. All names are funny in the proper context.

    Hell, I was DICK!

    Life at times aint that bad afterall.

    hahahahahah

    Anyway, congratulations to you and to my son.

     


    by Richard Day on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 1:50pm

    Congratulations, Grandpa!!!!  Don't worry about the name; in 6 months you will wonder how they could pick such a perfect one for her.  Enjoy!!!!!


    by CVille Dem on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 2:00pm

    I went nuts Cville as if I have never taken that tour before, when I first heard her name.

    I told my son on the phone: How amazing!

    What a wonderful name.

    And on that same phone I am saying hello to Precious and Jolee and Mama....

    Oh, Oh, my son trusts me so very much that he always tells me that we are on SPEAKER....

    hahahahahahah

    I do not know why, but it makes me laugh.

    Seany is protecting children.

    Seany is protecting decency.

    Seany is protecting his daughters now.

    hahahahah

    ​Now five years later, my son has become a protector of children and female rights.

    I am dumbfounded.

    I love my son (of course) but I love his new found energy and his new found understanding.

    Seany does not just pretend to love his children, his wife and women all over the world...

    Seany loves life as well as the opportunity to improve our planet.

    Some folks have fathers who are their true heroes.

    My Hero is my son.

    IN WHOM I AM WELL PROUD.

    THE END.

    HAHHAHAHAH

     


    by Richard Day on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 3:19pm

    DDay, you are so right, and you made me remember that having a grandchild (mine is named Carter Belle) has a second benefit.  The first is the wonderful opportunity to see this wonderful child grow and develop, learning to talk, getting a sense of humor; one day seeing a particular expression that is a carbon copy of your own child; and   all the while, we grandparents get to sleep all night(!). Second, though and equally important is the joy of seeing our sons become the kind of men we hoped they would be.  I am so proud of my son and his wife...they make me so happy.


    by CVille Dem on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 3:47pm

    I know,, I am dragging this out. hahahahah

    My son has become; sounds like Nietzsche. hahahahhaha

    ​Yeah. Parents have times or days when they cannot sleep.

    My son has become the man I hoped he would be. 

    Sean became more than I could ever hope that he would be.

    He never gave up on me and took time and money to see me over a decade ago and continued.

    Sean would tell me that he would have a house of his own and children of his own after finding his own true love a decade ago. 

    I just never saw all this coming.

    Oh, and Sean would be 'up here' and we might be walking the old downtown of Virginia and there would be this lovely girl, and he would say:

    Oh she will not be up here much longer.

    hahahahah

    No kidding.

    That was a long time ago and yet Sean found this wonderful girl as a rental client and....

    And this wonderful woman came from up here. hahahahahah Years later.

    And now he has a house of his own, and a wife of his own, and children of his own and...

    Do you believe in magic?

     

     

    I do now!

     


    by Richard Day on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 10:41pm

    Congratulations!!!!


    by Michael Maiello on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 2:11pm

    Congratulations


    by rmrd0000 on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 2:15pm

    AHHHH she has my hair.


    by tmccarthy0 on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:33pm

    Can we get back to what this post is about?

    That baby upthread looks like she needs her own dog.


    by wabby on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 11:18pm

    I thought about this. hahahahah

    I welcome Puppylove to our small blog.

    A great idea actually.

    Welcome PuppyLove.

    But....

    As you already know Flower, we dagblogs sometimes go awry. hahhahaahah

    Anyway, WELCOME PUPPYLOVE.

    That is good enough, aint it Flower?

    hhahahaahahah

    We need new peeps and we need new peeps who do not creep and we need peeps who might sometimes make us weep...

    I was never that good at rap.

    But I always wish to see Flower and once PuppyLove sees Flower...

    We shall increase our readership.

    the end


    by Richard Day on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 11:27pm

    I hate to break it to you, DD, but I don't think PuppyLove is a really new reader. Which is why I didn't worry about hijacking the thread.

    PS It is April 1st, you know, for at least one more minute.

    PPS It wasn't me


    by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 11:59pm

    With that haircut there's only one person it could be. #FeelThePerm

    Seems like a PuppyMaster pulling our (heart) strings. 


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 2:16am

    I am so embarrassed to have to tell you all this but on closer inspection of this blog... you all have a typo in the blog name!


    by PuppyLove on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 7:58am

    Not a typo - "dogblog" domain was taken, but we're fighting for "Puppyrazzi.com" - keep you posted. Originally started out to be a paper, but you know how it is with dogs...


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 10:28am

    Oh that is to be expected.

    I got a headline misspelled:

    Like Aint That Bad!

    hahahaha


    by Richard Day on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 10:25am

    Like, aint that bad?

    He's a comin' down the street

    Now I tell you, confidentially

    He aint sad.  

     

    Like, aint he sweet?

    DD's a comin' down the street

    now I ask you, confidentially,

    aint he bad?

     

    Richard, you aint that bad.

    Peace to you and yours. And to the dogs and babies of the world.

    May we have more friefly dogs here at Dogblat, er.

     


    by Oxy Mora on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 12:00pm

    Firefly dogs or frufru pugs? I'm afraid it'll turn Dogmatic, and then all sorts of hell breaks loose - feelings unleashed and exploding hydrants... the Lady is a Trump kinda thing.  Yeap, braking bad, freaking mad.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 12:22pm