February 28, 2019

At the Manhole Rat Café...



... what does it take to get out of here?

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107 comments:

Achilles said...

Was this Ann's attempt at a Cohen rat?

Meade said...

Creepy sparkles.

alanc709 said...

That is one ugly rat. Bet Rashida Tlaib think's it's racist.

D 2 said...

What does it take to get out of here?
Hmmmm
(If we ever got out of here. If we ever got out of here.....)
(Flourish)
Well the rain exploded with a mighty crash, as we fell into the sun.
And the first one said to the second one there: I hope you're having fun.
Blog on the Run.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Haiku Rat

-pit bull Rat
Gnashing of teeth
-tail as leash.

Lucid-Ideas said...

That's no rat that's a manbearpig baby!!! Ok ok ok sorry but you must admit it is rather manbearpigish...

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Bchimney-sweep Rat in blackface
accidental, or intentional? Doesnt matter.
No public office for this one unless Dem

rehajm said...
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rehajm said...

From WSJ: Tax reform arrived in 2018, removing the roadblock of the highest corporate tax rate in the world and inviting companies to repatriate profits held abroad. Investment picked up almost exactly as chief White House economist Kevin Hassett predicted it would. He predicted growth for the year would rise by 3.1% in 2018 on a fourth-quarter to fourth-quarter basis, and growth came in exactly at 3.1%.

Mr. Hassett made these predictions in the heat of the 2017 tax reform debate and was ridiculed by progressive economists. One quote that doesn’t age well came from Larry Summers, the former Barack Obama adviser, who wrote in the Washington Post that tax reform would make no difference unless “you believe in tooth fairies and ludicrous supply-side economics.”

When Mr. Hassett pushed back to defend the tax proposal, Mr. Summers said, “I am proudly guilty of asserting that it is some combination of dishonest, incompetent and absurd.”


Yah, lefties get most stuff wrong like that...

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Coypu, Nutria
--a thing to flout

rehajm said...

Koala Rat.

narciso said...

In other news:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/neomi-rao-clears-judiciary-committee.php

Ann Althouse said...

Manhole rat!

Google it!

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

I think the first rat was the best with elegant simple lines. All these other rats just seem to be reaching.

BUMBLE BEE said...

rehajm... Everything You Know Is Wrong (1974) Firesign Theatre. Almost everything they say is wrong. It is useful to remember that when lefties speak. Remind them often!

BUMBLE BEE said...

Tunnel Rat, fitful sleeper.

Big Mike said...

The face does resemble Michael Cohen.

BTW, the reason why there are so many people named "Cohen" around (two named Richard in a recent Althouse post) is because it's the Jewish version of "Smith."

Original Mike said...

"unless “you believe in tooth fairies and ludicrous supply-side economics.”"

Tooth fairy shares up 50% since the 2016 election.

Humperdink said...

So under orders, I googled it.

I presume they released it back into the wild. The inner city? Someone's basement? The humane society until they can find it a good home?

Maybe there is a good-hearted soul who takes in rescue rats.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

No German Rats! Svelte & Domestic only!!

MARGE! Make American Rats Great, Eh!?!

Big Mike said...

@rehajm, Larry Summers also comes off pretty poorly in "The Social Network."

stephen cooper said...

Humperdink:

"maybe there is a good-hearted soul who takes in rescue rats"

Yes there is!

Drago said...

Looks like Inga's beautiful beautiful Boy Prince Justin Trudeau, as of this afternoon, is history.

"Why?" you might find yourself asking.

Well, Inga's Next Real Leader Of The Free World has been exposed by his very own former Attorney General!

Justin personally intervened with the AG to stop a criminal investigation into the actions of a crony corporation. Not only that, Li'l Justin got other members of his administration to pressure the AG to stop the criminal investigation as well!

We are talking 20+ attempts by Trudeau and 11 members of his staff to stop a criminal investigation by pressuring the AG!

And just today, Trudeau's right hand man resigned.

The former AG gave 4 hours of open testimony where she laid out who contacted her when, how and for what purpose.

She named names and times and places in a way that is irrefutable.

Tsk tsk

The Curse Of The Inga Designation As Real Leader Of The Free World continues....and there appears to be no cure.......

Drago said...

Naturally, Rod Rosenstein has likely expanded the jurisdiction of the Mueller probe to include Trumps role in the Justin Trudeau scandal while specifically excluding anything Trudeau or his team might have done.

Precisely as Rosenstein constructed the russia probe here by specifically excluding any options to investigate democrats.

Static Ping said...

Is that the infamous Koala Rat?

narciso said...

That has yet to be determined:

On the banks of the Mediterranean similar patterns occur
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44096/israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-formally-josh-hammer?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter

Darrell said...

Manhole rat!

Google it!


To quote someone that knows . . .

narciso said...

The gist of it:

http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/28/unlike-trump-trudeau-is-in-real-trouble/

Rosalyn C. said...

A street rat! Unlike many of the previous rats who resembled DemocRAT candidates for president.

Darrell said...

Justin Trudeau should go in the eyebrow merkin business.

Titus said...

So I did a guy from tel aviv last week and a guy from Egypt last night. I communicate extremely effectively with Jew ans muz. I believe there is a role for me to play in some sort of piece process. I could hold muz and Jew hog together like Clinton or carter proclaiming victory.

FYI the Jew and muz hogs were similar. I believe we should focus on our similarities rather than differences.

Thank you

narciso said...

Well neither is kosher nor halal:

https://streamable.com/xo186

Ken B said...

Canadian politics just had its biggest scandal in a generation and it is GLORIOUS.

https://kenblogic.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-grinning-legatee-who-taints-prime.html

Just f***ing beautiful. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

Howard said...

Anthropomorphrat

Tommy Duncan said...

Growing up in the bottoms along the Rock River in southern Wisconsin, rats were an everyday part of life. They were abundant in the roots and snags along the banks of the river. They were also common in the barns of the farms near us.

I hated them. They were dirty, disease ridden and ugly along with being dangerous in close quarters. Our dogs hated them and when the opportunity presented itself they made short order of them. The barn rats were susceptible to .22 short rounds fired by 10 year old boys.

Growing up in the 1920's my father shot barn rats for a nickel bounty for each rat. The rats were considered a public health problem. The bounty was paid for the tails. A local Judge paid out the bounty and buried the tails in his garden. Dad would sneak out at night and dig up the buried tails and "cover his tracks". After rinsing the tails with water Dad would collect a second bounty the next day.

I don't find rats trendy.

Titus said...

So I had to ask the Egyptian guy about gay sex in Cairo. I always thought in sounded very dangerous which excited me. He said it is all about caste, which I love. If you are rich you can get away with it. If you are poor you go to prison. I was immediately looking at flights.

madAsHell said...

... what does it take to get out of here?

Said the joker to the thief.
There's just too much confusion.
I can't get no relief.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Rael, Imperial Aerosol Rat,
Wipes his gun-he's forgotten what he did!
And the Rat... gets stuck... on Broadway-
...on Broadway!

Titus said...

I was doing a French Canadian for months. Than we just stopped. His name was Oliver. He was studying at Harvard natch.

Canada

Humperdink said...

Trudeau being pressured to resign? Not sure it's legal in Canada to administer the political death penalty to an adolescent.

Titus said...

I also did a Venezuelan and pretended to empathsuze with his peeps. I was like that sounds horrible less teeth and bend over shithole country. You should consider yourself lucky whitey is doing you.

narciso said...

I pointed out the greater scandal involving Libya where many of the leaders then Cameron, Sarkozy Berlusconi essentially provided air cover for al queda to topple Qaddafi, in the Eastern corner of the country you have fmr regime elements taking back former Ansar territory in the ear you have Beckhaj who directed that the rebel military commander be executed (this is in sid vicious stovepipe intelligence to hillary)

narciso said...

They were all along the watchtower on the radio. I remember that song in the nearly bizarre enough for today wild palms series in the early 90s

Titus said...

I did an uber driver from Libya. He was a bitch. It was the fight for the top. And when I tried to get the front door to his place unlocked he wouldn't help. I missed my uber driver and ended up walking home.

stephen cooper said...

I remember the old Parker Pen Factory near Janesville, the river was a few blocks away, didn't see any rats. That was the 70s, maybe they had moved away after the Depression ended.

All non-human animals are ugly when they threaten our health, everyone knows that. Even the "cute ones" : ever seen a rabid raccoon?

I have, Yikes!

Big Mike said...

@Tommy Duncan, barn rats are nasty, and so barn cats evolved to deal with them.

But pet rats can be a lot of fun. They are intelligent, and generally can be brought to understand what the boundaries are, where they are allowed to go and which rooms (like the kitchen!) they are expected to keep out of. And unlike hippies, pet rats will take a bath.

narciso said...

They may be cute but they are just as likely to be disease vectors.

Inga...Allie Oop said...
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Inga...Allie Oop said...

Benjamin Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges.

Maybe he and Trump will have this in common one day

CWJ said...

Tituss doesn't seem to be a candidate for gay "marriage."

Danno said...

Keep hoping, Inga.

Danno said...

CWJ, It sounds more like he's a candidate for STDs, HIV and AIDs.

Original Mike said...

"They are intelligent, and generally can be brought to understand what the boundaries are, where they are allowed to go and which rooms (like the kitchen!) they are expected to keep out of."

How do you teach a rat to stay out of the kitchen?

narciso said...

So the streamable link refers to a manuscript Cohen had submitted after Charlottesville where he defended trump.

chillblaine said...

meh

chillblaine said...

I will be taking a break from this blog until the rat situation clears up.

n.n said...

It looks like a BOPP. No wonder Democrats and like-minded hate her.

stephen cooper said...

Original Mike - toy water guns work.

Narciso - dude you are bright don't you know that the whole biological universe is a potential disease vector?
As in, without exception? Being a potential disease vector comes with territory if something is biological.
You know that disease, from the point of view of disease, is just another word for the future?


Why does one bother

Kevin said...

"... the rat before him was not an aging rat but a boy, a boy much like himself..."

narciso said...

Well it is, but some are more likely than other, my affirmation of belief was not taken well in some parts, or dismissal of atheism more properly.

Drago said...

Inga: "Benjamin Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges."

And what precisely are those charges Inga?

3 BS "charges" 6 weeks out from the election after sitting on this nonsense for months.

Charges could have been brought months ago...but the Israeli lefties have learned quite a bit from their American lefty pals, as Ted Stevens and Tom Delay could tell you.

None of these charges will survive even the first court challenge. But that's the point isn't it? The Court won't hear the cases until after the election....

think of this as a Dan Rather National Guard hoax hit job just weeks before the election.

On top of the lefties in the EU/Britain overturning movements in Denmark, Belgium and now the UK, along with the deep EU staters trying to pull shenanigans to keep the duly elected conservative Prime Minister of Italy out of office (until the public rose up in outrage), we see a pattern across the entirety of the western world where the lefties are flexing their muscles and establishing the conditions for permanent far left/deep state control and woe to any politician who opposes them.

Scott Patton said...

Kind of a Winnie the Poohrat

Drago said...

I notice Inga has nothing to say about the real corruption of Li'l Justin Trudeau of Canada who just had his former Attorney General give 4 hours of public testimony attesting to the unbelievable corruption of the Canadian govt under Trudeau in pressuring her to stop an actual criminal prosecution.

For realz...not for fakez like the dems here with Trump.

Real corruption...Inga silent.

By tomorrow she will have forgotten the Canadian former AG's testimony has taken place and will be labeling any reference to it as "propaganda".

Original Mike said...

"toy water guns work."

That kinda sounds like fun.

Mark said...

From the Washington Post --

House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates
Behind closed doors, freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatened to put those voting with Republicans “on a list” for a primary challenge in the 2020 election.

effinayright said...

Very old, very lame "joke":

A woman with the last name Carmen.

Married a Mr. Cohen.

She divorced him and reverted to her maiden name Carmen.

Next she married her husband’s brother, and again was Mrs Cohen.

She divorced him and was Carmen again.

Pretty soon her friends weren’t sure if she was Carmen or Cohen.

Baddabish

(I denounce myself)

stephen cooper said...

Trust me it is

wildswan said...

madAsHell said...
... what does it take to get out of here?

Said the joker to the thief.
There's just too much confusion.
I can't get no relief."

For sweet relief watch the testimony of the former Attorney-General of Canada, who was shuffled out of her position because she would not interfere in a prosecution of some huge corporation up there, a prosecution which Justin Trudeau wanted revoked or, as they put it, postponed. She documents the pressure coming from Trudeau leading up to her being shuffled out her position and then gives a beautiful short explanation of why she feels an obligation to maintain the rule of law. It was so great watching a woman who was not disgracing herself, a lawyer who wanted the rule of law and an Attorney General who would not bend to political pressure. There were hours of questions but her statement was only about twenty-nine minutes long. It was like hearing spring rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC4v2OLgYQo. She begins about ten minutes in.

bbkingfish said...

"Tough negotiations" = Kim kicking sand in the face of our 98-pound weakling president, and Trump picking up his beach ball and going home. Trump is now an apologist for the North Korean's torturing and killing an American citizen, and the WPP is A-OK with it. What a sad day for the U.S..

narciso said...

The cases against Netanyahu involve much hearsay and little quid pro quo, but they must take down the lion of the sayat metkal so they can have a puppet in gantz.

narciso said...

Cohen reminds of this fellow

https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1937/04/trials.htm

It was so egregious even abject marxists noted the didcrepancy.

Achilles said...

Inga...Allie Oop said...
Benjamin Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges.

Maybe he and Trump will have this in common one day



If you actually look into it the charges are complete garbage.

Just like the bullshit they are pushing against Trump. But yeah Trump paying hookers to pee on a bed Obama slept in is totally plausible to Inga so she will buy any bullshit on Netanyahu.

Because she is a stupid tool.

What do Trump and Netanyahu have in common? They are fighting the douchebag globalists and serving their people.

Inga and her friends want to destroy Israel, because people have freedom there unlike her favored Iran, so naturally they are going after the leaders that defend it.

It goes along with wishing the economy was worse so democrats could do better. Or republicans who get shot now have a chance to reconsider their stance on the 2nd amendment.

Just simply terrible people.

Michael McNeil said...

It appears to me that the most important thing to come out of the Summit in Vietnam was Trumps summit with… the Vietnamese. Beyond the new trade agreement, I wonder what they talked about?

Achilles said...

Trudeau, Merkel, Macron, May.

All globlist tools. All failing.

narciso said...

Yes that's likely true, think of it in 1945 we were tacitly allied with ho chi Minh (one of those bad calls btw) and against imperial Japan, with 10 years the opposite was true.

Churchy LaFemme: said...

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Churchy LaFemme: said...

How do you teach a rat to stay out of the kitchen?

Make sure it can't stand the heat.

narciso said...

It wreaks of other handism:


https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-netanyahu-indictments-unfair-and-inevitable/

Churchy LaFemme: said...

And the Rat... gets stuck... on Broadway-
...on Broadway!


Blamin' it all on the rats on Broadway
Singin' them low songs
Singin' them straight for the throat songs
Blamin' it all on the rats on Broadway
Singin' them squee sounds
To that crazy, crazy town

Rocko said...

found your fat rat but used DuckDuck as Google is an info pirate.

Roger This said...

Titus is as boring as Drago with his 'LLR Chuck'crap.

narciso said...

Well tmi is the difference,

Big Mike said...

@Original Mike, we put a long narrow box on its side to block the entrance to the kitchen from the family room, but “Skipper” quickly demonstrated the ability to jump up to its top. My wife looked at her, pointed a finger, and said “No!” And that was it. She and our son’s other pet rat never jumped down onto the kitchen floor because they recognized who was the boss.

narciso said...

That bowman novel I mentioned sometime novel a blend of delillo and mailer, mentions three character who would influence the 60 and 70s, Howard hunt, William Burroughs and Carl djerassi, now you know the first two but the last had a more profound affect.

narciso said...

Djerassi who was in Mexico In 1950-1, along with those two characters was the inventor of the pill.

stephen cooper said...

narciso stop living in 2018
the djerassiites have been defeated

the world I live in has no taint of that sin

feel free to think about that, meditate ponder:

yes narrsers some of us know what the world really looks like free from djerassite downsides

I am lucky because of my prayers Djerassi is in a better place than he would have been

Paradiso 29-33

look again this is not the year you think it is

in my America every child who should have been born if not for djerassiism was actually born

look again

stephen cooper said...

look again and tell me you think it is not a nice place

you can't, being an honest person, and you won't, because you were overwhelmed with the beauty and the magnificence you had seen

narciso said...

https://m.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/creator-star-trek-named-villian.html&ved=2ahUKEwj_qIPvnuDgAhXFT98KHTUXB1sQFjAMegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw0r7y5tBpKuqNovyZBQSlax

chickelit said...

Expand "to live freely through writing" to vivere via liberare.

Drago said...

Roger This: "Titus is as boring as Drago with his 'LLR Chuck'crap."

We all have our cross to bear.

Drago said...

So "Roger This" has been on blogger since Feb of 2019.

Impressive.

narciso said...

As you can see from the Tobin link, there is little to these charges

Quaestor said...

Althouse has turned Goth.

traditionalguy said...

Oh the Stress! Rat times, they are a changing.

Humperdink said...

Humperdink: "maybe there is a good-hearted soul who takes in rescue rats"

Stephen Cooper responds: "Yes there is!"

Would that be Elijah Cummings and his committee? Asking for a friend.

stevew said...

Welcome back Rat, you were missed!

This one looks a bit South Park-esque. Angry with furtive eyes. What sort of trouble is it up to?

A coworker friend that is quite liberal brought up the recent political news, in particular the Cohen testimony from the other day. He is disgusted by that show and the antics of the Democrats. His biggest complaint is that it is such a waste of time and not at all focused on addressing the real issues facing our nation. He doesn't say what those are and I suspect we would disagree on them and his favored solution, but I find it notable that he's critical of the Dems focus on political theater for no other purpose but to attack Trump.

Trend?

David Begley said...

I do not like this rat.

Humperdink said...

Looking at the real manhole rat, I am thinking a nine iron would have executed the task rather efficiently.

traditionalguy said...

The Victim Rat wins another news cycle. But the Jussie Smollett type of fake victims are all being trapped in carefully set traps. Trudeau of Canada, Maduro of Venezuela, Alvi of Pakistan, Merkle of Germany, Khamenei of Iran, and Clinton of the destroy America for cash bribes Deep State.

traditionalguy said...

Speaking of the times they are a changing, the Dems will soon be up to 25 announced candidates running for the Presidency. Trump supporters suspect this flood is happening because by becoming a campaigner, the corrupt politicians think they will be protected from future prosecution.

iowan2 said...

The manhole rat thing is funny, cute, unusual. But is a glaring example of how dysfunctional society has become. You are free to do as you please with your own time. But for govt workers to spend more than the 2 seconds to stomp the vermin with the heal of their boot, is emblematic of our problems.

Bob Boyd said...

I love this rat.
But what's a Manhole Rat? A sewer rat that's transitioning?

Meade said...

He's trying to transition but he's stuck. Stuck inside a manhole with the Bensheim blues again.

joshbraid said...

"Trump supporters suspect this flood is happening because by becoming a campaigner, the corrupt politicians think they will be protected from future prosecution"

I suggest an alternative explanation. Given the flood of announced candidates, the chance of winning the nomination is slim. However, if one can raise a couple of million dollars, spend only 50% of the money raised on the campaign to show good faith, then have to drop out, there is really no reason to suspect fraud. However, one has just made a couple of million dollars since leftover campaign funds are available to the candidate! Such a deal!

Reminds me of the movie "The Producers", where failure makes them lots of money.

FullMoon said...

Meade said...

He's trying to transition but he's stuck. Stuck inside a manhole with the Bensheim blues again.


....can this really be the end?

stevew said...

"Trump supporters suspect this flood is happening because by becoming a campaigner, the corrupt politicians think they will be protected from future prosecution"

Here's another alternative explanation: they saw how the great number of candidates helped Trump win the nomination and are attempting to replicate his winning approach.

Jim at said...

Washington governor Jay Inslee today announced he's running for President.

Those of us who live in this state know just how much of a dim bulb he is. Wait until the rest of you find out.