against colonialism? aren'tall basically that way in our thinking? isn't being anti-colonial part of being american? that's "hardball" for you. thanks for being with us. "ountdown with keith olbermann" starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? the jobs report. when there were new government jobs, boehner bithced when there were fewer government jobs, boehner bitched. now, after he has voted against bills to create small business jobs, boehner bitches again. >> this coming election is about one issue. jobs. it's about jobs that were promised to the american people by the current administration but never delivered. >> but gop magic act. republicans block job growth then blame democrats for the

lack of job growth. with ezra klein and senator bernie sanders. shutting down the government. joe miller said he and mitch mcconnell decided it's on the table. mcconnell denies this. stopping the madness in nevada in the land of sharron angle. key republicans have endorsed harry reid. the anti-u.s. chamber of commerce strikes again suing the government when it tries to protect you from big companies. power to the corporations. and the chamber's latest attack ad lists the home phone number of a democratic candidate. the next voice you hear, the chairman of the republican party of wisconsin. >> it would be good if we captured obama in the battlefield setting i hope he has an explanation as to why he thinks obama ought not to be executed. obama should be executed and he ought to be treated as a war criminal. >> uh-oh.

fridays with thurber. part two of the dog that bit people. and what you have done to help them. all the news and commentary now on "countdown." good evening from new york, it is the great shell game after fighting every single job creation measure proposed by democrats in congress and the white house, killing some watering down others, the house republican leader today used the very last monthly jobs report, we'll get before the election, to slam president obama. for failing to create jobs. our fifth story, job creation. republicans fought every step of the way for political gain over which they stand for opposition and for the results of it. millions of americans out of work, struggling to survive. the president and house republican leader boehner spoke obje about today's jobs reports

painting different picture. the congressman blamed the administration. >> this morning we got the latest national jobs report from the department of labor. it looks a lot like the reports we've seen every month since president obama signed the stimulus spending bill into law. unemployment is high. millions of americans are out of work. private sector job creation remains flat. that's what you got for your $787 billion worth of spending. high unemployment, a bigger government, and an economy struggling to create jobs. the upcoming election is a referendum. as americans, we have to decide, do we want another two years of job killing policies coming out of washington? or have we had enough? >> he's reading a teleprompter by the way. president obama however claimed the private sector actually gained jobs. >> this morning we learned that in the month of september our

economy gained 64,000 jobs in the private sector. july and august private sector job numbers were revised upwards. so we've now seen nine straight months of private sector job growth. in all, more than 850,000 private sector jobs gained this year. which is in sharp contrast to the almost 800,000 jobs that we were losing when i first took office. >> who's telling the truth? the labor department said the country lost 95,000 jobs in total. how could the president claim the private sector added jobs? unlike mr. boehner the president explained where the jobs are s just appearing from. hint, what's the role of big government in jobs news ? >> that news is tempered by a net job loss in september which was fueled in large measure by the end of temporary census jobs and by layoffs in state and local governments. i should point out that these

continuing layoffs by state and local governments, the teachers and police officers and firefighters and the like, would have been even worse without the federal help we provided to states over the last 20 months. help that the republicans in congress have consistently opposed. i think the republican position doesn't make much sense, since the weakness in public sector employment is a drag on the private sector as well. >> that's right. government got so much smaller it offset private sector growth. this is public job change for the last two years. here's the private sector. and how does the private sector add jobs in the recession? government spending on infrastructure for one thing. >> i believe that instead of sitting still we should invest in rebuilding america's roads and railways and runways. too many american workers have been out of work for months. even years. that doesn't do anybody any good

when there's so much of america to rebuild. our infrastructure is falling far behind what the rest of the world is doing, and upgrading it is vital to our economy and our future competitiveness. >> what did republican new jersey governor chris christie announce today? he will now think about not canceling america's biggest transportation project. a tunnel hundreds of millions of dollars already spent, doubling rail capacity into new york, already under way. the jobs of the builders hanging on it. to say nothing of money, new jersey may have to repay to the federal government, all of it hanging on christie's decision. let's turn to ezra klein, staff writer at the "washington post." columnist for "newsweek" magazine. good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> you referred to the effect president obama referenced as the anti-stimulus. explain that to mr. boehner if he's watching what he's missing. >> in 2009 we passed $787 billion bill. contrary to what mr. boehner

said, at that point you see job losses begin to reverse. we're at 800,000 losing every month then it slowly modulates until we go up to positive job numbers in the early and mid part of 2010. of course, the stimulus is ending now. we didn't do it for more than two years. state and local governments are cin essentially collapsing. revenues are collapse. they're contracting. they're firing people and just as when a business fires people it adds people to the unemployment rolls. when a government fires people it adds people. it's important, it's bad for business. the businesses will not invest until they think jobs are coming back and people can buy their stuff. if jobs are not coming back because state governments are firing everybody, businesses won't be able to fire either. >> republicans hammer like what sound like an intuitive argument. you can't borrow your way out of recession. i've heard this two years since the recession started. might be true at home over the kitchen table. why is it not for the federal government? >> imagine an economy, you have

three people who can spend. one, consumers, one is business, one is the government. you have a massive financial crisis where con sumters and businesses are taken out of the game. there's nobody to buy anything. if there's nobody to buy anything businesses can't employ anyone. that means no money goes to consumers and neither businesses or consumers get back into spending. government needs to step in. not forever, but until the other two can get back on their feet. government did a good job of that at the beginning. because of republican obstruction has taken itself out of the game. we had nine months of private sector growth offset by private sector contraction. the government, small government policy we're running here is essentially destroying the recovery. >> numbers, predictions for the state and local numbers for next year are worse. mr. obama's prospects for overcoming republican opposition to another stimulus plan obviously worse. no matter how the midterms turn out. does america get any jobs back between now and 2012?

>> hopefully some will come back. look, this is a real dangerous chance of becoming self-perpetuating. if you don't move, if we continue have weakness in the market or foreclosure crisis makes things worse we'll have a situation where people are out of jobs long enough, it becomes hard to employ them, their skills deteriorate. we're in a dangerous place for government to walk out of the game. the great depression ended after world war ii. we don't need to have a world war. we need congress to not decide it's time to give up on the american economy. >> the debate in new jersey about bailing out on this double of the rail capacity into new york city and the jobs that it would create in the short term and jobs and infrastructure it would create in the long term. can you explain that briefly to governor christie who doesn't get it? >> infrastructure is the best deal in the economy right now. if you want to see where we've lost jobs it's construction. the housing sector collapsed. raw materials are cheap. concrete, steel, wood.

it's very, very cheap and cheap for the government to borrow. the best thing we can do is invest in infrastructure. we'll never have this good of deal again. we will need to rebuild our infrastructure in the future. we have a great deal here in the economy, employ the people we need to employ. christie is stepping out of it. it's a terrible business decision for the government. >> ezra klein for "newsweek" and "washington post." have a good weekend. to independent senator bernie sanders of vermont. thank you for your time, sir. >> good to be with you, keith. >> republicans fought job creation every step of the way. now they're reaping the benefits. it's mission accomplished, right? >> i tell you, it is incomprehensible to me that john boehner would have the chutzpa to talk about jobs when in the bush administration after eight years they ended up losing 600,000 private sector jobs duri during. during the bush years we lost 5 million good paying manufacturing jobs and they took

us through the deregulation policies to the biggest financial collapse since the great depression. the idea of these guys talking about jobs is really incomprehensible. >> ezra klein just reviewed how we got out of the depression fairly sack succinctly. i thought no reason to go through it again. does mr. boehner know about this? is it something he was out that day in school? is it ignorance or cynicism? how can he say you can't spend your way out of recession or worse. >> this is what they want to do. right now they want to give $700 billion in tax breaks to the wealthiest 2% at a time when almost all income gains made in recent years have gone to the very, very rich and the top 1% now earns more income than the bottom 50%. that's apparently not enough for mr. boehner. in my view and in the view of many people in democratic

caucus, what we should be doing is using a lot of that $700 billion for infrastructure improvement. rebuilding our roads, bridges, rail systems, water systems. when you do that, over a period of time you're going to create millions of good paying jobs. you do that by restructuring our energy system so we stop importing saudi arabia and move to sustainable energy. that's how you create jobs and make america stronger. >> to paraphrase mr. limbaugh, do you think the republicans want the people of this country to succeed at the moment? >> i'm on the floor of the senate a whole lot. it astounds me on every single issue of significance, no matter what it is, they are filibustering, filibustering, filibustering. here they are, they tell us they're the great supporters of small business. we brought together a small business bill which will provide

affordable loans to businesses which desperately need them so they can expand, so they can create decent paying jobs and we barely got any republican support at all. so if you're asking me, do i think the republicans are more interested in creating jobs, expanding the middle class, or are they really interested in defeating anything that president obama brings forth? are they more interested in protecting the interests of wealthy and powerful supporters? i would have to say the latter is true. >> of course your small business bill addressed small-sized businesses with small profits, small numbers of employees. small business. mom and pop. their idea and definition of a small business is the "chicago tribune." it's the number of owners, that is, again, can't say that too often. that is what the definition on the republican side is of a small business. let me ask you in sums, senator, why are the republicans -- with this much of a shell game going on, why are the republicans rewarded for this at the polls?

>> i think at the end of the day the economy is hurting and people are frustrated and people want action. and in truth, the democrats should have been more aggressive, should have been bolder. for example, the issue of outsourcing. the democrats should have stood up from day one and said, you know what, no more jobs going to china, we're going to demand corporate america reinvest in the united states of america and create good jobs here. we brought a bill to the floor last week. you know how many republicans who voted for the bill to protect us against outsourcing? zero. not one. so i think this is -- this choice, this election really is a choice. and boehner is right. it's whether we go back to the failed policies of the bush administration or whether we demand the obama people become more aggressive so we can pull us out of this wall street-caused recession. >> bernie sanders of vermont. summing it up as usual. thank you kindly, senator. have a good weekend. >> thank you. there are governments of rationality coming in from tea party land. christine o'donnell, ten days

ago claiming she went to princeton and oxford is proclaiming she did not go to yale. sharron angle getting so loopy, too keen about republicans just endorsed harry reid. next. ♪ when it's planes in the sky ♪ ♪ for a chain of supply, that's logistics ♪ ♪ when the parts for the line ♪ ♪ come precisely on time ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ a continuous link, that is always in sync ♪ ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ there will be no more stress ♪

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with republicans in charge shut down the government? the 5:00 shadow knows. he claims mitch mcconnell told him. u.s. chamber of horrors putting this democrat's home phone number in an attack ad and plans to sue the government to protect the poor businesses from you. he plains it was a gaffe though he dismissed the idea there were gaffes. the chairman that calls for the execution of, quote, obama. and the update for your help, the cranicks. g to buy. nobody sells more real estate than re/max. visit remax.com today.

last month when talk began of a government shutdown leaking out of republican tea party circles, dick armey, current tea party astroturfer reminded compatriots of first rule of government shutdown, you don't talk about government shutdown. tea party republicans are breaking the first rule of government shutdown. half baked alaska joe miller telling the "national review" i think there's an understanding the mood of the nation has changed in a way there's not going to be a toleration of business as usual. asked if mcconnell would be up for a shutdown miller responded, there was a comment made at breakfast about shutting down the government. mcconnell reacted in a positive way. i'm not going to quote him but i think he recognizes that's on the table. mcconnell's office pushing back. a spokesman says republicans can reduce government, quote, without shutting down the government but it will require democrats to join our effort. eric cantor last week told the "wall street journal" quote, i

don't think the country needs or wants a shutdown. today mark mekler jabbing back, maybe i'm one of those yahoos. i think it's crazy to take anything off the table. i think cantor is making this mistake. in alaska, joe miller's everything is unconstitutional theory of government suffered two more blows. a federal judge in michigan ruling the mandatory enrollment portion of the affordable health care act is allowed under commerce clauses. also yesterday miller confirming that in the past his family received assistance from federal medicaid. assistance like federal unemployment benefits miller wants to deny everybody else because he thinks they're unconstitutional. sharron angle's juice is spoils. two leading nevada republicans, the wife of the state's former republican governor and state senator bill raggio endorsing harry reid. raggio who defeated angle in a 2008 primary calling her

ineffective, radical with extreme views on medicare, social security, administration. the candidate springing a trap set for mr. reid in march by tom coburn. the ad claims and she expects to be taken seriously after an ad like this, that reid supports giving viagra to child molesters and sex offenders. of course he doesn't. who would? in delaware christine o'donnell finally revealed her number one qualification to become a senator. >> i have a graduate fellowship from the claremont institute in constitutional government. it is that deep analysis of the constitution that has helped me to analyze and have an opinion on what's going on today and be able to determine that. our leaders in washington have lost their way. >> talking points memo points out the number one qualification for senate was an intensive eight-day course. slightly more impressive than a certificate of completion from

sleepaway magic camp. at least unlike her pal joe miller ms. o'donnell never went to yale. >> i didn't go to yale. >> or oxford or princeton. joining me, reporter, msnbc contributor who spent the day at the virginia tea party patriot's convention. good evening, dave. >> good evening. >> mcconnell and cantor downp y downplaying the government shutdown idea. did he not get the message about not opening the pandora's box until after christmas? >> joe miller is in the spirit of what the republican base wants. cantor's job is to elect as many republicans as possible. joe miller's job is to elect joe miller and give interviews to conservative newspapers. he's saying, if they're serious about changing the country when they take over, be ready to stop everything in its tracks. what i noticed today in richmond republican base moved from

hoping they win the election, because they're confident they will, too just getting ready for the coming infighting. getting ready to stage a battle with they demand a complete shutdown, complete repeal, everything they were promised in the heat of the tea party movement from republicans. it's not clear if they can get it if you listen to cantor. >> let me just go off topic. complete repeal of health care reform? >> well, yeah, they want -- people told me today they've been telling me, they expect republican candidates if they're serious to sign on to discharge petition and immediate vote as soon as they can on repealing all of health care. republican strategists, you know, they're pretty giddy. if you catch them in the moments when they're less giddy, they realize this is going to be tough when republican party either is unable to get that through or barack obama vetoes it. >> that part. >> shut down such good politics for them either. there's a version of history in which republicans lost congress because they were not conservative enough. in that history the shutdown was great for them.

in reality the shutdown involved the fda not checking foods and people not getting checks they expected. the democrats relish it for a reason because they remember how bad it actually was. this is -- there's very few ways to remind people of why they like the government sometimes. that's one of them. barack obama hasn't been able to manifest one of them, but that's one. when the government stops performing essential functions. >> you mention the part about not really thinking through the whole idea of the presidential veto on the repeal of something like health care reform. we're expecting stuff like that. to the point there is actual blowback to some of the nonrealistic aspects of the tea party in particular, what happened in nevada with sharron angle and harry reid and endorsements from the republicans? is that -- is somebody throws their hand up from the back of the crowd going you guys are nuts? does it mean anything? >> well, it was actually totally unexpected. you pointed out bill raggio hold off an angle challenge earlier in his career. from all we know really does

think she was an inconfident radical in legislature. that's exactly what her base wants to hear. they're kind of spinning this as more proof -- there's really nothing a tea party candidate can do wrong if they're irritating the establishment. if christine o'donnell cuts an ad that seems to the rest of us ridiculous it's proof the establishment is missing the point. if joe miller says something that mitch mcconnell walks back, it proves joe miller is a straight talker and mcconnell is not. the fact everyone around sharron angle says she can't hack it is proof she can hack it or something. >> and a veto proof majority and a million dollars in everybody's christmas stocking. msnbc contributor -- that might be true for major corporations. msnbc contributor dave waggle. have a great weekend. the u.s. chamber of commerce is no longer trying to lie even that it is supporting this country or its people. only its corporations.

its latest bid to sue the government to keep it from protecting you, ahead.

the chamber of commerce at it again putting a democratic candidate's home phone number in an attack ad. sanity break and tweet of the day from our friend phil rogers of "chicago tribune." does anybody know a proper etiquette for the passenger when a cab is being pulled over by a police officer and the cabbie doesn't stop? that doesn't sound good. let's play "oddball."

time for another oddball cautionary tale. your wedding day for many brides is a day that takes months of planning, cake, flowers, dress, oh yeah, groom. say you found the perfect guy, perfect gown, had a ceremony so beautiful one of your guests had his difficult time controlling his happiness. >> got it on video. >> in the dog's defense it is more environmentally friendly than throwing rice. london, england, arg mamate. she wrote a letter to one pirts in particular, soliciting his help when ahoy mati, actor johnny depp happened to be

filming "pirates of the caribbean nearby" and decided to surprise she and her friends. >> we shall take over the school and we shall eat nothing but candy. >> it was the teacher's turn to seek help from captain morgan. finally, tropicana field, site of yesterday's tampa bay rays, texas rangers playoff game. charlie crist given out the honors of throwing the first pitch. conditions on the ground couldn't be better until governor crist running as an independent, state senate race, veered suddenly to the right. i think that hit marco rubio over there. time marches on. by the way, as somebody who picked the rays, the ad where the kid says to evan longoria, great game yesterday? not so effective today. the latest from the anti-u.s. chamber of commerce and wisconsin gop chair who keeps talking about executing obama. next.

the nation's largest big

business lobbying group the u.s. chamber of commerce has been playing defense all week. it learned it's not just the u.s. chamber of commerce, something more like the manchurian chamber of commerce, taking money from overseas from big businesses around the world, some controlled by foreign go governments, and subsidize operations that include running attack ads against democrats that stand in the way of the rich getting richer. one of the chamber's favorite tactics, reduce your right to fight back against these big corporations, been to push new laws that limit your ability to sue in court. frivolous lawsuits they call them. what did the chamber's president announce will be their big new weapon to attack new regulations? lawsuits. lots and lots and lawsuits. chiller be president tom donahue outlined his plan in a speech last night. this is a group fighting to limit your ability to sue. litigation, he says is one of the most powerful tools for

making sure federal agencies follow the law and are held accountable. public policy land firm stands reddy to take the alphabet soup of them to court. donahue, we've sued the epa six times alone this year. what else? reuters reports jus this week the s.e.c. suspend ed a new rul that gave pea who own stock in a company more of a say with the company's board. american stockholders froze out because of a lawsuit filed by the foreign funded chamber of commerce which held a reception for bahrain banks today. he did identify the targets of future lawsuits but identified other priorities such as fighting a new labor rule that requires your boss to explain why you are being denied overtime like protecting health insurance companies from you. insurance plans that have raised premiums have been warned by

secretary kathleen sebelius they may be banished from participating in the new changes if she deems their increases unreasonable. mr. donahue put unreasonable in quotation marks. they're running an attack ad against democratic house candidate julie lasa in wisconsin where they tell people to call her and then put her home phone number on the screen. let's turn to robert wiseman, president of consumer advocacy group, public citizen. thanks for your time tonight, sir. >> good to be with you. >> the chamber of commerce brand name, a group called the institute for legal reform which opposes lawsuits against big business. and it has another group called the national chamber litigation center which files lawsuits against big government. this would seem to be something of a contradiction. can you explain the dynamic here? >> plain and simple. the chamber of commerce gives hypocrisy a bad name. they think people who are victims of corporate crime and

wrongdoing, defective products, dangerous drugs, rip-off contracts, should not have a right to a day in court. they think big business should have a right to use, abuse and misuse courts to block government from enforcing rules to protect all of us. we heard, today in fact, that taxes kill jobs. that regulations kill jobs. and yet somehow in the clinton presidency, that was massive job growth. if the chamber is not really fighting regulation because it's a job killer, that's a front for something else, what's the something else? why are they fighting it? >> hypocrisy of this claim is staggering. the reason we're in the great recession right now is because we don't have enough regulation. didn't have enough regulation. if we had regulation on wall street, we wouldn't be in the boat we're in now. if we had regulation in the gulf of mexico we wouldn't have had the bp disaster. regulation in the west virginia mine fields we wouldn't have had the mine disaster there. regulation at the fda we would

have maridia pulled from the market today eight years after we asked it to be pulled. they really believe it's about jobs? no. they believe it's about the bottom line for the big multinational corporations they represent. >> how much of the chamber's agenda is serving foreign interests? is that not the biggest of the problems? is it not nation versus nation but the rich global multinational jet setters versus the rest of us? >> i think it's exactly that. the chamber of commerce is a trade association that represents the big multinational corporations. these are corporations that may be based in the united states. they may be based in bahrain, may be based in china. they have a national or super-national interests. they want to pit countries against each oather, pit the united states against china, south africa, against peru. they're in european union now telling the europeans too much regulation we might move to america. here they are in the united states saying, you do too much,

can't make jobs here. >> so then if the chamber's now staffing up to sue the obama administration more, what's the remedy or counterstrategy? >> we need the administration and congress to stare down these challenges and regulate on behalf of the american people and not listen to the big business donors. that's the first part. that's not going to happen unless we all make it happen. the second part is, we have to deal with the underlying problem of why the chamber has political power. that's the citizens united decision that's unleashed this corporate money in election process. this is going to require the movement to overturn the supreme court decision. >> that is truly pandora's box. president of public citizen. thanks for your time tonight. have a great weekend. three times at news conference he calls for the capture on the battlefield and the execution of, quote, obama, unquote. mercifully, it's friday with thurber time. part two of the dog that bit people. when rachel joins now s yoe

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conclusion of thurber's the dog that bit people. debt out pitchforks and torches. worst persons in the world. the bronze to tokyo rose limbaugh. this is mind blowing. or mind altering. >> there is no equality. you cannot guarantee that any two people will end up the same. and you can't legislate it and you can't make it happen. you can try, under the guise of fairness and so forth, but some people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy, some people are born victims. some people are just born to be

slaves. >> the tea party thing has been a liberation for limbaugh so he can stop being politically correct and tell us how he really feels. the bill hicks is still ahead of his time clip of the week is about limbaugh. it was recorded in 1991. i can't play any of it on television. listen to it yourself. i recommend by yourself. runner-up, brian fisher of american family association, who insisted on outlawing mosques. he wants to ban the teachings of jesus christ. this is about the cranick fire. the fire department responded it would have violated the terms of its contract with its liability insurance carrier so christian friends would want the fire department to break its agreement and put the city in a position of virtually unlimited risk. that's hardly sounds like a christian thing to do. demand somebody violate a solemn oath and put a city at needless risk at the time. shall obey the insurance overlords. the fire department did the

right and christian thing. this story, a fundamental difference between a sappy secular world view which too many chris chans adopted and the world view which made america the strongest and most prosperous nation in the world. yeah, take from the natives their continent. unto thyself bestow their mineral rights and invadeth to others before they invadeth to you. we're talking about jesus christ here. our winners, the chairman of the wisconsin republican party. what else could he do with that name? this is mr. prebis on his conference call with reporters. this would be one freudian slip. >> a big part of russ feingold's playbook has been to paint ron johnson as an extremist. feingold mentioned that he thought that it would be good if we captured and -- captured

obama in the battlefield setting and that he suffered the quote/unquote ultimate punishment there. >> i'm giving you one. one freudian slip. >> i hope he as an explanation as to why he think obama ought not be executed. >> you think it's already creepy? now it's creepy. >> what is ron johnson's position on the same issues? >> my guess is he would believe, i'm guessing here, my guess is he would believe obama should be executed and he ought to be treated as a war criminal. >> reince, this is greg with wispolitics. you made a couple of references to execution of obama. you mean osama bin laden i take it? >> right. >> chairman of republican party in the state of wisconsin. by the way, before you talk about using the wrong word or that just being a gaffe, helpfully in the very same call, in the same few minutes mr. preibis dispelled that excuse,

too. >> some people would just say, well, maybe he just used the wrong word and it was just a fw gaffe from a normally smooth, skilled politician. if that's the case, then it's a pretty major misstep this close to the election. >> you bet. preibis, chairman of the wisconsin republican party, my guess wants obama executed. today's worst person in the world. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ daylight comes ♪ i'm on my way [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ working my whole life away [ dogs barking ] ♪ the boss told me ♪ i'd get paid weakly

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before we close the week with thurber, three trusher notes. thanks to the notes at thurber house for letting me speak at monday's institution in new

york. it was a flight. my birthday wishes a day late to mr. thurber's daughter, my friend rosemary. thurber and dogs are intertwined. i began his tale of mugs. the air dale sinking his teeth into everybody. and his mother who was forever making excuses for mugs. we'll finish this out of the library of america thurber writings and drawings with part ii of the dog that bit people. by james thurber. one time my mother went to the chittenton hotel to call on a woman mental healer lecturing about harmonious vibrations to find out if it was possible to get harmonious vibrations into a dog. he's a large tan colored air dale, mother explained. the woman said she never treated a dog but advised my mother to hold the thought he did not bite and would not bite. mother was holding the thought the very next morng when mugs i.

if you didn't think he would bite you, he wouldn't, mother told him. he stomped out of the house. one morning when mugs bit me slightly more or less in passing i reached down and grabbed his short stumpy tail and hoisted him into the air. it was a foolhardy thing to do. the last time i saw my mother six months ago she said she didn't know what possessed me. i was pretty mad. as long as i held the dog off the floor by his tail he couldn't get at me. he twisted and jerked so snarling all the time i realized i couldn't hold him that way very long. i carried him to the kitchen and flung him on to the floor and shut the door on him as he crashed against it. i forgot about the back stairs. mugs went up the back stairs and down the front stairs and had me cornered in the living room. i managed to get on the mantle of the fireplace. it came down with a crash. throwing a clock, several vases and myself heavily to the floor.

must bes was so alarmed by the racket when i picked myself up he had disappeared. we couldn't find him anywhere. although we whistled and sho shouted. until old mrs. detwiler called after dinner that night. mugs had bitten her once in the leg. she came into the living room after we assured her mugs had run away. she had just seated herself when the great growling and scratching of claws, mugs emerged from under the davenport where he had been quietly hiding all the time and bit her again. mother examined the bike and told her it was only a bruise. he jump bumped you, she said. mrs. detwiler left the house in a nasty state of mind. lots of people reported our air dale to the police. my father held a municipal office at the time and was on friendly terms with the police. the cops had been out a couple times, once when he bit lieutenant governor malloy.

mother told them it hadn't been mugs' fault but the fault of the people that were bitten. when we starts for them they scream, and that excites him. the cops suggested it might be a good idea to tie the dog up. the mother said it mortified him to be tied up and he wouldn't eat when he was tied up. mugs at his meals was an unusual sight because of the fact if you reached toward the floor he would bite you. we usually put his food plate on top of an old kitchen table with a bench alongside the table. mugs would stand on the bench and eat. i remember that my mother's uncle who boasted he was the third man on missionary ridge was splutteringly indignant when he found out we put the plate on the table. he said he would put the dog's plate on the floor if we gave it to him. roy said if uncle fed mugs on the ground just before the battle he would have been the

first man on missionary ridge. uncle was furious. bring your men, bring your men now, he shouted. i'll feed them. on the floor. roy was all for giving him a chance. my father said mugs had already been fed. i'll feed him again, bawled uncle heracio. in his last year mugs spent all of his time outdoors. he didn't like to stay in the house some reason or another. perhaps it held too many unpleasant memories. it was hard for him to come in. the gash ajs man, ice man and laundry man wouldn't come to the house. we had to haul the laundry to the corner and meet the ice man a block from home. we hit on an ingenious arrangement for getting the dog in the house to lock him up while the gas meter was read and so on. mugs was afraid of one thing, an

electrical storm. thunder and lightning frightened him out of his senses. i think he thought a storm had broken day the mantelpiece fell. he rushed into the house and wide under a bed or clothes closet. so we fixed up a thunder machine out of a long narrow piece of sheet iron with a wooden handle on one end. mother would shake this vigorously when she wanted to get mugs into the house. it made an excellent imitation of thunder. it was the most roundabout system for running a household. a few months before mugs died he got to seeing things. he would rise slowly from the floor, growling low, and stalk stiff legged and menacing toward nothing at all. sometimes the thing would be just a little to the right or left of a visitor. once a fuller brush salesman got hysterics, mugs came into the

room like hamlet following his father's ghost. his eyes were fixed on the a spot to the left of the brush man who stood until mugs was three slow creeping paces from him then he shouted. mugs wavered past him in the highway grumbling to himself but the fuller man went on shrugging. my mom had to throw a pan of cold water on to him to make him stop. mugs died suddenly one night. mother wanted to bury him under a marble stone with a description, flights of angels to thy rest. we persuaded her it was against the law. we put up a smooth board on his grave, i wrote with an indelible pencil, cava canem. mother was pleased with the dignity of the old latin epitaph. the dog that bit people by james