A Real Ninja Turtle
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This is my kind of turtle.
April 12, 2008
March 14, 2008
Amazing!
For the first ever, I actually laughed at an LOLCat:
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Hat Tip: The Anchoress
Now, this doesn't change the fact that cats are pure evil and therefore beyond redemption. So, obviously abstaining meat would be pointless for them.
March 2, 2008
In Memoriam: Some of William F. Buckley's Greatest Quotes
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.""Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
"I think it is the centrality of the assumption that the Catholic Church is the Church that was founded by Christ. But they all have polisticity, for sure. A lot of people do think that. And if it’s so, then you’d want to say, well, give me a good reason for not joining it? Now, I know there are an awful lot of reasons, awful lot of subtle, theological questions here, but that is the point that is most--that, plus also its general record and the constancy of its performance are morally--I find that pretty impressive. Two thousand years is a long time."
"You cultivate the essential virtues: high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom."
"It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!"
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."
"I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth."
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
"The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house."
During a sailboat race from Miami to The Bahamas in 1973, Buckley was declared lost at sea. Asked if he was ever frightened at the possibility of perishing on the high seas, he replied; "No, I just stayed busy emptying champagne bottles, stuffing them with dirty notes I'd written to Fidel Castro, and casting them into the ocean".
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January 30, 2008
Can demons possess cats?
QUESTION: Can demons possess cats?
PETER KREEFT: Cats need no demons; they are already completely evil.-- Peter Kreeft, Angels (and Demons), p. 123
January 8, 2008
Cats: Nothing but Trouble
It's lights out for cat at power station - CNN.com
A cat picked the wrong place to come in from the cold, and caused a power outage that blacked out more than 12,000 homes and businesses.The cat entered an electrical substation, snuggled up to a warm transformer and contacted a live circuit, causing a short that killed the cat and blew out nine electrical feeder lines Monday afternoon, Idaho Power officials said.
October 26, 2007
Cats are Evil: Biblical Proof!
In the Book of Baruch, while listing curses that will fall upon dishonorable priests, the inspired author writes:
Bats and swallows alight on their bodies and on their heads; and cats as well as birds.
As we see from this verse, cats are a punishment from God.
October 11, 2007
Cat Starts Fire; Dog Saves Family
Dog saves family from fire blamed on cat - Yahoo! News
Thumper, a black Labrador retriever, is getting credit for saving a Greenville man when a fire swept through his home.Roland Cote says his wife and their 7-year-old grandson were away when the blaze started early Sunday in a converted two-story garage. He says Thumper grabbed him by the arm to wake him, leaving just enough time for him to dial 911 before fleeing the fast-moving fire.
While the dog is the hero, a cat is the bad guy in this story.
Cote says the fire marshal investigator believes the blaze was started when Princess, the family cat, tipped over a kerosene lantern. Cote says he and his pets escaped safely, but he says Princess did get her tail singed by the flames.
Offered without comment.
Hat Tip: The Corner
October 5, 2007
I knew a cat couldn't be up to any good
Chico who is Pope Benedict's 9-year old cat has filed an injunction against the release of the book by Italian author Jeanne Perego. "Chico and Joseph -- A Cat Recounts the Life of Pope Benedict XVI" a illustrated 44-page book is purported to cover the life of the Pope through Chico's eyes.
We should have known better than to expect a creature as evil as a cat to say good things about the Vicar of Christ.
October 1, 2007
It is always a sin to hate?
It's generally accepted in Christianity that it is a sin to hate someone or something. A while back, I asked a priest who was hearing my confession, "Father, I know it's a sin to hate, but is it really a sin to hate the Yankees?" He responded, "That's a bit a of a gray area."
So I propose the following list of things that it makes sense to believe fall into that same gray area:
- The Yankees
- Adam Eaton
- Derek Jeter
- The Dallas Cowboys
- Cats
- People who answer the phone "Yello?"
- People who say "Supposebly"
- Drivers who try to muscle their cars in front of you after you've been waiting in a long line they drive around
- The Mets
- Tim McCarver
- Men who talk to other men in the men's room
- The Inventor of the necktie
- People who don't recognize that no one can hear the priest during Mass because their child is screaming so loudly
September 22, 2007
Dogs helping convicts become better persons
The latest Our Sunday Visitor has an article about a program where inmates in prisons are training dogs to assist the disabled that helps them become better persons.
You don't hear about cats helping people become better persons. But you do hear about them being augurs of death.
September 9, 2007
Praying like cats and dogs
It started with a joke.A dog says, "You pet me, you feed me, you love me, you must be God."
A cat says, "You pet me, you feed me, you love me, I must be God."
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With so many pets in so many homes, people tend to smile at the analogy. Cats tend to be aloof and self-centered. Dogs are warm and have no trouble looking to a higher authority.But, to the authors, the analogy goes further. Cats are like Christians who always want to feel blessed and feel that life is fair.
But, what if a person's life becomes like Job's in the Bible? He was a good man but he lost his wealth, possessions, friends and family.
The article also came with this handy chart:
| Dogs | Cats |
| God is lord | I am lord |
| Serve God whatever comes | Serve God when it's fun |
| Hungry to worship | Hungry to be entertained |
| An obedience theology | A feel-good theology |
| Know hell exists | Can't believe in hell |
| Repentance in/holiness in | Repentance out/self-esteem in |
| A job is an opportunity for ministry | A job is a means of wealth |
| Blessings to be passed on | Blessings to be hoarded |
So who should be more like, dogs or cats? If we want to love God, we should learn from dogs and resist the cat in each of us.
August 7, 2007
Kitten Cannon
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Excellent game: shooting cats into explosives, trampolines and venus flytraps. Great fun.
July 26, 2007
Prediction or Causation?
Duffy reminded me I need to point out the seemingly obvious conclusion of this:
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.
"He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," said Dr. David Dosa in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Rather than believing in the precognitive ability of a cat, maybe we should ask if the cat is somehow killing these patients?
July 17, 2007
Dogs: Selfless; Cats: Selfish
The Corner on National Review Online
Hood opines: "Dogs may be friendlier, but cats have been more useful." Uh huh, Mr. Hood. And pray tell Mr. Hood: Who, exactly, would you prefer to have in your foxhole? The noble hound or the mercenary-yet-languid cat? Do you sleep better (no doubt having nodded-off reading Jack London's exciting tales of man and cat alone in the wilderness) knowing your cat has watchful eyes on the neighborhood or because your vigilant canine is on the job? How many blind people do you see walking the streets with their seeing-eye cats? Does your heart palpitate when you see drug-sniffing cats at the airport? For surely, your sobriety is in doubt for you to say such things....
Dogs have been allies in war for thousands of years.
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While not quite a myth, it is something of an exaggeration that cats are extremely competent or useful ratters. Once sated on the flesh of vermin, the typical cat takes little to no interest in dispatching any more rodents, preferring instead to spend the remainder of the day digesting in the warm sun. Dogs, meanwhile, are some of the greatest ratters in the world. The terrier in particular can mount enormous numbers of kills, all to please his master, not his belly.An example close to home: my father-in-law once bought a supposedly champion cat to get rid of mice in his supermarket. Very soon, the cat had chosen to empty the seafood case instead. This was around the same time my in-law's family dog, Snowball, physically prevented my father-in-law from pulling the Lincoln town car out of the garage for fear the car might hit one of the kids playing in the driveway. Snowball put his body between the car and the girl and stood his ground saying to the metallic beast: Ye shall not pass. The lesson was lost on no one.
Dogs: better protectors, loyal, and not in for themselves. Cats: users and selfish. I know which I trust more and want in my house.
UPDATE: A reader responded to Jonah with this table:
| Pros | Cons | |
| 250 lb Dog | protection affection and companionship | lots of clean-up |
| 250 lb Cat | None | Better known as a cougar or mountain lion; a dangerous predator that will kill you ...after tearing your face off |
July 3, 2007
Signs Your Cat is a Terrorist
IMAO: Domesticated Terror: The Feline Threat
* Recently drove to London, but came home without his green, 4-door Mercedes.
* Purrs by making a "ULULULULU!" sound in his throat.* Faces east while catching mice, i.e. preying toward Mecca.
* Leaves poop on top of cat litter, but eagerly buries weapons caches.
* After catching a mouse, he plays with it for several days, then videotapes himself biting its head off.
* Continually denies the dog's right to exist.
* Complains to Amnesty International when you put a leash on him.
* Eats around the bacon-flavored pieces of his Meow Mix.
* Sharpens his claws on an American flag while chanting "Meow Meow Akbar!".
* Poses for Reuters photographers.
* IS a Reuters photographer.
How about: they're a cat?
March 25, 2007
End Liturgical Abuse!
Alive and Young.: New Efforts to End Liturgical Abuses
Here are some sample posters for the campaign:
But this one left me with mixed feelings:
I'm against liturgical abuse, of course, but there's something about shooting cats that I like.....
March 16, 2007
More Evil Cats
Cats Invade Home, Injure Three
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) - Two stray cats got into a house and attacked three people inside, then were euthanized and checked for rabies, authorities said.The cats entered Melissa Breva's house through an open front door on Monday, and attacked two women visitors and a boy, authorities said.
"I thought I had seen it all, but I have never seen anything like this," Chief of Police Martin Gutschenritter said.
Animal control officer John Pettit responded to a call for help, Gutschenritter said.
One woman was scratched and bitten on her legs; the other woman was bitten on her right calf, authorities said.
After talking to them, Pettit went to his truck for snares, then heard screaming from inside the house.
"When he ran back, he saw a young male with blood over his face," Gutschenritter said. "He was bitten on his forehead, nose, left ear and right cheek."
Hat Tip: The Corner
March 11, 2007
More proof cats are evil
'Berserk' house cat sends owner to hospital - CNN.com
A house cat attacked its owner, sending her to the hospital by ambulance with more than 20 bite wounds.The cat, a black and white domestic male, went on the rampage Wednesday when a neighbor showed up at the door with a different cat, mistakenly thinking it belonged to the woman.
"She went to the door, and her cat went berserk," Jeff Nevins, assistant fire chief for Wood River Fire and Rescue, told the Idaho Mountain Express.
The woman in her 60s was taken to St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center with what Nevins described as "pretty serious puncture wounds." Neither the hospital nor the fire department would provide any details to The Associated Press on Saturday, or say whether she has been released.
"I think the owner said she was going to take it to the shelter because that's not the first time she's been attacked," Nevins said.
A dog wouldn't have done that.
March 1, 2007
Coincidence? I think not.
February 22, 2007
This is so true...
February 7, 2007
Evil Defined
The following things are evil:
- The New York Yankees
- The New York Mets
- The Dallas Cowboys
- The New York Football Giants
- The Washington Redskins
- Cats
- The designated hitter rule
- Aluminum Bats
- Spandex
- Rectal exams at the doctor's office
- Rectal Exams not at the doctor's office
- The government cover-up of alien bodies at Area 52 (Area 51 is just a decoy) (More Newsradio sounds)
On these there can be no debate.
January 22, 2007
A cold one for man's best friend
After a long day hunting, there's nothing like wrapping your paw around a cold bottle of beer.So Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the southern Dutch town of Zelhem, created a beer for her Weimaraners made from beef extract and malt.
"Once a year we go to Austria to hunt with our dogs, and at the end of the day we sit on the veranda and drink a beer. So we thought, my dog also has earned it," she said.
Berenden consigned a local brewery to make and bottle the nonalcoholic beer, branded as Kwispelbier. It was introduced to the market last week and advertised as "a beer for your best friend."
Notice no one makes beer for cats; they don't deserve it.
December 22, 2006
Google is fallible
I just googled "food source delaware" while looking for an address and the fourth result was for Forgotten Cats of Delaware.
Shows that not even Google is perfect.
Cat meat is too stringy to be a decent food source.
December 19, 2006
2 effective Methods for bathing a CAT
best of craigslist : 2 effective Methods on bathing a CAT.
I like the first method myself. Maybe Jeff the Baptist and the lovely Miss Anonymous Opinion can use one of these some time and let us know how they work.
First Method1. Thoroughly clean the toilet.
2. Add the required amount of shampoo to the toilet water, and have both lids lifted.
3. Obtain the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.
4. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids (you may need to stand on the lid so that he cannot escape).
CAUTION: Do not get any part of your body too close to the edge, as his paws will be reaching out for any
purchase they can find.
5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a 'power wash and rinse' which I have found to be quite effective.
6. Have someone open the door to the outside and ensure that there are no people between the toilet and the outside door.
7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids.
8. The now-clean cat will rocket out of the toilet, and run outside where he will dry himself.
________________________________________________________________________________Second Method
1. Know that although the kitty cat has the advantage of quickness and lack of concern for human life, you have the advantage of strength. Capitalize on that advantage by selecting the battlefield. Don't try to bathe him in an open area where he can force you to chase him. Pick a very small bathroom. If your bathroom is more than four feet square, we recommend that you get in the tub with the cat and close the sliding-glass doors as if you were about to take a shower. (A simple shower curtain will not do. A berserk cat can shred a three-ply rubber shower curtain quicker than a politician can shift positions.)
2. Know that a cat has claws and will not hesitate to remove all the skin from your body. Your advantage here is that you are smart and know how to dress to protect yourself. We recommend canvas overalls tucked into high-top construction boots, a pair of steel-mesh gloves, an army helmet, a hockey face-mask, and a long-sleeved flak jacket.
3. Use the element of surprise. Pick up your cat nonchalantly, as if to simply carry him to his supper dish. (Cats will not usually notice your strange attire. They have little or no interest in fashion as a rule.)
4. Once you are inside the bathroom, speed is essential to survival. In a single liquid motion, shut the bathroom door, step into the tub enclosure, slide the glass door shut, dip the cat in the water and squirt him with shampoo. You have now begun one of the wildest 45 seconds of your life.
5. Cats have no handles. Add the fact that he now has soapy fur, and the problem is radically compounded. Do not expect to hold on to him for more than two or three seconds at a time. When you have him, however, you must remember to give him another squirt of shampoo and rub like crazy. He'll then spring free and fall back into the water, thereby rinsing himself off. (The national record for cats is three latherings, so don't expect too much.)
6. Next, the cat must be dried. Novice cat bathers always assume this part will be the most difficult, for humans generally are worn out at this point and the cat is just getting really determined. In fact, the drying is simple compared with what you have just been through. That's because by now the cat is semi-permanently affixed to your right leg.
7. You simply pop the drain plug with your foot, reach for your towel and wait. (Occasionally, however, the cat will end up clinging to the top of your army helmet. If this happens, the best thing you can do is to shake him loose and to encourage him toward your leg.) After all the water is drained from the tub, it is a simple matter to just reach down and dry the cat.
In a few days the cat will relax enough to be removed from your leg. He will usually have nothing to say for about three weeks and will spend a lot of time sitting with his back to you. He might even become psychoceramic and develop the fixed stare of a plaster figurine.
You will be tempted to assume he is angry. This isn't usually the case. As a rule he is simply plotting ways to get through your defenses and injure you for life the next time you decide to give him a bath. But at least now he smells a lot better.