Krosp held up a paw. “I’m the Emperor of all cats. Think about it. Cats can go anywhere. They’re invisible. Nobody looks at them twice. Imagine if you could order them around. If you could use them as spies, messengers, saboteurs. Well, you tell me what to have them do, and I can give them their orders.”
Agatha nodded, impressed, then she saw Krosp’s slumped shoulders. “It didn’t work,” she guessed.
“Oh, it worked perfectly. I’m the highest-ranking cat there is. They all listen to me.”
“Then why—?”
Krosp whirled, his fur a-bristle, “Because they’re cats! They’re animals! They can’t grasp complex concepts! Their attention span can be measured in microseconds! Even if I can get them to understand what I want, they’re only under my command until they fall asleep, or see something move, or blink! It was a moronic idea!” He collapsed into a small, dejected shape on the bed. “Sometimes I think I was supposed to be killed because I was too embarrassing to live.”
I would like to see the ABC report on Trump incorrectly using the term "blow jobs" when there are obviously many other sexual acts women use to climb the political ladder.
Srsly. The same "fact-checkers" that said "Harris won't be writing love letters to dictators" was an exaggeration should be jumping right on that one, as well.
My oldest was also a member of The Old Guard. He served in the Caisson Platoon where he was humbled by the opportunity to restore a number of the caissons that carry the honored dead to their resting place, and the casket that is used to transport cremated remains.
His favorite work assignment in his time there was the day they needed help in the horse barn - it smelled like home to a farm boy who'd spent the previous year in Iraq. His most solemn duty in that time was placing flags upon the graves to observe Memorial Day and patrolling the cemetery to assure that none were touching the ground.
He was still in his twenties then, and even goofier than he is now (which is pretty damn goofy) but unlike others, he was capable of maintaining a bit of decorum and respect for others.
There is no reason -- ever -- for Ms harris to put a Republican on her cabinet. They don't play nice. They willfully obstruct Democratic proposals. And they would never put a Dem in the cabinet if Trump (God forbid) should win.
It's just example number umpty-billion of how Dems are always expected to be the ones to "reach across the aisle" and compromise, but somehow Republicans are *never* expected to reciprocate when they're in power.
My 8yo put her baby blanket inside on of the little room-like things on the cat tree. I've caught both girl cats snuggled up on it and I swear the younger one, Carra, slept on it nearly all day yesterday. (I think daughter is Carra's special hooman)
Secretary of Agriculture is important because of global warming, but to fix that we gotta rescue our polity from fascist vote suppression, first. And Merrick Garland sure as hell ain't gonna do it.
Have a nice Politico long-form on a post-Garland, Harris administration Justice Department.
So much speculation, so MANY possible Attorneys General! I like Vanita Gupta, myself, an aggressive civil rights lawyer would really hit the spot, democracy-wise. But there's also a lot to be said about one of the several politically-confident Governors with state AG on their resume.
By all means, READ THIS. It's a real nice times story, if your idea of nice times includes a side dish of vengeance. Mine sure does.
DJT at $19.55. Is that good? It was just over $20 for a while yesterday. I feel like maybe this stock is both moving in the right direction, albeit slowly, and not doing what a stock is supposed to do. Unless a stock is supposed to lose all of its value, hilariously, before the assholes who own it can cash out.
Our Unitarian church in Sta Barbara has Jefferson's name on one of the windows, along with legitimate Unitarians on all the others. He is getting removed, thankfully, as he was never a member of any congregation of any religion anywhere as he didn't want to be held accountable for not walking the talk.
Re UVA stupidity: ALL the major university in the former slave states have a legacy of slavery! You can either bury your head in the sand like everyone did for two centuries, or you can suck it up and acknowledge it. UGA encountered a bunch of unmarked graves last time they renovated the anthropology building (which is purposefully built next to the old Athens cemetery) and it caused a big reckoning. Now the building has a fat "Memorial to Unknown Enslaved Persons" out front so you kind of HAVE to have a face to face confrontation with the concept that most of the historic buildings on the old campus were built with slave labor.
ikr. This election is probably even less like the old typical than either of the other two with 45 on the republican ticket, and neither of those were what you could call "normal."
About the Charlotte Clymer post on military funeral teams...
When my father-in-law passed away in 2017, I was the only one left in his immediate family to take care of his funeral arrangements. He was an Army veteran who served during the Battle of the Bulge (though he said he never really saw any action). The funeral director (who had been a long-time friend of their family) contacted the Army to provide a team from Fort Meade, MD to perform the traditional military funeral rites.
Those soldiers were young - probably about 19-20 years old, if that. But they were as professional and as respectful as you'd expect from soldiers who had done that solemn task for many years. A trumpeter played Taps near the gravesite, then another played it in return, off in the distance. I was presented the folded US flag from his casket. There were only a few of us there - my sister, a few of his distant relatives, and a few of my own friends. (When you live to be 95 like he did, you sadly outlive so many of your own family and friends.) It was a very dignified and moving service.
As we were leaving the gravesite, one of the young soldiers approached me. "Pardon me, sir," he said. "I was wondering if you'd allow us to refold the flag. We think we could do a better job." Of course, I said. Sadly, in that case, practice makes perfect.
Coming from a military family, I've attended many a funeral for family members and friends who served and earned the right to be buried with honors. But it was the first time I was personally involved with one. It truly is a moving experience.
My ex was in the honor guard for a while. One fallen soldier did not have known family, so my ex brought me the flag. Maybe I'm foolish, but I still keep it as if I can comfort a lonely boy.
I was in the US Air Force during the Vietnam War, but never served in country. However, when I was stationed at a base in California, I was called on to be part of the honor guard for a young man who had been killed in the war. He was from a small town not far from the air base and was to be interred in the local cemetery. This was my first (and only) experience in a military funeral, as was the case with the other airman with me. We did have an experienced officer to help us through our parts with the funeral. We carried the flag-draped casket to the graveside where we removed the flag from the casket, folded it, pretty well actually, and the accompanying officer presented it to the weeping mother. Another honor guard fired a 21-gun salute, and someone played "Taps." It was all very moving, and even though I had no idea who the young man was, I was glad to have been a part of an honorary recognition that occurred way too often back then.
When I think of the crap that DJT pulled to avoid being drafted and the way he uses armed services members, living and dead, to his own selfish aggrandizement, it absolutely infuriates me.
I can usually hold it together during a funeral; I was trained to play taps for memorial services by my private instructor in high school, since the formal burial would be the one that had a loaner band member and the memorial service might not be on the same day as the actual funeral, depending on how things ended up scheduled. (He was a member of the Army Signal Corps Band and he loaned out us students for that purpose all the time. For us it was an active of service.)
But the moment the flag is folded and handed over is the moment I lose it and fall to piece.
Ta, Rebecca. Ta, Martini. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace. Adorable and adored husband Meccalopolis and I are dividing up the chores today; he's taking care of the car and I'm making a start on alleviating the chaos in our vinyl collection, which should be helpful since we just got more.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed family and friends like sweet Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among over seven million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel, especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe.
Cats, getting into trouble, getting out of trouble. It's your hed gif source link: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/kitten-unsticks-self?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
And the meme chat for the day: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/5c57f78f-99fe-4d43-ba24-4f28e44224f1
lol, I knew he'd make it.
I like how cat turns around and assaults the bad desk thing for trying to keep cat from doing very important cat stuff
like
Cats is cats!
When IT said they'd send their best tech, they weren't kitten around.
If they were only a bit more sentient cats would make the greatest spies in the history of espionage.
Meet Krosp I, the Emperor of Cats:
//
Krosp held up a paw. “I’m the Emperor of all cats. Think about it. Cats can go anywhere. They’re invisible. Nobody looks at them twice. Imagine if you could order them around. If you could use them as spies, messengers, saboteurs. Well, you tell me what to have them do, and I can give them their orders.”
Agatha nodded, impressed, then she saw Krosp’s slumped shoulders. “It didn’t work,” she guessed.
“Oh, it worked perfectly. I’m the highest-ranking cat there is. They all listen to me.”
“Then why—?”
Krosp whirled, his fur a-bristle, “Because they’re cats! They’re animals! They can’t grasp complex concepts! Their attention span can be measured in microseconds! Even if I can get them to understand what I want, they’re only under my command until they fall asleep, or see something move, or blink! It was a moronic idea!” He collapsed into a small, dejected shape on the bed. “Sometimes I think I was supposed to be killed because I was too embarrassing to live.”
//
Comic version:
https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040315 and following page
They have humanity fooled, Cat Central has files on each and every single one of us that would make J Edgar blush....
Right? If Farrah had that and opposable thumbs, she'd rule the world.
Cat the Ripper already runs things around here.
Think it was after the mouse.
I always knew cats were liquid.
Science says - you are probably right!
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/answering-the-question-that-won-me-the-ig-nobel-prize-are-cats-liquid
Once again, demonstrating the well-established fact that cats are liquid.
Felines do not recline.
Felines decant themselves into the space.
Peek-a-mew.
Mew mew mew!
*makes finger guns, but with paws*
That kitten is going to be a huge cat!
There will come a day when it gets stuck doing that.
“What is happening?” it may think. “I always fit through here before!”
My standard poodle puppy did that!
She loved to go under the coffee table.
Only after she bonked her head a few times, did she stop doing it.
"What is happening?" indeed!
My husband still remembers the day a similar thing happened to small him.
OMG, That is so SQUEEEE
I love that one, thank you very much.
Kitty Tabs are the best Tabs!
Kitteh heard there was a mouse up there.
I would like to see the ABC report on Trump incorrectly using the term "blow jobs" when there are obviously many other sexual acts women use to climb the political ladder.
Srsly. The same "fact-checkers" that said "Harris won't be writing love letters to dictators" was an exaggeration should be jumping right on that one, as well.
But the people who enjoy making such sexist and misogynist syayements have a poor imagination.
My oldest was also a member of The Old Guard. He served in the Caisson Platoon where he was humbled by the opportunity to restore a number of the caissons that carry the honored dead to their resting place, and the casket that is used to transport cremated remains.
His favorite work assignment in his time there was the day they needed help in the horse barn - it smelled like home to a farm boy who'd spent the previous year in Iraq. His most solemn duty in that time was placing flags upon the graves to observe Memorial Day and patrolling the cemetery to assure that none were touching the ground.
He was still in his twenties then, and even goofier than he is now (which is pretty damn goofy) but unlike others, he was capable of maintaining a bit of decorum and respect for others.
There is no reason -- ever -- for Ms harris to put a Republican on her cabinet. They don't play nice. They willfully obstruct Democratic proposals. And they would never put a Dem in the cabinet if Trump (God forbid) should win.
It's just example number umpty-billion of how Dems are always expected to be the ones to "reach across the aisle" and compromise, but somehow Republicans are *never* expected to reciprocate when they're in power.
I have read that a cat can get through any opening that he can fit his whiskers though. Seems to be the case here.
Nice times!
My 8yo put her baby blanket inside on of the little room-like things on the cat tree. I've caught both girl cats snuggled up on it and I swear the younger one, Carra, slept on it nearly all day yesterday. (I think daughter is Carra's special hooman)
No more Martie link?
Secretary of Agriculture is important because of global warming, but to fix that we gotta rescue our polity from fascist vote suppression, first. And Merrick Garland sure as hell ain't gonna do it.
Have a nice Politico long-form on a post-Garland, Harris administration Justice Department.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/28/kamala-harris-attorney-general-pick-00176544
So much speculation, so MANY possible Attorneys General! I like Vanita Gupta, myself, an aggressive civil rights lawyer would really hit the spot, democracy-wise. But there's also a lot to be said about one of the several politically-confident Governors with state AG on their resume.
By all means, READ THIS. It's a real nice times story, if your idea of nice times includes a side dish of vengeance. Mine sure does.
DJT at $19.55. Is that good? It was just over $20 for a while yesterday. I feel like maybe this stock is both moving in the right direction, albeit slowly, and not doing what a stock is supposed to do. Unless a stock is supposed to lose all of its value, hilariously, before the assholes who own it can cash out.
Our Unitarian church in Sta Barbara has Jefferson's name on one of the windows, along with legitimate Unitarians on all the others. He is getting removed, thankfully, as he was never a member of any congregation of any religion anywhere as he didn't want to be held accountable for not walking the talk.
Unitarians untie!!! ⚛️
Re UVA stupidity: ALL the major university in the former slave states have a legacy of slavery! You can either bury your head in the sand like everyone did for two centuries, or you can suck it up and acknowledge it. UGA encountered a bunch of unmarked graves last time they renovated the anthropology building (which is purposefully built next to the old Athens cemetery) and it caused a big reckoning. Now the building has a fat "Memorial to Unknown Enslaved Persons" out front so you kind of HAVE to have a face to face confrontation with the concept that most of the historic buildings on the old campus were built with slave labor.
TLDR News posted a few days back something titled "3 Reasons Trump Will Best Kamala." And I am not watching it.
He will not Be Best.
ikr. This election is probably even less like the old typical than either of the other two with 45 on the republican ticket, and neither of those were what you could call "normal."
Good morning Wonkette!
I subscribe to The Sun, it's really good.
About the Charlotte Clymer post on military funeral teams...
When my father-in-law passed away in 2017, I was the only one left in his immediate family to take care of his funeral arrangements. He was an Army veteran who served during the Battle of the Bulge (though he said he never really saw any action). The funeral director (who had been a long-time friend of their family) contacted the Army to provide a team from Fort Meade, MD to perform the traditional military funeral rites.
Those soldiers were young - probably about 19-20 years old, if that. But they were as professional and as respectful as you'd expect from soldiers who had done that solemn task for many years. A trumpeter played Taps near the gravesite, then another played it in return, off in the distance. I was presented the folded US flag from his casket. There were only a few of us there - my sister, a few of his distant relatives, and a few of my own friends. (When you live to be 95 like he did, you sadly outlive so many of your own family and friends.) It was a very dignified and moving service.
As we were leaving the gravesite, one of the young soldiers approached me. "Pardon me, sir," he said. "I was wondering if you'd allow us to refold the flag. We think we could do a better job." Of course, I said. Sadly, in that case, practice makes perfect.
Coming from a military family, I've attended many a funeral for family members and friends who served and earned the right to be buried with honors. But it was the first time I was personally involved with one. It truly is a moving experience.
beautiful story thank you.
My ex was in the honor guard for a while. One fallen soldier did not have known family, so my ex brought me the flag. Maybe I'm foolish, but I still keep it as if I can comfort a lonely boy.
I was in the US Air Force during the Vietnam War, but never served in country. However, when I was stationed at a base in California, I was called on to be part of the honor guard for a young man who had been killed in the war. He was from a small town not far from the air base and was to be interred in the local cemetery. This was my first (and only) experience in a military funeral, as was the case with the other airman with me. We did have an experienced officer to help us through our parts with the funeral. We carried the flag-draped casket to the graveside where we removed the flag from the casket, folded it, pretty well actually, and the accompanying officer presented it to the weeping mother. Another honor guard fired a 21-gun salute, and someone played "Taps." It was all very moving, and even though I had no idea who the young man was, I was glad to have been a part of an honorary recognition that occurred way too often back then.
When I think of the crap that DJT pulled to avoid being drafted and the way he uses armed services members, living and dead, to his own selfish aggrandizement, it absolutely infuriates me.
I can usually hold it together during a funeral; I was trained to play taps for memorial services by my private instructor in high school, since the formal burial would be the one that had a loaner band member and the memorial service might not be on the same day as the actual funeral, depending on how things ended up scheduled. (He was a member of the Army Signal Corps Band and he loaned out us students for that purpose all the time. For us it was an active of service.)
But the moment the flag is folded and handed over is the moment I lose it and fall to piece.
I still have both of my parent's flags.
My sister usually loses it when the trumpeter plays Taps. I made sure to stand next to her at the funeral.
Ta, Rebecca. Ta, Martini. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace. Adorable and adored husband Meccalopolis and I are dividing up the chores today; he's taking care of the car and I'm making a start on alleviating the chaos in our vinyl collection, which should be helpful since we just got more.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed family and friends like sweet Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among over seven million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel, especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe.
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛