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Wild Kitteh eats your face.
“FORT LUDLOW, Wash. – A Washington state homeowner says he left his front door open for his own cats. He wasn’t expecting a 35-pound (16-kilogram) bobcat to walk in, but that’s what happened.
The Port Ludlow resident told animal control officers he watched the wild cat jump over a couch, climb over a big screen TV and then jump up to a loft, where it made itself at home.
Washington Fish and Wildlife Officer Win Miller says the bobcat apparently felt safe upstairs.
With the help of a tranquilizer gun, animal control officers were able to secure the cat and remove it from the home last weekend.
Fish and Wildlife says the bobcat wasn’t harmed and was released back into the wild about six miles (10 kilometres) from the home. One of the homeowner’s pet cats was briefly scared away, but “Boo Boo” made it home safely Tuesday.”
I think of the crazy things I do for my cats and hope that it does not come to something like this.
News from Iraq is coming in fits and spurts. It requires something of this magnitude to break into the press services headlines. This from the CBC:
“Gunmen wearing Iraqi military uniforms raided homes in a Sunni village south of Baghdad, killing at least 24 people in execution-style attacks, officials said Saturday.
An army official said many of the victims, who included five women, were brutalized “beyond recognition.”
At least seven people were found alive, bound with handcuffs, said Baghdad’s security spokesman, Maj.-Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi.”
The violence, of course, is sectarian in nature.
“Many of the dead were members of local Sahwa, or Awakening Councils — one of several names for the Sunni fighters who changed the course of the war when they revolted against al-Qaeda in Iraq and joined the Americans in late 2006 and 2007, officials said. The fighters are also known as Sons of Iraq.”
So we have people who are the American’s allies being slaughtered. More interestingly the article goes and says:
“But the question of what to do with these nearly 100,000 people in the long term remains. The U.S. handed over control last year of the Awakening Councils to Iraq, which pays their roughly $300 monthly salaries.
The violence comes as Iraq’s major political blocs scramble to get enough parliamentary support to form a government after results from the March 7 election gave no single group enough seats to govern alone.”
No Laws, No Morals, No Accountability, NO PROBLEM!
The Iraqi government is paying people some $300 dollars a month to serve as an armed paramilitary presence in Iraq. What are they thinking exactly? Let us take the worst ideas from the US, yes I’m looking at you Blackwater and other mercenary groups, and implement them as civil policy. Nothing can go wrong there, especially when, as the article says, there is extra political turmoil because of the recent elections.
Fighting a fire with gasoline comes to mind.
Why yes, yes they can. Someone (Why Oh why Stella?) went and designed a high-heeled version of the sandal and it retails for $625 dollars.
“Designer Stella McCartney‘s new shoe features a Birkenstock-esque buckled strap and the signature comfortable cork sole.
But unlike the functional sandal, which retails for around $70, this shoe has a spindly 5-inch heel – and costs a whopping $625.”
“The original Birkenstocks provide an incredible amount of foot support in four different places, according to the companys’ Web site. It’s unclear how much support the stilettos will offer.”
You don’t say.
I’ll be sticking with my comfy Birks, thank you very much. I’m just getting used to the toe-thong in my most recent pair. :)
Footwear, when necessary, should be comfortable.
Just in case you forgot how to be normal the wonderful people at howcast.com have put together this little gem. If you have not book marked Sociological Images, I suggest you do so now.
“So, the advice, as I mentioned, is all about trying to hide the shape of her actual body and make it appear to be more hourglass. To “transform it into an hourglass,” they say:
“slim your hips and thighs”
“draw attention to the upper part of your body”
“balance your figure” with shoulder pads
“a roomy top will de-emphasize your bottom”
“offset your hips”
“avoid side pockets, they add bulk where you least need it”
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where the fashion industry encouraged us to “emphasize” our differences from one another, instead of trying to make us all look the same. If you were pear-shaped, for example, the advice would be all about highlighting that awesome booty and tiny waist and shoulders. Work that pear-shape!”
Work that pear shape indeed! This video and others (there is a whole list of how to perform to gendered expectations) like it are endemic of the hoops we jump through trying to perform gender roles and societal expectations.
This area is not my forte, but it is Intransigentia’s. I’m sure she will have something to add to this little piece of hetronormative wisdom.
I never write posts during the week, but I saw this and had to get it up it is Robert Fowler’s speech to the Canada 150 conference. What he says is what most people want to have happen in the middle east; at least until politics happens
Robert Fowler’s speech to the Canada 150 conference.
Religion, the stupidity mill that keeps grinding out the awesome. Stolen from the CC.
Oh hey, and for extra churchy-fail Thunderfoot examines the Catholic Church for the evil entity that it is.
Wow, you can now watch 3D TV in Canada!
Also known as, you can now watch the crappy commercials and pap they pass off as content with an extra dimension.
The problem is that 3D crap is just as unappealing as the regular 2D crap.
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