Friday Cat Blogging Dva
™ [Kevin Drum]
It’s A Tough Job
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
[Editor: Bonus version because Ringo’s Dad doesn’t show up often. Hey, he’s a tom cat, it’s not a complex job.]
November 11, 2005 Comments Off on Friday Cat Blogging Dva
Tin Foil Hat Plot
Via The Modulator [and someone else I can’t remember]¹, you can locate this MIT study: On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets, which evaluates the effectiveness of this commonly mentioned defense against outside control – it may be a government plot!
[1. It was Liz at Blondesense.]
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Class Act
Not all Republicans hate veterans, and some of them are veterans. As this is a day after the Marines’ 230th birthday and Veterans Day, you might want to have a look at one of our local veterans who was a Marine before he joined the Air Force, who has an airport named after him, and who kicked the US government’s butt in court.
Class Act, is Colonel George “Bud” Day’s organization. It is a small group, his law office backed by volunteers from Bob Hope Village, a retirement community for Air Force enlisted widows, but it has done big things.
If you go to the site, click through to find out what all of that stuff over the Colonel’s left pocket is called.
[disclaimer: my Mother also volunteers at the office when her health permits.]
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Veterans Day
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 the guns fell silent. The Great War, The War to End All Wars, was over…for a couple of decades.
The red poppies of Flanders fields became a symbol of that war and the veterans that returned from it. Known as Remembrance Day in much of the world, the poppies will be in evidence. Remembrance Day observances have more in common with the American Memorial Day as day to honor those who have died in war.
First called Armistice Day in the United States, the name was changed to Veterans Day, and its purpose changed to honoring those who are serving, or have served in the military. The change was made to avoid a conflict with the existing Memorial Day observance that goes back to the Civil War era.
A heart felt salute to everyone who managed to survive basic training. We can hope that sooner, rather than later, there will be no need for another generation to put on uniforms.
November 11, 2005 Comments Off on Veterans Day
Friday Cat Blogging
™ [Kevin Drum]
Bird’s Eye View
Get lost, Camera Boy.
[Editor: If you convert the picture to the gray scale that most animals have, you can see why hiding behind grass blades isn’t as silly as we normally think.]
November 11, 2005 Comments Off on Friday Cat Blogging
