Where did the rescue take place? Who is the firefighter? What type of cat is this?
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I don’t know but I’d buy it a big-assed spiked collar to wear.
They’re rioting in Algeria.
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/algeria/articles/20110128.aspx
They’re Rioting Africa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-BI89mb9A
What the hell are you talking about? It’s obviously one hella pissed off Cat, that’s what kind it is…
I must be special, I keep finding myself in strange places.
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2011/01/29/egyptian-protests-saturday-open/riot/#comment-670484
It looks like a Grey Persian kitty.
It’s a photoshop I believe.
@ Calo:
Did you see the message I left you on the OOT? My surgery has been approved! 28 February 2011 I go under the knife…
@ Iron Fist:
I did.
I left you a message on the sekrit thread.
@ Calo:
@ pat:
Well that vid got one hit from me.
@ Iron Fist:
I hope you have a good result!
@ pat:
I think the lesson of history is that the Caliphate will always return.
The Mongols conquered a big chunk of islam, but islam eventually prevailed. The religion will take over whatever government is imposed.
Prebanned wrote:
Nuke Mecca so that nobody can come within 100 miles of it for the next ten thousand years, Islam will does like the bastard animal that it is.
Bagua wrote:
Yep. If that was real the dude would be cut to ribbons. Well at least any exposed flesh.
pat wrote:
Do thay all want the same thing?
الجميع يمارس الجنس مع بعقب!
بعقب! بعقب! بعقب اللعنة!
doriangrey wrote:
The imans would probably just declare that the kaaba was never necessary and allah blew it up on purpose.
Have to quit giving them weapons. Can’t believe the Egyptians have 1000 M1 tanks. We are so stupid.
gulfloafer wrote:
Can I order one of those for Mecca…. To go????
Prebanned wrote:
Think Stuxnet…. What makes you think any of them actually “Work“????
@ gulfloafer:
That’s NOT Tsar Bomba. THIS is Tsar Bomba!
@ Macker:
That’s what I heard too.
@ Macker:
Yeah but my vid is only 39 seconds long and the graphics are much cooler.
@ Bagua:
Checka U e-mail.
Prebanned wrote:
Islam is a malignancy.
Food has arrived!
@ Iron Fist:
What kind of surgery are you having? I saw that you mentioned “bariatric” surgery, but I thought bariatric just referred to a person who was way overweight/obese? When I worked for an ambulance company, we had a bariatric gurney for the patients who were very large…
@ doriangrey:
Too extreme. The Kaaba and such could be turned to dust with a few 2,000 lb bombs. (I’ll deter to the experts here on how many.)
@ chickadee:
Hence, a cancer which requires Radiation Treatment and White Light Therapy™ to excuse from Humanity.
@ doriangrey:
Ahhh.
@ Macker:
Will do.
That’s it?
@ song_and_dance_man:
that guy doesn’t have any exposed flesh except for his face. I’m not saying it’s not photoshopped, just curious what makes you think that it is…
W00t! Just got my tattoo colored in
Looks perty!
@ Macker:
How does one find the English translation for what you’ve written here? You do this a lot and I never know what the hell it says.
@ Prebanned:
Without air superiority those tanks are scrap metal.
Forget dropping a nuke. Hogzilla as a carcass, would be a better and more efficient thing to drop from 8 miles high. And in the weird wild world of the AGWist’s, would not leave a carbon footprint. Everyone would be satisfied, except the Borg.
doriangrey wrote:
Then our successors will have to go after it again.
@ NoThreat2U:
didn’t know you had a tat! Yoo-Hoo! What’s it a picture of and what colors did you get? (Inquiring minds wanna know)
who are these idiots on FNC with geraldo right now? they sound American (accents and mannerisms and all that) and yet they are referring to Eqypt as “our country”. really? then go there.
these idiots are no different from people of Mexican descent who refer to themselves as Mexican rather than Americans in spite of the fact that their families have been Americans for 150 years.
@ savages_girl:
Google Translate is your friend.
doriangrey wrote:
Cute, though! I love that expression.
Prebanned wrote:
I wonder how many of those 1,000 tanks are ready for combat. I’ll bet a bunch of them don’t even run…
@ savages_girl:
Try Google translator. Arabic to English.
I won’t post what I think it says.
@ Iron Fist:
Good luck, man! I’ve heard for many, it’s the fastest with the mostest, for weight loss and all the positive benefits that go with it!
@ Calo:
Which is why I post it in Arabic.
@ savages_girl:
It is girly. lol I have had this seahorse for quite some time now. Got it colored in purple and pink with blue=green kelp around it. Looks nice. Best of all…it was free!!
savages_girl wrote:
It’s easy to spot. For one, if you look at the fur on the cat of it’s right side (left side in the pic) it’s much too long and fluffy and un-wet when considering the rest of the fur.
@ Macker:
@ Calo:
Do I have to copy and paste it to Google Translator? How does it work? How do I do it?
savages_girl wrote:
If the cat is, in fact, a Persian cat, most of them are pretty docile around humans. They were bred to be that way because their long hair needs regular brushing. AFAIK, Persian cats were also bred to be good rat-catchers, and their long hair protects them against rat bites.
@ NoThreat2U:
Awesome on the colors AND being free!
savages_girl wrote:
Frankly dear I don’t…. Oh wait
@ savages_girl:
try this
@ song_and_dance_man:
Hmmmm… still not totally convinced… but there are so many people who are so good with graphics nowadays that it is hard to say anymore.
@ 1389AD:
What does that stand for?
@ savages_girl:
My son’s friend is here for the night. So I fed him and he gave me a free tat job. lol Bartering works!!! lol
BBIAB
song_and_dance_man wrote:
That would depend on where the cat was in the building.
From personal experience, it would be extremely difficult to photoshop something with a “fuzzy” (literally) irregular border like this cat, in any sort of a convincing manner. I think the photo is most likely real. I also think that the cat is frightened and gasping for breath on account of the smoke, rather than angry.
@ Calo:
Oh dear!
Maybe I was better NOT knowing!
macker! Bad boy!
@ savages_girl:
@ Calo:
Good enough for Government Work.
/Jimmy_Carter
doriangrey wrote:
Exactly. The integrated computer stuff that makes it awesome, is also an intentionally designed vulnerability.
Semi-related (Tomcat is germane to Caturday yes?)
Think back to the F-14′s we sold to Iran – they’re not much use without the spare parts to run ‘em.
And, from earlier last year…seems Iran thinks we still owe it an F-14.
Hardware runs on software. They may have the hardware, but we control the software…mostly.
@ Brick:
IF is an Insulin resistant Diabetic.
He is doing the surgery to be able to cut down on the many units of insulin he takes every day. There are many technical articles on the subject that are quite boring so here’s a quick primer,
read here.
savages_girl wrote:
As far as I know.
@ 1389AD:
]I was at one time a rather good free lance graphic artist and could fake a pic with the best of them. I agree that it might be real, but looking at it must say it is fake but accurate.
The fuzzy details are easy to mimic it you know how to do it.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by 1389, The Blogmocracy. The Blogmocracy said: #Caturday Mystery http://goo.gl/fb/HLkj2 #openthread #feline #gato #humor #photograph #technology [...]
We were so obsessed with the fake pic the really funny vid has been overlooked.
Click on the vid in the Entry. It’s pretty funny.
1389AD wrote:
If you google images – fireman rescues cat russia – it’s the second image listed. The DU track puts this pic online fall of 2009. The russia track puts it online prior to Jan of 2006.
Brick wrote:
thanks for clearing that up. I can now rest.
whew
@ Calo:
I have never heard of that. Thanks for posting a link.
Learn something new everyday on this blog…
song_and_dance_man wrote:
no, i seriously LOL’d over that before even reading a single comment. hilarious!
@ Kirly:
Cats are super funny.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Kind of skipped over that one as I saw it on EUR when it was posted.
Hilarious!
We have this cat that lives with us. He always begs me for treats. My wife always says “He doesn’t need treats” but I give them anyway because he begs skillfully. Then the cat curls up beside my wife and won’t give me the time of day.
Prebanned wrote:
the cat knows who is in charge and who is the servant.
That is a Siberian Pallas cat and it’s real:
http://www.pendraig.com/siberians//siberianhistory.php
1389AD wrote:
10,000 years from now, nobody will remember who Mohammad and his followers were.
@ Prebanned:
There is a really funny joke there I’m resisting to type.
Must resist…
Because the only alternative to a taliban controlled islamic state is a dictator.
That’s islamic reality.
It’s islamic
@ Kirly:
I hate you and that cat, too.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Well, look at what he cooks for dinner? No wonder she ignores him.
@ yenta-fada:
I want one of those.
@ Prebanned:
That made me LOL. That is funny!
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Heh heh heh, I bet it has something to do with… Pussy—–cats…
yenta-fada wrote:
From the looks of it it’s the subgenus Siberius Pallas Pissdofficus.
@ Calo:
Kind of puts a new twist on trick or treat.
savages_girl wrote:
He hurt his paw a long time ago and would hold it off the floor while begging for treats. He still does that, I wait for that paw to come off the floor before he gets a treat. He tilts his head back, winks and yawns real big touching his ears together behind his head and going Mmmmmooow.
Prebanned wrote:
LOL
@ song_and_dance_man:
Yes, kitty got more tricks than Prebanned got treats.
@ doriangrey:
That was not on my mind. But this now is.
@ doriangrey:
Sup Doriangrey.
@ Calo:
Or is that vis versa?
@ Kirly:
@ Prebanned:
cute
so, the rioters are looting and robbing and stealing. and they do this as a way of saying they want a country with more freedoms and the rule of law? riiiiight.
Well that sucks. It was only half of the song. Something must be done with the toobage.
Not sure who this Christian Whitton guy is that Geraldo has on, but he’s a moron.
Someone lent me the Keith Richard’s autobiography. Read the first chapter this morning. Probably read a little bit more tonight or tomorrow morning. It’s a pretty big book.
lobo91 wrote:
well, our first mistake is actually leaving geraldo on.
Kirly wrote:
They want islam, which is looting and rioting and stealing and killing.
Well, this is smile-inducing, and, you’ll see, somewhat cat-related…
judith miller is an idiot too. the bbc hasn’t confirmed that mubareks family is in london so she doesn’t know what to think.
damn. the stupid is thick on FNC right now.
Kirly wrote:
I think most of these looters and vandals are just punks looking for any excuse to steal things and break stuff.
not much different than laker or pistons fans rioting after their team wins the NBA title
A couple of amazing contortionists.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Is a person who moved out of California like a deathbed Catholic?
Prebanned wrote:
of course!
Doppelganger wrote:
yep. like the LA Rioters or the katrina fools.
Prebanned wrote:
Are you sure? lol
Doppelganger wrote:
You’re almost always going to see some degree of that in any riot situation, especially in a third world country. Or Detroit.
Poteen wrote:
It’s so nice to know a foreign language. lol
[...] Brick says: If you google images – fireman rescues cat russia – it’s the second image listed. The DU track puts this pic online fall of 2009. The russia track puts it online prior to Jan of 2006. [...]
Kirly wrote:
I loved the people who excused the looters after Katrina by saying they were just trying to get supplies to survive.
Yeah, those plasma TVs were esssential, especially when there was no electricity…
yenta-fada wrote:
Yeah, to scare my dog.
wow. that weiner dude is on FNC right now. i think he has the longest nose i’ve ever seen. it’s quite impressive in a “gee, how odd” way.
savages_girl wrote:
Does it come with an English translation?
lobo91 wrote:
yeah, like that stupid canadian singer… “let them have those things for once”. idiot. if she thinks they should have them, then she can buy them.
Calo wrote:
Actually, this is relevant to my interests. Mrs. Brick was Dx Type 2 after some surgery this past November. The 200+ fasting and 400+ post prandials were the tip-offs. Duh.
Fast fwd to today – 80s-90s fasting and 120-130 post prandials. Actos and metformin levels already cut back once by the Endo, and ckup last week revealed excellent cholesterol and trigs. Said whatever you’re doing keep it up.
Changes were – no white diet (actually a lifestyle change so can’t really call it a diet) and c. 8oz red wine every evening before bed for the polyphenols. She got cleared this week to go back to the gym so we expect the trend to continue – hopefully next endo visit – will further reduce or eliminate meds.
Kirly wrote:
maybe it’s just cuz he’s so incredibly skinny.
@ Kirly:
Ah, yes…the wisdom of Celine Dion…
//
Prebanned wrote:
Think “unintended consequences”.
Kirly wrote:
They are working up to their own version of a night of broken glass.
pat wrote:
Indeed:
@ Bordm:
Wow! I watched that and I still can’t believe it!
lobo91 wrote:
So you are the ‘one’ who watches that show.
lobo91 wrote:
that’s the bimbo!
Kirly wrote:
not a lot of meat on that weiner
@ lobo91:
LOL, very funny lobo
song_and_dance_man wrote:
No, I turned on the TV while I was eating, and it happened to be on FNC. I didn’t feel like getting up to find the remote and change it.
Calo wrote:
Not sure what THAT means, but for posting a song you have my bow tonight at this time.
lobo91 wrote:
Be honest. Leia was last watching FNC and probably hid the remote thinking you might change it.
@ Brick:
IF takes 500 units of Regular insulin a day IIRC. An extremely high amount.
Neither of those meds would even touch his sugars.
However, congrats to Mrs Brick for all of her hard work to keep her A1C in check. Her numbers today look good.
@ Brick:
I think she was, actually. I heard Huckabee’s voice in the other room while I was doing some touchup painting on a model.
Doppelganger wrote:
bwaaaaaaaaaahahahaha! nope!
@ Calo:
Holy Smokes! I’m at 100 units of Lantus at bedtime, and anywhere between 7 to 15 units of NovoLog per meal in the daytime.
IF, I can understand why you made the decision you did.
@ Bagua:
Dust? Too easy to stick it back together with 100 gallons of Krazy Glue; and you know they’d try.
Plasma, baby, plasma!
Doppelganger wrote:
Not like it was a real meaty beefy big and bouncy barny frank
Well, I guess there’s nothing to worry about.
Judith Miller says it’s “impossible” for the Muslim Brotherhood to take over in Egypt.
//
Brick wrote:
The original picture link on the Russian Livejournal site no longer works. If, indeed, the rescue took place in Russia, then the cat probably is a Siberian cat.
lobo91 wrote:
she’s so stupid she actually said that the BBC hasn’t confirmed that mubareks family is in london so she doesn’t “know what to think”. weapons grade stupid.
lobo91 wrote:
I have no response since Brick took Thor to the mat and delivered good thunder.
“They cut off the internet. Is this a preview of the way wars will be waged in the future?”
Yes, Geraldo. Google the term “information operations” sometime…
Prebanned wrote:
Awwww, cute… <3
*GAG* I really did just watch a Miley Cyrus movie just to see my favorite spot on earth.
@ lobo91:
The same damn way we did it BEFORE the Internet. HUMINT!
@ Macker:
My Little Girl cat gets 1 unit of Lantus after breakfast every day… yep, I’ve got a diabetic kitty… she’s really good about letting me give her the shot everyday… for about a year I had to give her shots twice a day, but since her last blood testing, she is down to once a day.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
My view is to put on the table a viable option.
Were we to acknowledge Islam as the enemy ideology, and threaten to destroy its symbols, we wouldn’t need nor resort to anything as horrific as a nuclear strike.
I do wonder if it will come to that.
lobo91 wrote:
Celine Dion comes from Quebec. They don’t really think of themselves as Canadian, so why should I accord her that honour?
On History Channel they’re talking about the New Madrid fault.
I blogged about that not too long ago… HERE
1389AD–
Tineye comes up with 116 matches for that image.
http://www.tineye.com/search/c3e32b8fb5560933432b6d8771dd92fac4efacfe/
@ savages_girl:
I think my old lady cat is diabetic….that has to be why her nasty paw never heals.
@ lobo91:
Funny how we seemed to be able to operate without mimeographs and teletape.
It’s a brave new world.
/
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
ah yes, the stupid queeber.
haha, that was a typo but i found it so funny i decided to leave it.
@ Brick:
No white diet? Does that mean no white sugar?
My wife is type 2 and thus my interest.
@ NoThreat2U:
If it’s LA I’m going to be sorely disappointed.
@ Bagua:
IMHO, anybody who actually lives in Mecca has to be batshit crazy for doing so, so if they were vaporized in a nuclear strike, we’d actually be doing them a favor. I know it’s a tough sell….
NoThreat2U wrote:
Miley Cyrus? who’s that?
@ song_and_dance_man:
There are still some beautiful areas around LA.
Calo wrote:
Thanks.
And again to IF, good luck to you – we’re ALL pulling for you @ the Brick abode.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Nope. Tybee Island GA.
@ citizen_q:
Silly Gay Virus’Billy Ray Cyrus’ daughter. lol@ NoThreat2U:
You should have her tested…
@ savages_girl:
I can pretty much tell she is….weight loss but healthy appetite…wound that wont heal. The vet didn’t test her but he suspects it too.
@ NoThreat2U:
Thanks! We don’t have kids to help up keep-up with these things.
Sure is quiet in here for a Saturday night. Yinz all going to bed to go to church tomorrow??? lol
@ citizen_q:
She’s Hannah Montana too on Disney. They were filming that movie when I was down there and that is why I watched it.
Bagua wrote:
It appears from all indications that Iran will get what they want. Nukes. Forget the reports, they are full steam ahead. These Baal loving wackos are intent on bringing Islam/Iran into the ‘fraternity’ of nuke bearing states. When they have them and know they are able and ready, hell breaking loose will be only some term we used in the past.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
OTOH, Perhaps GOD might send a vision to any secret Christians and Jews living in Mecca to get out of Dodge, prior to said strike.
NoThreat2U wrote:
The AFR worshiped that girl…until his Star Trek Freakette illegally moved in with us.
@ NoThreat2U:
Ah 2+2=4
NoThreat2U wrote:
Watching a movie.
@ Macker:
That girl was just voted one of the worst role models. It was something I glanced at on Comcast homepage. Personally, her relationship with her father creeps me out a bit.
@ lobo91:
Anything good?
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Bad form to reply to myself, but there is another way. March into Mecca, and occupy it. Forever. Evict all the residents, and turn it into a ghost town, other than barracks for the occupying troops. Surround it with a minefield a mile deep, and make it so the only way in is via helicopter. Dig a tunnel under the kaaba, and plant a 15 megaton nuclear device there that can be fired at the push of a button in the Oval Office.
Then allow the muzzies to make their hajj there…for a price. “Yes, Achmed, you can make your hajj. $1000, cash on the barrel head, and you get your hour in the sacred precincts of the kaaba, our kaaba. It’s U.S. territory, Achmed, and we own it, and we own your ass, Achmed, and never forget it! Because if you forget it, you know whose finger is on the button, Achmed, and it ain’t yours, is it?”
@ NoThreat2U:
could also be her thyroid… I would have a few blood tests done. Sounds like she might need meds…
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Perhaps we should make you an Honorary American!
NoThreat2U wrote:
Red. Just started.
@ savages_girl:
The main reason we are leaning toward diabetes is because her paw will not heal. It has been getting this crusty infection for two years now. I take her in to get it cleaned, they give her antibiotics…they have even lasered a layer of tissue off of it. It still won’t heal. She is pushing 17 and I don’t really want her put under again. They have considered cutting the paw off, but I am not comfortable with that, especially at her age.
@ lobo91:
Is that the newer movie with John Malkovich in it?
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Wrath of G-d had a fine post about Mecca back when. It had to do with the ‘plight’ of the pallies and if everyone was really concerned about a right of return, then maybe those who want it should look at the history of Mecca.
@ Macker:
Thanks, Macker!
I’m a proud Canadian, but I know Canada simply isn’t capable of doing that sort of thing with the present state of our military, and our political culture.
Taking Mecca probably would not be tough, but holding it against all attempts to retake it would be.
Only the U.S.A. has the wherewithal to do such an audacious feat, and under the present Administration, they sure don’t have the political will for it.
citizen_q wrote:
I’m not a doc so this is strictly anecdotal….
Yes. No white sugar, or sucrose derivatives. No white breads, or anything containing enriched white flour including PASTAS!
Also, no potatoes, or potato derivatives. 
I call it the caveman diet. If it wasn’t accessible to a cave-man to eat, it doesn’t go in the mouth. Thus..no ding-dongs, ho-hos, Hershey bars, Big Macs, KFC Double-Stackers, etc.
And, Splenda in place of sugar.
We also eat lots of fresh/cooked veggies – lots of meat
chicken, turkey, 85/15 beef. sugar free puddings, nuts, and jellos for snacks.
Our food bill has gone up a bit, and I hate to admit it, I do feel better eating the same stuff Mrs. Brick eats – and it’s good moral support.
Our biggest help is regularly using her meter and keeping a record of what she ate. I did a quick Calc sheet on Open Office we input her scores into and can correlate scores with food ate that day, and when.
The glass of red wine each day seems to be supported here. And there were two articles I found both released before Thanksgiving this past year. Try googling red wine diabetes.
Seems to be working for us, although YMMV. Either way good luck and stay on top of it!
@ NoThreat2U:
Wow, 17! That’s an old kitty!
My cats never seem to make it past 16 years old… don’t know why…
NoThreat2U wrote:
Yup…and Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren…
pat wrote:
Not a single mention of the secessionist conflict between the Algerian government and the indigenous Kabyle Berbers…
Pff.
@ lobo91:
Just finished.
OK flik.
@ savages_girl:
Yeah she is an old spoiled lady. Now I just cater to her…fresh fish or chicken breast to eat. I cook more for her than I do for myself. lol lol The vet said to just make her comfy in her old age. Whatever Mamma Cat wants, Mamma Cat gets
@ lobo91:
I’ve been wanting to see that. I love Bruce Willis. I also wanna see The Expendables.
@ NoThreat2U:
The Expendables was okay.
Lots of explosions…
@ Brick:
Can you have brown rice pasta? It is supposed to be OK for diabetics and has a low glycemic index (92)…
lobo91 wrote:
That dude should replace Kevin Bacon in the 6 degrees game.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
That was a good read, PD.
savages_girl wrote:
Dunno? Brown rice pasta. Never heard of such an animal but will have to track one down now. Thanks.
@ Calo:
I like Malkovich’s “house.”
The stuffed dog with the tinfoil hat is a nice touch…
@ Brick:
yeah, check it out. i eat it…
savages_girl wrote:
good stuff? Taste Ok?
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Listen. The only thing cat about that picture is the head. the rest of it is a dog.