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Friday Morning Open Thread: Magnificent Bast*rd

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By which I mean the cat, who is not Cole’s Steve, but commentor Smut Clyde‘s NZ companion:

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If I were more tech-clever, I could flip those shots so’s they would appear in the proper orientation (upside down) but probably it’s just as well I can’t. That does not look like a cat who suffers fools gladly.
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Apart from whimsey, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up another week?

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  3. 3.

    Betty Cracker

    Impressive beards on both man and beast!

    PS: Dog bless you for running pet photos during this rather trying political season, Anne Laurie. And don’t let the palavering purveyors of pedantry get you down!

  4. 4.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    The Daily Show has put up a Trump Nickname Generator so you can have your very own Trump Nickname, you know like Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary, Goofy Elizabeth Warren… Mine’s “Female Bill”.

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    That is indeed a magnificent-looking cat.

    Speaking of this rather trying political season, Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir really doesn’t hold back when he inserts politics into his movie reviews:

    Still, I can’t resist making this point, although it may not directly relate to why “Money Monster” is dreadful: Adam McKay, the comedy director who made “The Big Short,” is a genuine left-winger and a Bernie Sanders supporter; Clooney and Foster and Roberts belong to the core Democratic Party cadre in Hollywood that has funded Hillary Clinton’s career for many years.

    (Jodie Foster directed Money Monster, which stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts.)
    This is just one reason I don’t rate O’Hehir as a movie critic, either.

  8. 8.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I don’t need to. I’ve been the karsty old bastard for a long time.

    @Betty Cracker: Speaking of pedantry, this kind of shit drives me nuts:

    The sailors were on two small armed vessels, known as riverine command boats, on a 300-mile journey from Kuwait to Bahrain, where the navy’s 5th Fleet is located. The incident, while brief, raised tensions between the US and Iran because of images Iran published of the soldiers kneeling with their hands on their heads. It caused political uproar at home,

    The terms are NOT interchangeable. Just ask a Marine.

  9. 9.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: We used to have the Navy Supply Corps School here. A few years ago I was in a coffee shop and a Navy officer came in in his dress whites and the girl behind the counter said “I love a soldier in uniform”!

  10. 10.

    sm*t cl*de

    Mrs Spat thanks you for the recognition.
    Her ancestry is uncertain, for she is a refuge rescue cat, from a feral background, but I suspect that there is some Maine Coon or Scandiweegie Forest Cat there.

  15. 15.

    sm*t cl*de

    @raven:

    the assault on Green Island in WW2!

    My father never spoke of where in the Pacific he went during the regrettable Japan-related unpleasantness. As was the custom of the time.

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: It doesn’t bother me from the generally ignorant public, but from a news organization? Really? Edit much? Not like they had never done any stories on military matters before.

  22. 22.

    satby

    Good morning rikyrah! And to the rest of the morning crew, except Amir and sm*t cl*de, for whom I guess it’s evening.

  23. 23.

    Truegster

    That cat should have a Dos Equis beer in its paw, especially in the last picture. It is one of the most magnificent cats I have seen on the internet, which is an astronomical number of cats to be magnificent of.

  24. 24.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: face it, news organizations don’t feel the need for accuracy or fact checking anymore, and distinctions between branches of service are too arcane for them to worry their beautiful minds about. Not when another story about Drumph or the Kardashians is waiting to be written.

  26. 26.

    burnspbesq

    I guess i should circle back and find the instructions for sending in photos of Little Miss Trouble

  32. 32.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: The Angels really could use him, good thing he showed up at the ballpark.

    ETA: The Angels still lost.

  33. 33.

    Mustang Bobby

    I got “Wears Spanx Under Jeans Bobby” Okay, busted.

    That is one magnificent cat. I’d love to have one of those, but 1) landlord doesn’t allow pets without a $500 rider to the security deposit and 2) I have furniture that screams “SCRATCHING POST” even if had real scratching posts.

  34. 34.

    Tom

    Oh, those pictures make me miss our Maine Coon! He was so sweet and cuddly.

    Anyway, getting ready to take a trip this weekend for our 25th wedding anniversary. However, since I’m a control freak plus I was fighting a cold/flu/creeping crud thing earlier in the week, I’m stressed out and short on sleep.

    But as I knock items off my task list, my mood seems to be improving. With luck, by the time we hit the road I’ll be fine.

  35. 35.

    Schlemazel Khan

    @Betty Cracker:
    You mean us nattering nabobs of negativism? This effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

  37. 37.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Swept ’em. Like a kitchen floor. The Cards are feast or famine this year. Against the Cubs and Pirates they can’t even field a grounder cleanly but against the Angels or Phillies or Braves they are the unstoppable force. I think they have “deer in headlights” syndrome. They know they aren’t winning the division this year.

  38. 38.

    Immanentize

    Mrs. Spat (the lovely cat) should debate Donald Trump.
    A hiss and scratch and some side eye, ‘natch,
    Would make that Vulgarian jump —
    And give Hill’s polls a bump

    (I’m just testing the whimsy generator)

    My generated insult?: Communist Spy Immanentize.

  39. 39.

    Baud

    OT

    Over the past decade, legislators in several states have sought to expand or reduce the number of justices on their highest courts. In some cases, they admit their intent to tilt the ideological balance.

    All the examples given are in GOP states. But you knew that.

  42. 42.

    Schlemazel Khan

    @sm*t cl*de:
    I have a couple of uncles who visited various Pacific islands in the early 40’s and one who was a Navel aviator. The globe & anchor guys were always sullen & angry but I assumed that was a family trait. It was not until they were in their 80s that one mentioned his time on Sunny Peleliu and told me a couple of stories about his time there (I had to look the place up as I had I never heard of the place) and the other told a “funny” story about having pieces of a Japanese Soldier raining down on while they ate lunch on Iwo Jima. I can imagine there was a reason more than genetics for their behavior

  43. 43.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Schlemazel Khan: My dad told me that when the new sailors would arrive on the ship some of the old chiefs would offer to get them coffee, and then stir it with their dentures.

  44. 44.

    WereBear

    @Schlemazel Khan: I am currently watching 14 Diaries of the Great War, which I think is marvelously done, and they include some contemporary footage of soldiers in mental hospitals suffering from “shell shock.”

    And you can see why it was called that, because these people would go through jerking motions as though they were being continually zapped with electricity. Their nerves were literally shorting out in front of the camera.

    I suspect survival from a period of warfare requires much more than simply not dying.

  45. 45.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
    by Eugene B. Sledge,

    In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed “one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war.” John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as “one of the most arresting documents in war literature.” And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, “The Good War.” What has made E.B. Sledge’s memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion.

  47. 47.

    Iowa Old Lady

    Bowlegged Dorothy. Or, if you prefer, Namby Pamby Iowa Old Lady.

    So then I entered “Donald” and got “Favorite SNL Character is Rob Schneider Donald”

  49. 49.

    Schlemazel Khan

    @WereBear:
    I’m not sure some of those guys actually survived even if they lived through it. I was doing some volunteer work as a teen at the County “poor farm” a retirement home for indigent oldsters. They house a lot of guys that were called ‘winos’ in those days & I got to know some of them. Every one of them was a combat veteran. It was a problem ignored by the government and society at a time when alcoholism was still considered a moral failing.

    I wonder if the DoD has ever looked into why some guys could go through combat then come back and integrate (while I assume still dealing with the issues) into society while others never come back. The derelict vet was kind of a meme about Viet Nam vets but some percentage of WWI & II vets had the same results they were just ignored. We need to stop making new combat vets until they figure this out.

  50. 50.

    Schlemazel Khan

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    I read that book 15-20 years ago, a few years after that uncle died. I had read a bunch of books about WWII but this was the first I had read of the actual on the ground experience of a combat infantryman. It is a different picture. Sledge relates a story that mirrors one the uncle told, a horror story about trying to entrench on Peleliu that I can’t get out of my head, I can’t imagine having had to live the experience.

  52. 52.

    danielx

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    Some, like my father, did re-integrate, but were never free of aftereffects. After spending two years on Arawe, Bougainville, New Guinea and the Phillipines, for the rest of his life he hated loud noises, had nightmares and was a functioning alcoholic. Also hated Spam – on New Guinea, he and his cohorts were sick of Spam anyway, and one fine day the Japanese dropped an artillery shell into a nearby supply dump. Eviscerated cans of Spam flying everywhere, and in the tropics the contents started rotting in about five minutes. Rotten Spam was evidently considered a delicacy by the local rat population, which tripled in size…mom once brought home some Spam from the grocery for some reason and I thought he was going to stroke out right there on the spot.

  54. 54.

    raven

    @danielx: Many did, my dad got “late onset PTSD” as he aged.

    eta And I don’t think my cousin, who was a Marine in the “Hill Fights” has had a good night sleep in 50 years.

  55. 55.

    bemused

    @WereBear:

    I read up on your RJ and we have a supervisor kitty too. She loves to intently watch us fixing whatever, often too close inches away while her litter mate loses interest. However she doesn’t fit the beta cat profile. She is shy and very slow to warm up to new people or dogs that enter our home, suspicious of unusual noises and so on. Sometimes we speculate that she supervises to make sure that what is new in her world isn’t threatening.

  59. 59.

    danielx

    @WereBear:

    Our late and greatly missed best boy Greg (don’t ask) was an Oriental Shorthair and hence a natural supervisor. Everything had to be supervised, right down to down to making sure his humans brushed their teeth correctly. Supervision of other cats like CeeCee and Eric consisted of making sure they knew their place, which was below him in the feline hierarchy. As far as CeeCee was concerned, he and Eric could fuss all they wanted about who was the boss cat as long as they remembered who the real alpha cat was. If not, she reminded them. Forcefully.

  67. 67.

    Miss Bianca

    “Little Miss Bianca” just doesn’t seem…I dunno…demeaning enough. I was expecting better (worse?) from den Drumpf generator.

  68. 68.

    J R in WV

    @raven:

    Lookin’ at that death grip that strong guy has on the cargo net! I’ve been over the side on a cargo net too, and you do hold on tight.

    FIL’s destroyer escort, the Menges started out as a Coast Guard vessel, but of course wound up doing convoy duty in the North Atlantic, as well as U-boat hunting in the Med. Eventually the Menges was torpedoed in the Med, taking heavy damage aft. She was towed to NY where another DE, also wrecked by a torpedo, was cut in half and the two welded together, into a restored Menges, and went hunting U-boats in the North Atlantic.

    FIL was the ship’s engineer, a Lt Commander at discharge. They did quite a job keeping that little ship from sinking after having the ass blown off.

    http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/menges.asp

    The pictures are at the bottom, interesting.

  69. 69.

    J R in WV

    If you press the button again, you get a new insult. After a while I got “Not Good at Computers J” which was really funny, as systems analysis, design, and development was my career, at which I was pretty good.

  71. 71.

    The Lodger

    @opiejeanne: Mine is Can’t Drive Stick Lodger.
    Using my real name, the adjective is Despicable. I wasn’t thrilled, but it Gru on me.

  72. 72.

    The Golux

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    When I put in “Asshole”, it came back with “Accident Prone Asshole”.

    I also tried these:
    Sicko Donald Trump
    Dorky Donald Drumpf
    Gay But Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That Sarah Palin
    Maniac Caribou Barbie
    Got Lost At Sea Dick Cheney

    Mine came out as “Annoying On Snapchat The Golux”.

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