have a great Sunday
Noodle has broken elbow so...
Noodle and crew
Meet our friend Arnold!
Have a super Sunday!
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We are joining The Cat on My Head blog hop!
I'm a liberal
I'm not proud of it or ashamed of it
But I want to take this opportunity to thank
Mr. Mark Burnette
and thank you America...
For giving us Donald Trump back!
In this wonderfully petty, irresponsible, selfish country where we live...
Sanctimonious, irresponsible people have given us such wonderful gifts such as
the Kardashians,
the real housewives of ...wherever
I mean without your help there would have been no Apprentice
which was a tremendous help in Donald Trumps
popularity,
You are to be congratulated for helping to turn politics and democracy into a side show
So, thank you!
I really don't think we could have gotten here without people like, you
But hey...what do I know, I'm just a cat....
Have a super Sunday
Noodle and crew
A few things for the weekend...
Spy Cats
During the cold war, the CIA attempted to transform an ordinary domesticated house cat into a sophisticated bugging device as part of Operation Acoustic Kitty. The idea was to surgically alter
cats so they could eavesdrop on Soviet conversations from park benches and window sills.
The project began in 1961when the CIA implanted a battery and a microphone into a cat and turned its tail into an antenna. However, the cat wandered off when it was hungry a problem that had to be addressed in another operation. Finally after 5 years, several surgeries, intensive training and 15 million dollars, the cat was ready for its first field test.
The CIA drove the cat to a Soviet compound on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington DC and let it out of a parked van across the street. The cat walked into the road and was immediately hit by a taxi.
Operation Acoustic Kitty was declared a failure and completely abandon in 1967.
OK, we have no idea if there is any truth to this tail... but we got it from a reliable source... the internet!
Next up.
Did you know that it's possible that without refrigeration Ronald Regan might not have become president...
Want to know why? http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/v06v9z/steven-Johnson
Check out Jen Bingham's open letter on McSweeney's titled; An open letter to myself when I had seven cats; http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-myself-when-i-had-seven-cats
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Noodle and crew
What the hell happened?
I mean...really?
Well, you get what
you pay for!
Heaven help us all;;;
Noodle and crew
I was wrong!
Family can NOT be family if trouble changes everything....
We were lucky and found this out before giving away our last dollar and believing.
Don't get caught up in emotions and belief's
You could be being played!
Noodle and crew
Now there's a loaded word.
It's coming up to Thanksgiving and family usually plays a big part.
Here is the thing...
family is family!
You may not love them, heck you may not even like them...but the fact is family really is family.
You may not agree on religion, politics, abortion. democrat or republican, etc. etc. etc...
You may hate your brother or mother or aunt BUT, it doesn't change the fact that they are your family.
For better or worse.
So, maybe we'd all be better off just letting go of the differences and see if somewhere no matter how
deeply buried they might be, we can't find some sort of common ground. Even if its ..
just for the holidays
Have a super-duper Sunday!
Noodle and crew
We are joining The Cat on My Head blog hop!
( baby Noodle archives)
Life can be a balancing act...embrace the uncertainty.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Noodle and crew
"Good night and good luck". Edward R. Murrow
"And that's the way it is". Walter Cronkite
We grew up with journalists who actually reported the news.
Not talking points and talking heads, but real verified factual news.
We were reminded of this while re-watching the movie Good Night and Good Luck
We miss journalism and we miss great journalists.
Mind you, this is not about fake news or an incitement of the media, there are good even great journalists out there today reporting real facts.
But watching the closing scenes from this movie, three things came to mind...
First how eerily similar the McCarthy Hearings sound to what is going on today. We need to heed the warnings of those who fought against and survived the events like the McCarthy era.
In the coming months we will be tested as we navigate the hearings and fall out of todays Impeachment hearings..
Second, if you just substitute the word Internet for television or box with lights, you could be talking about today.
And lastly, it reminds us of journalism that once was and what it could be again if only we have the courage to demand it.
Noodle and crew
Seriously...
you know you're in trouble when both Liz AND Dick Cheeney are voting against you!
Enough said?
not really
they are a small portion of a growing number of republicans that are endorsing Harris...
and apparently, Donald Trump gets it...
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We are joining The Cat on My Head blog hop!
There are people running through the streets above us.
There is nowhere to run but it doesn't seem to matter.
I was running and fell through this door way. I barely escaped being trampled.
I can make out shapes in the darkness.
I think there are seven of us down here.
It's hard to know for sure.
Fear and hunger have driven some of the others into the damp corners where the light falls off
suddenly and all that's left is the stench.
We are all just waiting.
My hair keeps sticking to the concrete wall I'm leaning against.
I'm not sure but I think it's sticky from the blood.
Every time I move my head a few more strands are pulled out adding to the growing number left on the wall behind me.
Most of us have gathered in a space away from the door, more toward the center of the room.
The corners are too dangerous.
The young man with the glasses was curled up in one of the corners when he was attacked by a rat trying to gnaw through the blood soaked towel around his leg.
I think we may be in the basement of an old grocery store.
We found some boxes of stale crackers but they were gone after the first few days.
There are some tin cans of something but the ends are bulging and there's nothing to open them with anyway.
The water ran out yesterday.
There is an old couple sitting across from me.
The woman couldn't stop crying, she just sobbed and clutched a photograph to her chest.
Her husband said it was a picture of their son.
He tried to comfort his wife but after two days, he stopped.
After that she cried all the harder.
Yesterday she stopped crying. She's been silent ever since.
The blond girl at the end of room talked to me for the first couple of days.
Now she just sits in silence like most of the others.
Today I tried to talk to any of them but there was no response.
None of them will answer me.
My brain feels sluggish and I just want to sleep.
I don't feel the hunger anymore but I'm very thirsty.
I mention this to the old couple across the room but there is no reply.
I have begun to crave the sound of another human voice more than that of water to quench my thirst.
If someone doesn't speak to me soon , I'm sure I will go mad.
My eyes feel heavy.
Maybe it would be alright to sleep for just a little while.
When I wake up maybe someone will talk to me.
I'm sure one of them will have something to say soon...
On a happier note...
we are joining The Cat on My Head blog hop!
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