Polics In a Ten Gallon Hat
I sense a certain inspiration at work in this Australian campaign ad for Bob Katter:
Compare to the similarly-hatted and always ALL CAPS DALE PETERSON:
This bodes well, my friends. GUNS HORSES HATS CROCODILES ON THE LOOSE.
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Sussing Out Possible Omens
A Chinese boy is born with 6 normally-growing digits on each hand and foot, giving him 24 total.
Strangely, three months before the birth of Guangchun, his family’s sow also labored a weird shaped piglet, which had eight legs, two mouths and four ears.
His mother says:
“The pig died two days later. [...]
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I’ve Left It Too Late Again
So this time I give you a picture of a baby sea otter, sucking a pacifier.
Curtsy: ZooBorns. Baby turns one tomorrow. We’ll be at the zoo.
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The Jones Act and Creative Problem Solving in the Gulf Oil Spill
Weekly Standard – Oil Messed Up Anger grows along the Gulf Coast at the Obama administration’s pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history. By Winston Groom (author of Forrest Gump, among others)
It has been apparent from the outset that the Obama administration had no wish to be responsible for fixing this [...]
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I Got Nuthin
Tomorrow’s a big day. So I offer you just this: A dog playing soccer with a deer.
Where is that dog’s self respect. EAT THE DEER.
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Peter Recommends CXXIV
Rat Staring Contest With Background Music
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While Aussies Have Been On the Hunter Valley Wine
They had to do something with all that lager…
Telegraph – ‘Drunk’ parrots baffle vets as they fall out of trees in Australia
Update: “The sad toll on the innocents,” hahaha.
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Time For Top Hats in Poland
Telegraph – Beavers responsible for Poland’s flooding
Beavers are partly to blame for the devastating floods that have swept Poland killing 15 people because the animals tunnel through vital defences protecting the cities, the interior minister has said.
Hah!
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DALE PETERSON FOR ALABAMA AGRICULTURE COMMISSION, REPUBLICAN ILLEGALS GUNS HORSES HATS
HE’S AN ALL-CAPS KINDA GUY, DALE PETERSON:
Curtsy: RC2 (quote, “Alabama Is Not Like DC”)
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“Nice Continent. Pity About the Africans.”
This is long, but engrossing:
New Yorker – The Hunted Did American conservationists in Africa go too far? by Jeffrey Goldberg
It follows the story of a husband/wife pair of American grad students turned conservationists who moved to Botswana and then Zambia and got involved in fighting illegal ivory poachers. The first half quotes much of their own [...]
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What a Jerk
WHAT GIVES HER THE RIGHT?!?!
/jealous
About halfway through the nausea kicks in and you just think, “oh COME ON.” Although, I keep expecting one of them to roll over on her and kill her, cuz, y’know, IT’S DANGEROUS CUDDLING WITH WILD ANIMALS THAT ARE THE SIZE OF VOLKSWAGENS.
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Lullaby Hound
Curtsy: Brett McS.
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Poor Dog
BBC – New video of tsunami wave sweeping through Chilean town
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Yep, It’s the Demon Sheep
I keep HEARING about this on Twitter. And this is the origin:
So, I like Carly. Is that bad? (Mea culpa: I haven’t been doing my due diligence)
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There There, Baby Antelope
Oops. I am retroactively dating this post.
A little busy travelling Friday cat-blogging. From the Daily Mail.
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