I’ve had cats who really loved certain smells. Vanilla, for instance. And York Peppermint Patties: Buster loved a whiff of one of those.
But here are cats rejecting various objects because apparently they smell real bad. Cats hate lemons; but we have no idea what a lemon smells like to a cat. They don’t seem to like the bouquet of toothpaste, either.
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Half this post has been cut off and vanished into cyberspace. How did these guys manage to go extinct without computers?
Well, they won’t let me post any pictures, and I have no idea whether this post, without a picture, will actually appear.
It’s not my fault. My neighbor is having enormous troubles today staying on the Internet. It conks out every few minutes. I can’t find out why. Patty’s on the phone with Verizon, trying to talk to some freakin’ robot.
Requested by Erlene, It Is Well with My Soul, performed in an empty silo–how did they ever think of that?–by Sounds Like Reign. Great acoustics in there, with singers who know how to take full advantage of it: and glorifying God as they sing.
Ms. Authentic, Makes Hiawatha Look Like a Greek
Goodbye, Columbus! No, no, not the movie–I mean, really, goodbye, Columbus, Ohio.
To appease assorted Far Left weirdos, the city of Columbus has voted to change its name to Clan Mother Elizabeth Warren Community, in recognition of the Massachusetts Senator’s fantastic claim to be a Native American. The DNA test says she’s wrong, but you know how they lie. The DNA test says world chess champ Magnus Carlsen, born and bred in Norway, has more Native American blood than Elizabeth Warren. Just goes to show you how racist those tests are.
The Columbus City Council has also voted to change the names of all the streets in the city, followed by a mandatory name change for each resident. Every new name must somehow “convey praise for Native Americans,” explained City Manager Native Americans Invented The Internet (formally Hiram Plotnick).
All monuments in the city will be removed, he added, and replaced by states of Elizabeth Warren. The City Council has hailed her as “Ms. Authentic, the Real Deal, makes Hiawatha look like a Greek.”
The Columbus Clippers Triple-A baseball team will now be the Clan Mother Elizabeth Warren Community Clippers. “It has a certain ring to it,” said third base coach Smokey Malone, just before shooting himself.
Communist China isn’t waiting for America’s scientists to be advertised on Craig’s List. They’re recruiting ’em fresh off the campus, and luring them out of scientific institutions that they’re already in. Dr. Mercola has the scoop.
The National Institute of Health is “investigating 189 scientists from 87 institutions for undisclosed ties to foreign institutions,” according to Dr. Mercola’s report, quoting from the NIH. Also, “93%” got undisclosed support from China and 70% did not disclose grants received from foreign sources. On top of all that, there are 399 scientists listed as being “of possible concern,” 121 of whom are now being investigated by the FBI.
So far 54 of the bad guys have either resigned or been fired.
There’s more to this story, but I’m getting depressed. Click the link and read it.
Quid: money from China. Pro Quo: illegal transfer of intellectual property–also known as “theft”–to China. Translation: Selling out America.
Didn’t stuff like this used to be treason? Didn’t the Rosenbergs get the chair for selling Stalin our nuclear weapons secrets?
Sounds like Old Sparky needs to come out of retirement.
Forbidden! Quick, somebody call the cops!
It’s instructive to visit the archives of this blog, just stroll around and see what was happening a few years ago. For instance:
One of the things we learn from these casual examinations is that America was getting pretty wifty well before any COVID virus came along. What? An unsupervised child shooting hoops? You really have to wonder–was any official involved in this quite sane? I mean, this is really crazy schiff.
I am so glad my childhood was spent in the 50s and 60s rather than today.
There’s an awful lot of stupid stuff we have to stop doing as a nation. Before it does us in.
This is just a good old hymn, the first one that came to me today–Down to the River to Pray, sung by Alison Krauss.
I declare the hymn shop open for the day.
I have seen cats catch and eat birds. It’s one of those things that’s supposed to happen in nature.
But here’s a cat who only wants to take a nap, in spite of the barking dog, the loud TV, and several birds offstage. All of this he overcomes. But he can’t overcome the crazy dove who wants to coo at him, nibble his ear, and poke him with her beak.
How does this bird know the cat won’t–well, eat her? He has opportunities to put the bird away, but doesn’t do it.
“Biological machines hard-wired to behave in certain stereotypical ways”–Fap!
Maybe he could rob a 7-11 on his way to the White House
Government never gets big or powerful or intrusive enough for Democrats.
Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi have both called for a “federal mandate” compelling all Americans to wear face masks in public (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/28/nancy-pelosi-calls-for-cdc-to-mandate-americans-wear-masks-amid-surge-in-coronavirus-cases.html).
The “mandate” would be imposed by the Center for Disease Control.
So much for government by our elected representatives, with public hearings, debate, voting, and all that old stuff. Last I looked, no one at the CDC had been voted into office by anyone.
Biden said that he, if he were president, would “require” all Americans to wear the masks. Did you know a president could do that? I certainly didn’t.
We are told by the fake nooze scribes at CNBC that face masks sure as shootin’ hamstring the old COVID-19 and anyway you ought to wear them to show that you… “care.” About something other than your personal liberties. CNBC is in the bag for this.
But of course you don’t need to wear a mask or practice “social distancing” if you’re doing something really “essential,” like rioting to “protest” imaginary systemic racism. The Death Virus will know your heart is in the right place and won’t bother you.
It’s what the lib crowd calls “Science,” these days.
When I came home from the supermarket this morning and pulled into the parking lot, the first thing I noticed was that the crows and blue jays were making no end of a fuss, up there in the treetops. The next thing I saw was… a fox. That’s what had them so upset.
This was the second time I’d seen the fox in the past few days, and many of my neighbors have seen it, too. Maybe you live in a place where seeing a fox is no big deal; but here in our New Jersey suburb, it is. Our wildlife is mostly squirrels, possums, and birds, with the odd chipmunk thrown in. Never foxes.
However, there he was, crossing the parking lot, large as life. Okay, foxes are pretty good at adapting to human-dominated environments. Even so, I’ve lived here all my life and never seen a fox until now. And there have been deer around, too.
I don’t know why this should be. I’m waiting for more information. But my wife thinks there’s been so much unwelcome building around here, it’s driven the animals out of their hiding places–by removing those places and paving them over. I hope that’s not the reason, but it could be.
I like to think the wildlife is coming back because God has something better in mind for us than anything we’ve thought of by ourselves.