Caturday and a Memo to the Cats

Gracie engages in a little bit of personal maintenance:

MEMORANDUM
From: Staff
To: The Cats

Here at Misfit Central, we strive to provide you with adequate amounts of food at the usual times. It has come to our attention that, from time to time, you exhibit displeasure at the menu selection(s).

Please note that there will be no substitutions. If an item on the buffet is not to your liking, you are free to not eat it. Sitting by the food and glaring at the waitress will not result in an additional choice. Nor will purr-bombing, yowling or gravity-testing items on the counters likewise result in more food.

We appreciate your diligent work to date in ensuring that the premises continue to remain free from infestations of kangaroos, giraffes and Martians.

But you're still not going to get more food.

Yesterday--- Ohhh-Kayyy

Paul McCartney and Jimmie Fallon sing the "original" lyrics of the song "Yesterday."

Caturday- Kitten Extra

The daughter of a friend is fostering some kittens.

Samantha:

She is very friendly and loves to be cuddled. They all are friendly, come to think of it.

Jasper:

Tigger:

Jasper and Samantha at play:

Max, who was the baby of the household, is not amused.

GOP: Tax Breaks for the Rich--Ja; Food Safety--Nein!

The party of the Confederacy will hold up a bill to improve food safety until the rich get their tax breaks.

Here is what galls me: Long-term capital gains are taxed at 15%. So if your great-great-granddaddy was a robber baron or if your great-granddaddy was a bootlegger and you are getting a tidy income from the family trust fund, you pay only 15% of that income in Federal income tax. Regardless of how much it is.

I see nothing fair in that. And that is before the long-cherished dream of the GOP to reduce the income tax on capital gains to zero.

Which means that the trust-fund babies would truly be what they are: Worthless sponges.

Santa Takes His Cut

A story.

Last year's story, in case you've forgotten.

Where You Can Find Zombies That Are Gainfully Employed

They work as school administrators, who love their "zero tolerance" policies, because one does not need to have a working cerebral cortex to administer them.

(H/T)

WikiLeaks Question

What if Assange had been releasing secret documents obtained from China or Russia or Iran?

Would Huckabee and the other Wingnuts be calling for his head? Hell no, they'd be cheering him on. They'd be engaging in rounds of self-congratulation about liberty and a free press and all of those words that the Wingnuts believe in, but only when it doesn't discomfit them.

To the Right, "freedom" means "the freedom to agree with us." Which means that they don't believe in freedom whatsoever.

Freedom in the UK- Gone Forever?

The UK cops threatened a 12 year old boy with arrest if he picketed the Prime Minister's office. The kid was told that armed cops would be watching him and if anyone got unruly, they'd arrest the kid for instigation.

Brave cops they have in the UK.

Rewriting History

What the apologists for the slaveowners are doing.

Comedy Central goes after them:

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If you look at this map of where slaves were owned in 1860, it will become clearer why West Virgina broke away and why there was hostility to the war in the mountainous regions of the South.

And We Get to Charge More Fees!

The FAA is "reregistering" every airplane in the U.S.

Of course, they get to charge more fees for it.