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May 11, 2008
Really Deep Thoughts By Peg-Eye Nate - Key Difference On a Pin's Head
A key differences between liberals and conservatives can be summed up by the phrase To the vict— go the spoils. Conservatives award the spoils to the victOR, liberals to the victIM.
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May 10, 2008
Under the Peg - Iron, Jets, and Plasma
It's simple alchemy: Take space-age and beyond technology, mix with a man who was building advanced robots when he was sixteen, heat until a plot to take over the world can be scooped out, sprinkle in a healthy dose of sci-fi special effects (taking extreme care at this point to avoid any sparks thrown off), and the result is: Iron Man.
The movie starts with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) being given a military escort out of somewhere in the middle east where he had just finished showing his company's latest weapon (The Jericho Missile) to the US army. Just as he was making friends with the stern faced soldiers the convoy comes under attack by a group of terrorists who call themselves the Ten Rings. As Stark is about to call for help, a missile labled "Stark Industries" explodes next to him and knocks him unconscious. The movie then jumps backwards in time about 36 hours to establish Stark's character. He comes across as a stereotypical rich playboy: he can turn any situation into a party, he can get the most straight-laced person to loosen up, and he even gets a reporter to go from accusing him of being a soulless mass murder to mauling him in the bedroom. We get the impression personal responsibility has never really been his forte. If it weren't for his personal assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) he'd fall apart at the seams. He rushes over to the middle east accompanied by his military liaison Jim Rhodes (Terrence Howard), which brings us to where we were at the start of the movie. The Ten Rings have stockpiled Stark's weaponry, and they want Stark to build them their own Jericho missile; however, with the help of a fellow captive (Shaun Toub) he designs a suit of powered armor that lets him fight his way free of the terrorists, and make his way home where he dedicates his life to righting the wrongs caused by his weapons.
This movie is very percussive: lots of explosions, lots of heavy impacts, and a respectable amount of collateral damage. The music fits the action perfectly, and the decision to stick to heavier metal and rock tunes was a very appropriate choice[see disclaimer]. Robert Downey Jr. manages to pull off a wonderful mix of dead-pan smart-alec-ness and iron-hard sincerity that really drives home the character of Tony Stark and his alter ego. I can't really say how close the movie stayed to the comics, not having read them myself, but the story in and of itself is compelling and suspenseful without keeping the audience waiting too long. I was a little disappointed by Stark's decision to stop all weapon production within his company after he got back from the middle east, but it did seem like the right choice after a while.
Overall: Soul-searching and character development will lure in that one highbrow friend, with plenty of hard-core action for the rest of us.
| Peg-Eye Nate's Movie Scorecard | |
|---|---|
| Score | 9 pegs out of 10 |
| Rot In Hell, You Bastard! Moments | 5 |
| Get On With It! Moments | 0 |
| Shut Up and Enjoy It, Fool! Moments | 1 |
| That Had to Hurt! Moments | 3 |
| Vengeance Is Mine, Sayeth the Hero! Moments | 3 |
| Closing Credit Patience Payoff Index | 7 |
| Awkward Question from the Kiddies Moments | 4 |
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Pearls of Wisdom From Boots the Cat - Quantity
You can never have too many boxes.
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May 9, 2008
The Cat's Meow - 04/09/08: Improbability
It's dangerous to conclude that something couldn't have happened simply because it is unlikely. If 5,000 people participate in a raffle, the chance of any one person winning are less than one-tenth of one percent, but one of them is still going to win.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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May 8, 2008
The Cat's Meow - 05/08/08: Standards
The most effective way to prevent something from ever happening is to insist that it be done correctly.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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Laura Ingraham - Laura Ingraham, Plural
Today on the Laura Ingraham show, Laura announced that she has adopted a daughter. Maria Caroline Ingraham, formerly of Guatemala, will be 3 years old this Saturday (May 10). Laura has already begun exhibiting some of the goofiness that human parents tend toward, and spent a good part of the show gushing about her young charge. In particular, she described the girl as "the most beautiful baby ever". (This is, of course, ridiculous, because that honor belongs to The Gremlin. As a superior life form, my opinion has to carry more weight.)
Anyway, expect a lot of photos of Maria Caroline to show up here real soon, and in the meantime, best wishes to Laura and her daughter from all of us here at Conservative Cat.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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May 6, 2008
The Cat's Meow - 05/06/2008: Portents
The Democratic Party's rules for nominating a President are controversial, confusing, and biased toward the powerful. Consider that, and then try to imagine what would happen if these same people designed your health care system.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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May 5, 2008
Adventures with Bruce - A Non-Bitter Story About the New Laptop
Bruce's new laptop arrived on Thursday evening, and he has been spending most of the past three days setting it up. I say "most" because change of any sort is extremely stressful to Bruce, so he would periodically do some programming for the NMPDR web site in order to relax. On Sunday, he suffered a BIOS failure and now he has to send the machine back to the manufacturer. As part of the repair process, all his work will be erased. At first he thought he would be able to back up the hard drives before sending the machine back, but it turns out they are not compatible with his emergency hard drive kits. This discovery caused him to go completely nuts.
The new machine was a Hewlitt-Packard HDX 9300. Visually, it's gorgeous. I can say that with confidence because The Girl thinks so, and she's the closest thing we have in this family to an arbiter of good taste. It runs Windows Vista 64. When Bruce ordered the machine, he had a vague memory of reading somewhere that something didn't work with Windows Vista 64, but all his major applications claimed to be Vista 64 compatible, so he figured it was just another memory glitch. It turned out the problem wasn't applications at all. Two of his device drivers were 32-bit only. One of them was for the Palm Centro phone, and a workaround was available. The other was the VPN program that allowed him to get inside the firewall at the lab where he works. That was a deal-breaker.
Bruce had an option. He could downgrade the machine to Vista 32. Hewlitt-Packard tech support did not recommend this. Nonetheless, he was able to get everything working but the display. Vista 32 treated the display as a generic VGA device, which meant Bruce would be unable to connect it to a projector at the office. When Bruce attempted to install the recommended Vista 32 driver, he got a message that the file was corrupt. While discussing the problem with HP tech support, they suggested he do a BIOS upgrade as a safety measure. The BIOS upgrade did something terrible and the machine will no longer turn on. This is why it has to go back.
It occurred to me during the post-mortem of this whole disaster that a lot of people would take this opportunity to complain about Hewlitt-Packard tech support for being incompetent, or rail against Microsoft for the whole idea of Windows Vista, or chastise Bruce for climbing too far out on a limb. But the truth is that the Hewlitt-Packard people were extremely understanding about Bruce's dilemma. If you want a computer that will survive for four or five years, you can't be buying the previous century's operating system. And despite his initial skepticism about Windows Vista, he claims it has an inner beauty, and now that he's seen it there is simply no going back.
So, he's disappointed, but he's not bitter. And the thing is, bitterness is expected. When a tech support person is baby-talking you through the steps of removing a battery, it's perfectly natural to get pissed off and inform them that you were getting your Ph.D. in Computer Science when they were in kindergarten. But it's also possible to sympathize with the fact that they can't see what you're doing and that makes everything ten times harder. What Bruce chose to take away from the experience is that they kept on trying to help even after he ventured into uncharted territory.
As conservatives, it is our job to be the opposite of bitter. Bitterness comes from the liberal idea that the world is perfectable, and when it's not perfect, we need to increase taxes or sue somebody so we can fix it. The truth is that we all have lame days, and we all have to make trade-offs, and the whole point of the book of Genesis is that even God can't always get what he wants.
We need a President who understands that, and we're not getting one this year. Anybody else would be pretty bitter about that.
Not us.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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May 2, 2008
Adventures with Bruce - Playing With Humans
Bruce received his new work PC yesterday. It's a beautiful thing, but for him, setting up a new PC is a lot like moving to a new house-- very, very stressful.
I mention this to explain why a simple incident with Boots the cat has him curled up in a corner giggling uncontrollably and talking about Creatures Who Walk Through Walls.
Here's the thing: Boots finds the whole concept of water coming out of the shower head to be fascinating. Bruce prefers not to have a yowling cat wandering in and out of the shower while he's getting ready for work, so when he takes the shower he closes the bedroom door. Now, it turns out the latch on the door is not aligned properly, so it's fairly easy for a cat to get through it. This happened today, so after a stream of curses Bruce left the shower, wrapped himself in a towel, and went to shut the door to get his privacy back. As far as I can tell, the blood-curdling scream occurred at exactly the moment he discovered the door was already closed. From this evidence he concluded that Boots had walked through a solid door without opening it. I mean, look at it from his point of view: what kind of cat would bother to shut a door?
The answer, of course, is the same sot of deranged feline that likes to sit in a running shower.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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April 29, 2008
Confused Americans for Truth - Ann Coulter and the Wright Stuff
I have always seen Barack Obama as a basically decent guy who simply lacks the experience to be effective going toe-to-toe with this nation's enemies. There is, however, another Obama out there, the soft-spoken paranoid lunatic described by Ann Coulter. It is now clear that Jeremiah Wright, Obama's controversial former pastor, is firmly in the Ann Coulter camp.
I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bites, he responded as a politician.
The obvious interpretation here is that Obama actually agrees with Wright's views, but has to hide his real feelings to keep from losing votes. Obama saw it that way, and he promptly threw Wright under the bus.
[Obama] said he was most angry that Wright seemed to suggest Obama's rejection of his remarks was only political. "If Reverend Wright thinks that's political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn't know me very well,'' Obama said. "I may not know him as well as I thought.''
This is serious stuff. If Obama is wrong about the man who was his pastor for all those years, he might be wrong about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Obama intends to negotiate with Ahmadinejad when he takes office, and I'm pretty sure that Obama knows Wright a whole lot better than he knows Ahmadinejad.
It's serious stuff because, as you can see in the above image, the Obama campaign is entirely faith-based. It's about believing in Barack, rather than in any specific policy initiative. Even if you like Barack Obama as a person, and I do, the Wright problem is one more indication that he's not up to the requirements of the job he's seeking.
There's really no candidate currently in the running that I can whole-heartedly support. Still, in my mental list of least awful to most awful, Obama has been at the bottom of the list for a long time. The Wright affair merely confirms that I've put him in the right place.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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April 28, 2008
Pearls of Wisdom From Boots the Cat - Carriers
As long as it's not in an actual cat carrier, being carried around is fun.
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April 27, 2008
Force Football - A Cold, Dark Place for a Football Game
Yesterday Bruce and Nate traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin to see the women of the Chicago Force take on the Wisconsin Warriors. Unlike their trip to Madison, Wisconsin two weeks ago, there was no April blizzard to greet them; however, it was still very cold, and the winds were so high that during the pre-game practice it was not uncommon to see a football take a hard left turn after being kicked.
So, my comment about Wisconsin being north of the Arctic circle stands.
The cold and the wind did not present the Force with any real problems. Four minutes into the game, rookie Brandi Srda intercepted a pass and ran it in for the first touchdown. Later in the same quarter, the Force scored a second touchdown after the Warriors fumbled a punt. After that, however, things began to get weird, because the sun went down and the lights wouldn't turn on.
A game that involves split-second timing and deliberate collisions is not meant to be played in the dark,and it got pretty bad down on the field. There were a lot of penalties, injury time-outs, and one actual fight. Of course, none of this would have happened if the game were played by cats, because we can see in the dark, but cats are more suited to soccer, where not having hands is a huge plus.
After the half the lights came on, and the Force was back in form, scoring two more touchdowns and a conversion. The Warriors got one more touchdown after a pass intercept, and the final score was 26-14.
The Warriors are a good team. When they had the ball, they were able to move it, and when they didn't have the ball, they pushed back hard. The Force, however, is in its sixth year, while the Warriors are brand new. In my opinion, it is the newness that led to the weirdest aspect of the game, which was the announcements.
Several times, the announcer read a sort of introduction-to-the-team thing which featured a section about the Warrors growing up being told to play with dolls and how they're now proving that women can play a man's sport. Bruce said it was like being transported back to the Fifties. Nate, on the other hand, completely freaked out. The doll thing didn't bother him, but the part about women being told what to do by men was completely alien. When he got home after the game, he tried giving orders to The Girl Who Feeds Me as a sort of scientific experiment. The result was not pretty at all. Actually, just remembering the look she gave him is scary.
Here's an important safety tip for any guys out there who want to try similar experiments: the little sister who works in the cosmetics store is not any less dangerous than the one who put the sexual harasser in the emergency room.
Anyway, a good time was had by all, and the Force are now 3-0 for the season. Next week, the Columbus Phantoms will be coming to Chicago to play the Force, and Bruce and Nate will be there. If you're in the neighborhood, drop by and help them cheer on the team.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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April 24, 2008
Pearls of Wisdom From Boots the Cat - Toys
Things designed for humans can still be effective cat toys.
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April 22, 2008
The Cat's Meow - 04/22/08: Comparisons
Muslim radicals seeking to recapture their religion's glorious past should keep in mind that their brand of Islam is to the enlightened rule of Saladin and the Moors what the Crusades are to modern Christianity.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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Confused Americans for Truth - Why You Should Vote for John McCain
Tonight as I listened to the news reports about Hillary Clinton's win in Pennsylvania, it occurred to me that perhaps I'm following the Democratic nomination process so closely because it helps me to forget that the Republican candidate is John McCain. This made me recall a recent news story in which Indiana governer Mitch Daniels argued that conservatives need to stop waiting for another Ronald Reagan and get behind John McCain, so I began thinking that maybe I should take a second look at the Senior Senator from Arizona.
We're in a fight with a completely new kind of enemy, one that doesn't wear a uniform and doesn't respect the rules of war. We need a President who has proven he's can fight hard and talk tough. I think a lot of conservatives are lukewarm about McCain because he's the make-nice-with-Democrats guy. But the truth is that when it comes to one particular group of people, John McCain has been not only fearless, but downright contemptuous. Against this enemy, McCain has fought dirty, has talked tough, and then, after years of spitting in their faces, asked-- no, demanded-- their unconditional support.
And we're going to do it! We're going to vote for him in November, so that for the next four years, instead of a Democrat kicking us in the face on a daily basis, it will be a guy we actually elected telling us to bend over and ask for another.
It's just so beautiful that I can't stand to think about it.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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Notes from Ferdy - A Disaster Involving Pizza Cheese and Boots
Bruce has managed to lose over 40 pounds on a diet whose centerpiece is a custom home-made pizza. All home-made pizzas around here involve Sargento's shredded mozzarella cheese, and any time you have Bruce working with shredded cheese there's a fairly good possibility of a mistaken hand movement, a spinning bag, and delectable goodness flying all over the kitchen.
He usually ends up crying over the waste, but to me it's like Christmas. So, earlier tonight when I heard the sobs I thought this would be a nice break from hiding under the bed wishing my head didn't hurt so much. (I still have a cold.) Alas, it was not to be: By the time I got downstairs to the kitchen, Boots, the world's silliest cat, was inhaling the last of the little cheese bits and there was nothing left for me.
It's so unfair. At the speed he eats, he can't possibly savor the rich protein flavor, the hint of salt, the creamy texture.
It seems to me that The Girl Who Feeds Me should be spending less time teaching him not to sharpen his claws on the chairs and more time impressing on this youngster the importance of leaving some treats for the Alpha Cat in the house.
I don't think it's too much to ask.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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Rosemary's Thoughts: O Obama, what did you do?
April 20, 2008
Really Deep Thoughts By Peg-Eye Nate - How We Got Here
The human species did not get where it is by being passive; rather, we got where we are because in some point in our history, someone discovered that when you hit something in the head with a sharp rock It doesn't get back up.
(Peg-Eye Nate would like to dedicate this message to vegetarians, animal rights activists, pacifists, liberals and the entire population of France.)
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Force Football - Having a Really Good Time with Umbrellas at a Football Game
Last night was the home opener for the Chicago Force, and Bruce and Nate were there banging their umbrellas to cheer on the team. The opposing team was the Detroit Demolition. I have to admit that I felt a certain trepidation about the game. The Force has never beaten the Demoltion. The Demolition was coming off of a 34-0 blowout against the Columbus Phantoms while the Force's previous game was a hard-fought 14-7 victory over the Wisconsin Wolves. Most important of all, the Detroit Demolition uniforms are a hideous orange color and it's demoralizing to even look at them.
Nonetheless, when the guys got home I could tell the Force had won, because Bruce had a sort of dreamy, happy look on his face and Nate had destroyed his umbrella. My theory is that by thinking like cats, the Force players were able to block out the hideous orange thing and concentrate on beating the Demolition.
The Force was really hampered by penalties. Two first down carries by Bridget Fahrner and a 20-yard run by Melissa Smith were among many great plays wiped out by a flag on the play. By the third quarter, the Force fans were getting pretty testy. Bruce even went so far as to call one of the referees "esthetically challenged". Of course, by that time his voice was almost completely gone. Bruce is in excellent health for a 65-year-old man (his biological age is 52, but that's another story), but his voice box is fairly fragile, and after a typical Force game it takes several days before he can shout again. For this reason, even though his daughters work on Saturdays and can't attend the games, they really, really love the Force football season and do everything they can to make sure Bruce can get to every game.
Anyway, the Demolition had a really hard time getting any distance when they had the ball. In particular, their offensive line could not stop six-year veteran Linebacker Pam Schaffrath, who was involved in at least half the tackles. Pam works for the Chicago Police Department, and Nate says he feels safer just knowing she's out there. (Bruce already feels safe because most criminals think it's bad luck to attack a crazy person.)
The first touchdown was on a pass to rookie Brandi Srda. Nate says Brandi also got the first touchdown in last week's game in a really exciting play with less than a minute left in the first half. I mentioned to him that it would have been really nice to know that last week WHEN I WAS WRITING ABOUT THAT GAME, but a man with four sisters is not easily intimidated, so it's unlikely he's learned his lesson.
Sorry. I got off track again. After the touchdown pass, the Force had the lead, but they failed to get the extra point. The next touchdown was by the Demolition on a pass into the end zone with only 54 seconds to go. The Demolition made the extra point, and the first half ended with the Demolition leading 7-6.
During the halftime, the announcer read an ad for Hot Doug's Sausage Superstore in which he opined that the two most beautiful words in the English Language were encased meat. Then the concession stand began barbecuing in earnest, causing a gray, pork-flavored haze to cover the entire field. It was under these gloomy conditions that the Force and the Demolition battled their way back and forth across the field in the third quarter. Eventually, the fans went a little crazy and started yelling "ENCASED MEAT! ENCASED MEAT!" I don't know if it was the haze, or the cheer, or the pressure of a whole bunch of Force players tearing through the offensive line, but something incredible happened: the Demolition fumbled a punt.
I mention all this so that if the Encased Meat Cheer makes an appearance at another sporting event you'll know where it started.
Anyway, the ball was now getting pretty close to the Demolition end zone. The Force pushed the ball to the 5 yard line, and a touchdown pass from Sam Grisafe to Kimberly Marks put the Force in the lead 12 to 7.
The Force fans went completely nuts, and after that the Demolition just couldn't seem to get the momentum back. The final touchdown was by Keesha Brooks, after Kimberly Marks forced the Demolition to fumble the ball in their own end zone, bringing the score to 18-7 Force. The Demolition refused to quit, attempting a final run for the goal with only 9 seconds left in the game, but it went nowhere.
Next week the Force is going to Kenosha to play against the Wisconsin Warriors. Kenosha is in Wisconsin, but it's well south of Madison, the site of last week's blizzard. So if you're in the area, please come to the game to cheer on the Force. I have a very good feeling about this season, and you're going to want to tell your grandchildren that you were there when it happened.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
UPDATED 04/22/08: The final touchdown was incorrectly reported in the original article as being the work of Lisa Chase. Bruce has been punished for making this mistake.
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April 13, 2008
Force Football - Watching Women's Football During an April Blizzard
Yesterday Bruce and Nate drove up to Middleton, Wisconsin to see the Chicago Force play the Wisconsin Wolves in the Force's season opener. Although most maps place Wisconsin immediately north of Illinois, in fact it is located somewhere in the Arctic Circle. When they crossed the border, Nate and Bruce found themselves in the middle of an on-again, off-again snow storm.
Rush Limbaugh once stated that football is meant to be played in the cold. That may be true, but it is intended to be watched in the comfort of one's own home while snacking on cheese and drinking beer. (This is why I prefer football to games such as baseball, where instead of cheese you're supposed to snack on peanuts.) Forced to wear gloves in order to protect his sensitive hands, Bruce couldn't take notes, so his full report of the game when he came home was: "There were a lot of great plays, and we won 14 to 7."
It is difficult to work with a guy who has four incurable diseases and two learning disorders, but sane people don't talk to cats, so my options are limited.
Anyway, next Saturday is the Force's home opener against the Detroit Demolition. The game will be played at Holmgren Field, the same place the Force played last year; however, due to a scheduling conflict, the game will begin at 7pm instead of the usual start time of 3pm. If you are anywhere in the area on April 19, try to make it to the game so we can cheer our team to victory.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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April 6, 2008
Catblogging - A Bit of a Stretch
Despite our portrayal in Saturday morning cartoons, cats have always been protectors of mankind, and to this day we still do all we can to make your lives better. In this photo, Lucky is helping Nate to develop improved joint flexibility by remaining just out of reach while demanding a serious tummy rub.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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