Author: Blazingcatfur

A Cat Show, Donuts and Flowers

Kathy at the Ex with a cat toy she bought for Pip and a giant ice cream waffle.

Kathy lived for the CNE cat show. We practically built our August around it.

After being shut down by covid for two years running it was finally revived this year.

I felt an obligation to attend but was concerned I was torturing myself with grief and a desire to live in the past.

I asked some friends and they suggested I go but to also consider that some things may best be given up.

I went with a buddy and while it was fine I know it can never be the same.

Kathy was like a child among small critters, giddy with excitement and affection.

Those memories of Kathy’s delight will sustain me.

Tiny Tom donuts, a Kathy fave, and ice cream waffles made the day. No visit to the Ex was complete without these treats.

On Friday I went to visit Kathy’s resting place. It was one year to the day since her funeral.

I brought her some flowers and prayed and chatted though I could just as easily do the same at home. That’s how Kathy rolls.

Little things have happened that hint she is nearby keeping an eye on things, making sure I get what I need if not what I want. One day I may share them.

911 cut deep into Kathy.

It was a life changing event for her and privately she shed many tears for its victims over the years. One cannot be remembered without the other for me.

It is a rare day that passes without momentarily imagining she’ll be opening the front door soon or I’ll catch a glimpse of her working away at her computer and all will be right again.

I think it will be OK if I attend the cat show next year.

I gotta buy Kath her Tiny Toms ya know.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inKathy Shaidle

That Day, Yet Again

Twenty-one years later, how many Americans still don’t know our enemy?

When the U.S. entered World War II, the director Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life) left Hollywood and, at the age of 44, enlisted in the Army, where General George C. Marshall put him to work making pictures for the war effort. The films, several of which were released under the umbrella title Why We Fight, sought to explain why America was at war with Germany and Japan. They outlined the ideologies of Nazism and Shintoism, examined both enemies’ militarism, fanatical obedience, master-race mentality, and lust for conquest, and noted the reverence with which Hitler was held in Germany and Hirohito in Japan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in9/11

Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam?

In a 1997 Middle East Quarterly article titled “Prince Charles of Arabia,” Ronni L. Gordon and David M. Stillman looked at evidence that Britain’s crown prince might be a secret convert to Islam. They shifted through his public statements (defending Islamic law, praising the status of Muslim women, seeing in Islam a solution for Britain’s ailments) and actions (setting up a panel of twelve “wise men” to advise him on Islamic religion and culture), then concluded that, “should Charles persist in his admiration of Islam and defamation of his own culture,” his accession to the throne will indeed usher in a “different kind of monarchy.”

 

Very interesting read.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Pierre Poilievre’s dominant win is the death knell of moderate conservatism in Canada

With Pierre Poilievre’s decisive victory in the federal Conservatives’ leadership race, the party now has a generational opportunity to radically re-imagine what Conservative policies could be palatable to the Canadian public. With a strong mandate at his back, the man nicknamed Skippy need only to win the trust of a plurality of the electorate to implement reforms that would have been dismissed as untouchable by Stephen Harper.

And if this Conservative leadership race was a fight for the soul of the party, as former Progressive Conservative activist and senator Marjory LeBreton recently posited, well, the results are in. Reform is back, baby. Moderate conservatism is dead, and the harder-right, angrier, rougher edge will live the life everlasting. In the end, it wasn’t even close.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

Navy: We’re not releasing any more of our UFO videos. Not sorry

It’s been almost two and a half years since the United States Navy officially confirmed and released three videos showing unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP, or UFOs as some of us still call them) performing confounding maneuvers in the vicinity of some of our warships. That was only one step in an ongoing process that we’ve known of since December of 2017 wherein the American government has slowly but surely expanded the conversation on this subject and the Pentagon has stepped up its investigation of the phenomenon, largely under the directions of the United States Congress. The most recent development was the announcement of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

Sweden: Rightwing bloc heading to victory in Swedish election, 90% of vote count suggests

The far right appears close to causing an earthquake in Swedish politics, the Sweden Democrats becoming the country’s second-largest party while the wider rightwing bloc edged towards a slim victory over the incumbent centre-left.

Exit polls on Sunday night had suggested a narrow victory for the Social Democrats and their allies but as the votes were counted the tally swung towards the right.

With 90% of the vote counted, the right bloc of four parties had a share of the vote corresponding to a majority of three in the 349-seat parliament.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSweden

California goes lights-out thanks to green energy

Instead of taking a second look at nuclear power, the Golden State doubles down

California has gone full pagan — it lives and dies by the weather. Over the last few days, the state’s power grid has groaned under the strain of a massive heatwave. Combine that with a hydropower-sapping drought and you’ve got a recipe for blackouts.

While major weather events pose challenges for any electricity system, California’s has become uniquely vulnerable to blackouts thanks to an over-investment in weather-dependent wind and solar. Every night during the heatwave, solar experiences its scheduled defeat at the hands of sunset and Californians are left praying for the wind to blow and and the imports to flow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, Green-Scam

This is Sweden’s populist moment

The right-wing Sweden Democrats are exploiting the failures of a globalist political elite.

The Sweden Democrats are on the brink of a huge electoral breakthrough. In the run-up to today’s General Election, polls have suggested the right-wing populists could become Sweden’s second-largest party, and the dominant force among the right-wing opposition. If the right wins – and currently it is level-pegging in the polls with the centre-left bloc led by the Social Democrats – there is even a chance that the Sweden Democrats could enter government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSweden

‘The FBI Showed Up’: DCNF Reporter Details How Feds Pressured Americans Into Signing Away Gun Rights

“Between 2016, at least 2016 and 2019, we obtained extensive records from Gun Owners of America, a firearms rights group, as part of its ongoing Freedom of Information lawsuit against the FBI. Between that period, at least 2016, the FBI showed up at the homes and Americans and met them in other redacted locations — individuals that they had been investigating for things like ongoing threats, making remarks online deemed controversial, on social media, in chat rooms. And they handed them these forms that voluntarily, according to this form, waive their right to own possess or use any firearms at all,” DCNF investigative reporter Gabe Kaminsky told Newsmax host Tom Basile.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

How the West Built a Russian Enemy

“One would think the Tsar is back!” This is how a colleague covering the G8 summit in Saint Petersburg in July 2006 commented after a visit by President Vladimir Putin to the facilities provided for journalists covering the “historic event.” Historic because this was the first time that Russia, admitted as a full member of the club of “great powers” in 1997, was hosting the summit.

Putin wore his usual disdainful grin like the man who broke the bank in Monte Carlo.

To show that Russia is back, Putin had chosen the Konstantinovsky Palace as the venue for the G8 summit. The elegant chateau had been started in 1714 by Peter The Great as a Russian answer to the Versailles Palace in France.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia

First class arrogance! New Orleans’ Democrat mayor says flying economy is UNSAFE for black women, as she refuses to repay $30,000 of taxpayer cash she splurged on luxury flights to Europe

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New Orleans Democrat mayor has declared economy class flights unsafe for black women, while insisting she wont repay $30,000 of taxpayers’ money blown on first-class flights to France and Switzerland.

Speaking at a press conference Thursday, LaToya Cantrell said: ‘My travel accommodations are a matter of safety, not of luxury.

‘As all women know, our health and safety are often disregarded and we are left to navigate alone.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

‘We Always Have Disney Employees’: Florida Sheriff Reveals Results Of Human Trafficking Investigation

A Florida sheriff said that his department “always” caught Disney employees during undercover operations, while revealing the results of a week-long investigation into human trafficking.

The large investigation, known as “Fall Haul 2,” was spearheaded by the Polk County Police Department and involved a week-long sting operation in central Florida that netted over 150 arrests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime