Patriotic Cat is Patriotic

Of course Ghlaghghee loves America. It’s where she keeps all her disembowled prey.

Question for you all: If I posted a picture of my dog instead of writing about the Dobson/Obama tiff, which news story do you think I avoided writing about by posting this picture?

39 Comments on “Patriotic Cat is Patriotic”

  1. The Mormon church telling all its members to work hard against equal civil rights for gays?

  2. Are you writing about the big stir over Obama’s little mock-presidential seal, or the fact that he doesn’t wear an American flag pin?

  3. @Matt (#8):

    That is just soul-crushing. (or would be, if I believed in souls)

    The worst part is a lot of people will believe that because some dude claims to have seen dinsaurs there really are and the scientific establishment is hiding them. But hey! We can trust some random “biologist” because he’s a Christian, so of course he wouldn’t lie!

  4. I would go with the one about the Army awarding a $300 million arms contract to two pinheads (21 and 25 years old, respectively) who sent surplus Chinese crap to our forces in Afghanistan and are now up on fraud charges (and why these scum aren’t already in shackles and cleaning toilets at Bagram, who can say?).

    But I think the more likely one is Karl Rove calling Barack Obama “…the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.” So basically describing Dubya and hanging that image on Obama.

    That’s why I think Patriotic Cat is where at least she knows she’s free.

  5. I once wrote a blog post criticising the song “Walk the Dinosaur” for factual inaccuracies. Someone turned up to try and convince me that humans and dinosaurs had coexisted (why else have people made so many pictures of dragons?) They had a very pretty page with many many pictures. I had intended to write a followup which would have involve birds a lot. Of course 40,000,000 years ago there were such things as “Terror Birds” – if we’d gone back in time and someone shouted “It’s a dinosaur! Run!” I wouldn’t stop to correct them.

  6. O Great Scalzi, who cares what story you claim prompted this wonderful picture?

    You posted it because it was the right thing to do, especially after your most recent offenses.

    How beautiful She is. The membership of The Official Ghlaghghee Fan Club can no longer be restrained by the Executive Committee, and has over our objections awarded you the coveted

    The Official Ghlaghghee Fan Club Seal of Approval Award
    valid from 24 June 2008 to 25 June 2008

    The Official Ghlaghghee Fan Club

  7. I changed my mind. I agree with Nobu. You are CLEARLY avoiding anything to do with bacon, ever. So you substitute it with a photo of your CAT. Who one had BACON taped to her.

    Clever, Scalzi. Cleeeeeever.

  8. If the dog is better than James Dobson, I think the cat is probably better than telecom immunity for warrantless wiretapping.

  9. Is it just me, or is that a rather large flag?

    It seems to me that if my cat were sitting before in front of my flag, the field of blue would be smaller.

    Or maybe my cat is bigger.

  10. 17: But I think the more likely one is Karl Rove calling Barack Obama “…the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.” So basically describing Dubya and hanging that image on Obama.

    You are correct, sir. I am absolutely certain of it.

  11. This is actually a really interesting way of crowdsourcing the news. It’s like Friday Cat Blogging got a journalism decree and is now looking for venture capital.

  12. Hm, I think I see a pattern here… First the duckies, then Kodi and now Ghlaghghee. You are clearly trying to avoid all kinds of controversial news, steering Whatever towards cute pictures of toys and domesticated animals. If there were ads on the site, I’d suspect that you were trying to be acceptable to everyone in order to cash more from your ads. Since that’s not the case, we have to search for alternative explanations. Did somebody actually manage to scare you in that hate mail contest?

  13. Jeff Hentosz:

    That part of the arms dealing scandal s old news. The new, cool part is that the US ambassador to Albania, the Albanian government, and the State Department were involved in covering up the sale and transfer of the shoddy ammunition.

    Tawdry incompetence on a scale that grand can only be covered up by a cat on a flag.

  14. In the interest of clarity in Mr. Scalzi’s eventual Senate confirmation hearings, I will note that Ghlaghghee does not appear to be on US flag, but merely next to one.

  15. That the recent Physicians for Human Rights report (http://brokenlives.info/) unequivocally establishes that Bush et. al have committed war crimes in the use of torture and should be held accountable as war criminals?

  16. The fact that we sell our recyclables to China – plastic, paper & metal – and they turn around and sell it back to use as products?

    Wow. That’s totally awesome.

  17. “The fact that we sell our recyclables to China – plastic, paper & metal – and they turn around and sell it back to use as products?”

    That’s, like, how it’s supposed to work, isn’t it?

    I mean, not necessarily *China*, but someone’s supposed to buy that crap rather than buying new plastic, pulp, and metal stock.

%d bloggers like this: