Friday Cat Blogging


Gorgeous George


Heidi helping (in her own special way) my sister pack up her DVDs (she is off to York tomorrow)

Friday Cat Blogging


Heidi


Miss Heidi looking fablous as ever


George with his favourite toy


George enjoying the sunshine


Heidi and George making the most of the sun

Then they started fighting over it:


George with Heidi in a paw grip


Heidi strikes back


A Mexican standoff

Pre Friday Swiss Cat Blogging

My sister recently went on holiday to Switzerland and took a few shots of one of the local cats in Wengen, where she was staying

Music Video Blogging

Daft Punk - One More Time

Friday Cat Blogging


George pretending to be a hedgehog so he can get their food


rubbing my legs




Heidi snoozing on my bed

Ballet Blogging

Le Corsaire (Kirov Ballet, 1989)

Political Compass Test

Came out correct I think

Economic Left/Right: -5.62

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

Iraq

Iraq rescuers sift through rubble after suicide blasts that killed 200

Rescuers were today digging through the muddy ruins of clay houses in north-west Iraq where suicide bombers last night detonated fuel tankers rigged with explosives, killing at least 200 members of a minority sect.

The incident near the Syrian border was one of the deadliest since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003.

More than 300 people were injured, said Dakhil Qassim, the mayor of the nearby town of Sinjar, when the fuel tankers blew up in the remote villages of Kahtaniya, al-Jazeera and Tal Uzair. Officials today imposed a curfew on the area.

The villages are about 75 miles west of the city of Mosul, a stronghold of Sunni Islamic militants. The attacks targeted people from the Yezidi religious minority, whom Sunni extremists regard as infidels.

All the 'surge' has done is pushed the violence out of Baghdad and into the provinces, easier targets for the insurgents, in this case the Yezidi.

There is no success in Iraq and those who delude themseleves that everything is going swimmingly should be ashamed.

Unrelated Sunday Musings

On Vulgar Libertarians - Their logic is all askew they think 'if the state is abolished, then IBM will still be IBM'

They don't understand that companies like IBM are very much a product of the state capitalist system and would wither without it or at least run into major trouble.

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I get a pre 1914 vibe these days, observing the news.

With conflicts in Somaila, the Darfur region, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Northern part of Pakistan and of course the hovering above that Iran getting nuked, what if they were to all eventually link up? Its like the final long Edwardian summer, and its all going to end in tears. Question is what will emerge afterwards?

Sunday Flower Blogging





A Rose from the 2007 Seend Flower Show

more photos can be seen here

Friday Opera

Duet ("La ci darem la mano") and aria ("Ah! fuggi il traditor!") from Mozart's Don Giovanni

performed by Rodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Liliana Nikiteanu (Zerlina) and Cecilia Bartoli (Donna Elvira).

(Zürich 2001, lead by Nicolaus Harnoncourt, staged by Jürgen Flimm)

Friday Thoughts

*puts on tinfoil hat*

I get a definite 1914 vibe from the Middle East and at my most pessimistic I think Iran is going to be bombed, with disastrous consequences for the rest of the Gulf region.

I only get this feeling because they are insane enough to do it, Neocons have been gagging for this and have already started doing what they did with Iraq, building up, giving it serious thought.

I mean everyone knew it was a stupid idea to invade Iraq but they went ahead anyway.

*takes off tinfoil hat*

Friday Cat Blogging


Heidi snoozing by my laptop, webpage showing is teh coolest place on the internet!


George having a nice dream

Tuesday Cats


George in his active pose


Heidi the sun worshipper

Music Video Blogging

Kaiser Chiefs - The Angry Mob

Thoughts for Today

You know Iran really shouldn't be bombed.

There is already an undercurrent from its youth for reform and change, chafing against the religious conformity, Iran is a very young country with most of its population under the age of 25, eventually the old guys at the top are going to die off.

Everyone forgets Iran had elections, so alright the clerics choose to ignore them but still why is it condemned when Saudi is even more despotic or Egypt which is just as repressive, and yet they are regarded as moderate.

If it was bombed, all it would do is strengthen the claims of the nutcases in the Iranian government.

I think its quite appalling that bombing Iran is even being discussed in the media by the very same people who advocated invading Iraq, which has proven a huge failure, just this week the US has managed to lose 190,000 weapons, why are they still considered credible experts?

Horse Blogging

My sister is very much a horse person, has been since she was little, and today she booked riding lessons at Pewsey Vale Riding School and I came along to try out my camera with action shots.


Horses


My sister at the Pewsey Vale Riding School


Cantering


Trotting


Horsewoman

Friday Cat Blogging


Gorgeous George


Mlle Heidi