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spatlese Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:52 PM
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Cat Lovers, check in! Really touching picture...


stole this from a thread on GD
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DenverDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:53 PM
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1. Fucking terrifying.
I fear for the well being of that poor kitty.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:54 PM
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2. What thread? I'm wondering where that picture was taken. n/t
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spatlese Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:57 PM
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6. Here's the link
but be warned that the title is 'cat lovers, do not read this war report' or something... and the poster did not cite their source.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2675774#2676294
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sans qualia Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:54 PM
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3. I support our troops' kitties
Awwwwwwwwwww... *deep breath* Aaawwwwwwwwwwww...
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:55 PM
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4. there is something sad about this photo
The facial expression of the young man is oddly heartbreaking..
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:58 PM
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7. reminds me of a line from an old song
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child...
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:37 AM
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31. have you heard the Blind Boys of Alabama sing that?
"Sometimes, I feel, like a mooootherless child (motherless child)"?

Damn they're good! If you haven't, go get "Spirit of the Century" and prepare to have your socks blown off.


And this is a heartbreaking photo. I avoided that thread in GD...
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HarrietBrown Donating Member (180 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:59 PM
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12. You're right. It looks like he's far away for a moment missing home--
he looks very young.
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Be Brave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:56 PM
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5. Awwww! I wonder if somebody adopted the cat.
I saw a segment on Animal Planet once which told a story of a soldier in Iraq who adopted a puppy he found behind a trash bin. It was arranged for the puppy to be flown to the US (Texas) while the soldier was still in Iraq. That was a lucky puppy. Just goes to show you the kind of big-hearted people there are over there fighting for this country.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:58 PM
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8. That picture
hurts. It just does.
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AllyCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:59 PM
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9. This was in this month's Cat Fancy.
Good article on how the soldiers are finding all these abandoned animals and taking them into their barracks as mascots and friends.
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Dukakis88 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:59 PM
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10. The cat is wired with explosives. A martyr to Allah.
A hundred virgin she-cats will greet him in the afterlife.
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AllyCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:04 PM
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13. D88--that's a calico cat
SHE'S a girl! So what does she get in the afterlife? Or does her family just get a $25,000 reward?
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Dukakis88 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:14 PM
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18. Hard to say... Maybe the same thing?
I mean, I have a hard time wishing a hundred virgin men on a dead woman warrior.
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:33 PM
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23. He should ship it to Asscroft, before he leaves office n/t
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 10:59 PM
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11. looks kinda like my cat Spanky
ahhhh

Love my Spanky!
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spatlese Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:04 PM
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14. Can anyone guess what is the sex of the cat?
Scientific explanation would give you extra credit! :)
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virgdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:13 PM
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17. Not an uber scientist here, but here goes...
the cat is a calico, and therefore a female. Most calicos are female due to genetics ( a sex linked gene, which accounts for most ginger tabbies being male). A male calico is very rare and most are sterile.
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spatlese Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:15 PM
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19. Extra credit is yours! :)
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:16 PM
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20. She's a girl
It has to do with inheriting two X chromosome genes rather than silencing one of them, or something like that. It has been way too long since I studied that.

In a nutshell female mammals are special. :)
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:23 PM
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21. Actually there are three X chromosomes
involved. One of them is silenced..
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spatlese Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:29 PM
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22. If she is normal, she has only 2 X chromsomes,
and only one is silenced in any cell.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:06 AM
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26. but she's not normal
That's why she's a calico :)
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spatlese Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 09:04 AM
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34. Female calico cats are normal...
only males are not normal...
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:17 AM
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30. I am glad I was that close!
:)
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:11 PM
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15. could be my son or his friends.
Young man, whoever you are, I am sorry.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:13 PM
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16. aww...
we have to remember, those are kids over there. Scared, lonely kids.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:35 PM
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24. This is one of the best anti-war photos I have ever seen
The photographer should get a prize.

But the Soldier needs his fucking head examined if he is, as it appears, on guard... cause he aint looking out for himself or his buddies.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 11:50 PM
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25. He's looking out for the Kitty
He took Pitty on the Kitty. :bounce:
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:07 AM
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27. He is either a Brit or an Isreali, I can't really tell... not US
so, it ain't one of our sons... but it is somebody's son, for sure.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:12 AM
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28. 90% sure Israeli
Edited on Fri Nov-12-04 12:13 AM by DS1
Same drap combat suits and flaks w/ US M16 but browner boots.

which makes me consider alerting the first post as antisemetic ;-)
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:14 AM
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29. hard to tell these days of internationality... our marines boots
throw me off sometimes.

But, I think you are right, Israeli is it... Okay, so maybe he is on guard duty outside Yasser's compound... not too much going on there right now.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:42 AM
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32. So sad.
Which of them will live to grow up?
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spatlese Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 09:03 AM
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33. A kick for morning cat lovers. n/t
:kick:
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spatlese Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 11:04 AM
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35. Last kick
before this picture disappears into archives...
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djeseru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 11:14 AM
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36. Afghanistan is the location...
...of this photo, one of the bases there had cats all over the place so the Army cleaned them out. Unfortunately, the rats and other feral creatures started taking the kitties place. So the Army let the cats take the base back over - no more rats...

Saw this photo earlier in the summer and I still really like it.
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sofree Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 11:28 AM
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37. I like it too.
I saw it and liked it as well...
I have owned a few calico cats...:-)
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