Awwww…
Hitler. Really.
It’s from this collection of rare photos of famous people, that I think I got via a tweet from Kottke.
A tweet from Kottke. These words apparently have meaning on the planet I am currently visiting.
And if you want to give yourself a slow burn (of course you do! We’re political junkies, after all), have a browse through regulations.gov. Kevin Williamson of NRO helpfully points to the regulations controlling what you can and cannot do with an imported monkey (good news! You can give him cocaine!).
Annnnnnd….that’s it! Uncle B spotted a rat in the henhouse tonight, so we’ve been out shoring up the edges of the run with bricks. I have paving slabs laid down as a floor, but there was a gap just big enough for the little bastard to tunnel in. A rat can kill a sleeping chicken, though he was probably going after their food dish.
Posted: May 26th, 2011 under animals, birds.
Comments: 19
Comments
Comment from EastAsia
Time: May 26, 2011, 10:09 pm
Aww. Just like that cute pic of Øbama as a tot, in his Halloween costume…it makes you feel all conflicted inside.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: May 26, 2011, 10:22 pm
Strange, you can easily see the adult in that pic.
Comment from EastAsia
Time: May 26, 2011, 10:28 pm
Makes you wonder—what if his dad had loved him more? his mom toilet trained him properly?
Talking about the Schickelgruber kid, of course.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: May 26, 2011, 11:06 pm
As I said to The Weasel, it calls to mind that favourite old ethical question – if you could go back in time, would it be moral to kill the infant Hitler?
Comment from Oldcat
Time: May 26, 2011, 11:55 pm
More kittys! They’ll fix that rat.
Comment from Oldcat
Time: May 26, 2011, 11:57 pm
Uncle Badger – better off going for the infant Neville Chamberlain.
Comment from Mark Matis
Time: May 27, 2011, 12:17 am
Hey, SWeas:
Find a way to keep the chicklets awake and they’ll EAT that rat!
Comment from Sven in Colorado
Time: May 27, 2011, 1:54 am
Broken families and childhoods create broken people. I know only too well.
The correlation twixt Hilter and the ‘Bamster is way too spooky.
Time will tell…and we have a full eighteen months here to make that decision.
(Unless the Mayan Calendar is right and we all die on the Winter Solstice!!!!……..OMG,Onozzzz!…..OMG, Onozzzz!)
<—–runz around in circle poking a sharp stick in his ear
🙂
Comment from David Bain
Time: May 27, 2011, 5:50 am
His chubby little face reminded me that I read somewhere that the Austrians are the world’s greatest spin-doctors. They’ve managed to sell the world for seventy years that he was German!
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 27, 2011, 6:24 am
Oh, yeah? Who convinced the world that the hated poop-monster geese named after John Canada are, instead, Canadian?
Comment from steve
Time: May 27, 2011, 12:08 pm
Strange, you can easily see the adult in that pic.
I think it is the Moe Howard haircut that transcends the intervening years….
Comment from steve
Time: May 27, 2011, 12:13 pm
As I said to The Weasel, it calls to mind that favourite old ethical question – if you could go back in time, would it be moral to kill the infant Hitler?
The classical false dilemma. If you COULD go back in time, your options for intervening would extend far beyond the two, to kill or not to kill, options…
You could have bought the kid a pony….or you could have gotten him addicted to porn, or something….
Comment from Mono The Elderish
Time: May 27, 2011, 6:16 pm
Actually, On the time travel thing, I don’t believe it’s ethical to change anything. even the bad stuff. Because if you think about it, Alot of technological advances were spured by the need and the over all effect of removing the advances would be a lower quality of life. Plus if we can do it. so can the libby’s and think of how much they could fuck up if they wanted….
Comment from Scubafreak
Time: May 27, 2011, 9:42 pm
Did anyone have Jeff Conaway in the Dead Pool?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1391649/Grease-star-Jeff-Conaway-dead-60.html
Comment from Oceania
Time: May 28, 2011, 4:36 am
Mein Fuhrer!
Comment from Ric Locke
Time: May 28, 2011, 3:11 pm
One of the Laws of Life is that baby anything is virtually certain to be “cute”. This is a matter of survival, at least for placental mammals. If adults weren’t basically well-disposed toward babies, few children would survive the first two o’clock feeding and the species would die out.
Picturing Mrs. Dzugashvili saying “coo-coo” to the infant Josip is still a bit hard.
Regards,
Ric
Comment from David Gillies
Time: May 28, 2011, 10:50 pm
Re rats in the henhouse: you should get an air rifle. While you’re out in the garden you can plink at rats.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 28, 2011, 10:59 pm
Oh, we have an air rifle, and Uncle B would dearly love to plink rats. Rats, however, have other ideas. They’re shy. We’ve only caught the one glimpse.
Comment from James T Cook
Time: May 29, 2011, 1:55 am
Ratis on your ship?
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