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#Caturday July 6, 2013: Supercat shows cool tricks – Суперкот показывает крутые трюки
by 1389AD ( 115 Comments › )Filed under Caturday, Open thread, Russia at July 6th, 2013 - 5:00 pm
#Caturday June 29, 2013: Momo the cat becomes a celebrity after Alberta floods
by 1389AD ( 116 Comments › )Filed under Canada, Caturday, Open thread at June 29th, 2013 - 5:00 pm
Kevan Yeats with his cat Momo at his parent’s house near Okotoks, Alberta on June 21, 2013. Yeats and Momo narrowly avoided death when they leapt from Yeats’ truck in flowing flood waters in High River, Alberta on Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jordan Verlage
o.canada.com has the story:
As with most disasters, the floods that have washed out Calgary and large parts of southern Alberta have produced an animal hero.
Photographer Jordan Verlage captured an incredible escape from a sinking vehicle on Thursday as Kevan Yeats and his cat Momo squeezed through the back window of a pickup truck and swam to safety in the streets of High River, Alberta.
The photos were published across Canada and even made it onto the websites of NBC News and the London Times.
You’d think swimming through the streets would be a worse fate than drowning for the cat, but apparently Momo is quite the accomplished swimmer.
According to Verlage, Momo regularly paddles around the bathtub at home.
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From the Canadian PressOKOTOKS — The owner of a cat that gained international fame after leaping from a submerged pickup truck into Alberta floodwaters says he was surprised at how eagerly the feline took to the rushing water.
Kevan Yeats says while Momo would sometimes go for a brief paddle in his bathtub, he had no idea the cat would plunge into the water and nimbly swim across a flooded street to dry land.
Yeats says he and Momo were riding in his truck when it hit a deep spot and was subsumed by the overflowing Highwood River in High River on Thursday.
He says he quickly smashed out the back window of the vehicle’s cab before hopping into the truck bed with the eight-month-old cat in his arms.
Momo then took the initiative, jumping into the water and paw-paddling to safety.
The moment was captured by a photographer with The Canadian Press in images that went viral and garnered international media attention as a symbol of hope amidst the devastating flooding.
Yeats followed in the cat’s wake and they both made it to shore and were pulled to safety, with Momo making a beeline to shelter underneath a tree.
Yeats, a ranch worker, had gone back home just to rescue Momo and said they were making their escape from the flooding when the vehicle was swept away.
He said when the water finally gushed into the truck’s cab one thought rushed into his mind: “Leave everything else behind but save everything that’s alive.”
Yeats said despite Momo’s playful dips in his bathtub, the cat’s swim that day shocked him.
“She’s quite the swimmer. She loves water — but I didn’t know she could swim that far.”
Photo of the day
by 1389AD ( 115 Comments › )Filed under Art, Cult of Obama, Open thread at June 28th, 2013 - 5:00 pm
ShankaPOTUS: Is he incompetent at everything?
by 1389AD ( 17 Comments › )Filed under Barack Obama, Golf, Open thread at June 23rd, 2013 - 8:00 pm
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Barack Obama’s golf swing reveals he’s an athlete, a duffer and fun to play withBy Michael Bamberger
Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated
Published: December 24, 2008Golf.com has performed an important service. It has posted five photographs, taken by AP photographer Gerald Herbert, that shows President-elect Barack Obama on vacation in Hawaii playing golf. This is invaluable as we all know that nothing, not even a CNN special called “Obama Revealed,” reveals the soul as ruthlessly and efficiently as how one plays the old Scottish game.
John F. Kennedy nearly made a hole-in-one on the short par-3 15th at Cypress Point (the best-smelling hole in all of golf, if you like the mix of eucalyptus and brackish ocean water) while running for the presidency in 1960. Kennedy, considered by presidential golfing historians to be by far the most skilled of our golf-playing presidents, was relieved to see the ball stay out. He was trying to succeed Dwight Eisenhower as president, and not as First Golfer. The game then wasn’t the populist activity it has become.
Kennedy, foolishly, allowed himself to be photographed taking a golf swing in fancy loafers, no socks. Still, he won West Virginia.
But Obama does not have to run from his golf. The guess here is that he’s an athlete and a duffer and fun to play with.
In Photo No. 1, the first thing that strikes you is that Obama is a lefthanded golfer who plays golf wearing a watch, just like Phil Mickelson. Also like Lefty, the future president wears his watch on his left hand. One reason golfers will wear watches while playing is that it helps give them a visual for a hand position — the hinging of the hand and wrist — at the top of the swing. President-elect Obama, on the other hand, likely wants to know what time it is. Which is a good thing.
Photo No. 2 shows Obama with one of his staffers, Eugene Kang. Looks like a smart, young affable guy, maybe something like the character Charlie Young on “The West Wing,” who always had President Martin Sheen’s suit jacket ready. Whatever Kang’s responsibilities may be, they evidently include being not just golf partner but caddie, as he appears to be carrying both a lefthanded putter and a righthanded one.
Photo No. 3 indicates that, as a golfer Obama is taking a page from 41. That is, he’s warming up with a short iron. Sure, he could skip the 8-iron and go straight to the driver, let the big dog eat, give the crowd a thrill and while he’s at it take out a little Rod Blago aggression. But it wouldn’t be prudent. As Tiger likes to say, “Take baby steps.” Superb knee flex, it should be noted. He looks like a basketball player.
In Photo No. 4, Obama’s follow-through is not a thing of beauty, but there’s much to admire here: the cargo shorts (nothing says regular-joe golfer like cargo shorts), the little baseball cap that brings to mind the little caps worn by touring everyman Joe Durant, the casual pushed-down socks. We might need golf fashion guru Woody Hochswender to explain the pushed-down sock look and who it works for and why, but in any event the president-elect is not looking like a man who is taking his vacation golf too seriously. Which is an accomplishment itself.
In Photo No. 5, Obama has gotten a ball airborne and is admiring its flight. Who can’t relate to that?
Enjoy it while you can, sir.
Obama’s Great Moments In Golf
Published on Mar 9, 2013 by muttonbuster
Per White House Press Secretary: The President’s first shot was actually a beautifully executed fade to hit an errant seagull. His last shot was the result of Obama’s caddie handing him an XS shafted pitching wedge vs his usual regular. Seriously.
