Ronin Profile: K T Cat

K T Cat

Let’s meet some more IMAO readers. Today, it’s K T Cat.


What’s the story behind your name? K T is a pleasant, little tuxedo cat who has lived with me for years. I’m not one of those catbloggers who thinks cats can talk, but I can tell you that we are very close friends. When I started blogging, I decided I wanted an anonymous name and so I used hers. Now I use it for everything on line. She doesn’t seem to mind.
Where do you live? Sunny San Diego!
How old are you? My first vote was for President Reagan in 1980. It was glorious.
Tell us briefly about yourself. I’m a single dad who likes to work on cars, coach sports, suffer along with New Orleans Saints football and blog.
How long have you been reading IMAO? For years! I was bored one day and started checking out the blogroll on Scrappleface. I came across yours, something like four or five years ago, and got hooked. Thanks for the laughs, all of you.
[You’re welcome! -Ed.]
What’s your favorite IMAO post? Anything with the Rumsfeld Strangler. I got to brief Donald Rumsfeld once and he was a sharp and funny guy. There were reporters present and only a few of them ended up strangled. I got to give interviews to the remaining ones after he left.
[You’re the coolest person ever! -Ed.]
If you were to describe IMAO in three words, what would those be? Buy Papal Indulgences. Really, Frank, we’re all going to need them. After what you’ve written? Better see if we can get a bulk rate. (Hint: violence, for the most part, is a sin. Funny, but still a sin.)
What’s you favorite political issue? It’s not a political issue but a social one. As a single parent, I am trying to raise two children with about 60% of the money and 40% of the time as a married couple. I can’t do it as well as they can. Try doing anything with that much less time and money and see what you get. Roughly speaking, single parent households have $40,000 and 2000 labor hours less than two parent households, annually. The Democrats want to replace this with a $1000 raise for my kids’ teachers and the Republicans want to give me a $500 tax credit. I’m out $40,000 and 2000 labor hours and you think your proposals are going to make a difference?
What we need from our politicians is for them to say, “We’re not going to waste everyone else’s tax dollars on something we can’t do anything about. You’ve screwed yourselves and you need to take care of it on your own.” One of the reasons I like Fred so much is that he seems to get it. Every social pathology in the country correlates more strongly with single parent households than anything else and it’s not even close. It’s not a debatable statement, it’s a mathematical fact. If you want a smaller prison population, less crime, less poverty, more literacy and all the rest, the solution is your family, not politics.
Do you have a website? If so, please tell us briefly about it. I blog at The Scratching Post. I started blogging because I had time in strange increments and at odd hours and I couldn’t think of any other way to make a little cash. It’s been a total wash financially, but it’s been a lot of fun. The ‘Post is now my motivation for learning and discovering.
If you could grow to fifty times your normal size, what would you do with that power? That sounds horrid. I’d get a gastric bypass and quick. I’d probably be washing myself with a sponge on the end of a stick, too. What was that? It’s a super power? What kind of a super power is that? I’d see if I could trade it with Aquaman. Talking to fish would be more useful than crushing my house every time I wanted to check the mailbox. Could you imagine what that would do to your insurance premiums?


If you commented in the last post asking for participants, you’re still in the running. Thanks to everyone who has participated so far; just because you may not think you’re interesting doesn’t mean we won’t enjoy your story.

Daily John Edwards Fabulous Fact

john edwards fabulous.jpgToday’s Fact is from Jim:
It took many days, but John Edwards’s advisers finally talked him out of using his original campaign slogan: “Don’t hate me ‘cuz I’m beautiful!”
Bonus Fact from Harvey:
Kelly LeBrock hates John Edwards.

An Idea Worth Exploring?

Rumor has it that US snipers in Iraq are using fake weapons and bomb-making materials as bait, and then killing terrorists who picks up the items. The pro-defeat lobby seems to have a problem with this.
Not me.
In fact, I can see how this principle can be adapted and applied to target other irksome critters, like baiting:
* Journalists with fake memos.
* Ted Kennedy with a campaign worker who can tread water.
* Moonbats with an opportunity to be tasered for YouTube.
* Bill Clinton with an intern completely lacking in “tobacco-free zones”.
* Elton John with kiddie porn avant-garde art.
* Senator Craig with wide-stanced loafers.
* Michael Moore with… well, ANY saturated-fat based product. A brick slathered in lard would work fine.
* John Edwards with a can of Aqua-Net (stand by with a flaming arrow on this one).
* Alec Baldwin with Canadian citizenship.
* UPDATE: apparently that one doesn’t work.
* Hillary with a gold ring inscribed with cryptic runes in an ancient Elvin tongue.
* Obama with an explosive device cleverly diguised as black street cred.


If you’ve got any other ideas, I’d love to hear ’em.

Lazy Surrendercrats

So the Dems hate the war and want it over, but none of the Democrat front runners in last night’s would guarantee that they’d be out of Iraq by the end of his or her first term, 2013.
Let me get this straight: The Iraq war is a mistake. We’ve lost. We have to pull out now… but we’re still not sure we’ll be out of there by 2013.
These guys need lessons from the French on being much more decisive about losing wars.
Anyway, I think the nutroots are starting to realize none of the candidates are serious about ending the war (who wants that huge loss on their hands?). Thus the nutroots’ descent into irrelevancy continues.

We Don’t Like People Who Don’t Take Pride in Our Country

Katie Couric said that using “we” when referring to America makes her uncomfortable. That’s stupid and I hate her. I love saying “we” when talking about America because it allows me to say lots of things that I could not say only about myself:
We are the richer and more powerful than all others.
We can destroy any country we feel like.
We landed on the moon, suckas!
America is freaking awesome. We collected the best people from all over the world into one country so we can totally rule at absolutely everything. Scientists have determined that America is by far the most awesome country they have discovered existing in the three spatial and one temporal dimensions. Who would not want to be associated with that? And it’s not like rooting for some local football team, because we’re all actually a part of it. That rules.
I guess some people think America is so mind-boggingly super-fantastic that they feel the need to apologize to the citizens of lesser countries for how our awesomeness makes them appear even more pathetic. That’s dumb. People from other countries should apologize to us for sucking so badly. Sometimes how much their countries suck interferes with our awesomeness, like Mexico. We want them to prostrate before us and say, “Oh glorious Americans, we are sorry for how much our country sucks and how it disturbs your unbelievable awesomeness.”
And we can say, “That’s okay. We know you’re trying hard, and we will not raze your country… for now.”
That’s the proper order of things. It also reminds me of another pronoun I like to use: “They.”
“They” is what I call all the terrorists, evil foreigners, and liberals.
They are bad.
They should be rounded up and brought to Gitmo and beaten with rubber hoses.
They smell and I hate them.
You can combine “we” with “they” for even better statements.
We should destroy them.
Pronouns are awesome! But not as awesome as us.

Daily Fred Thompson Fact

Primitive cultures revere Fred Thompson as the god of death and destruction. It’s believed the cause of this is that many cultures end up primitive after Fred Thompson has destroyed them.