He's a maniac, and he eats clarinets!

[rain_gryphon]

Alexandra, to her evident regret, managed to catch a flying stinkbug.

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In a way, I'm almost sorry that I have no mice. She's a mighty hunter, and would, I believe, be a capital mouser. She's learning to snap treats out of the air, and gets them more often than not.

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So, time to bomb, it seems. I'm pleased that the President held firm against the people who wanted to launch a more general attack and degrade Asshat's military capability. We need him, unfortunately. His is the last secular faction still standing.

This was probably an acceptable trade from Asshat's perspective. He got the job done, and broke the terrorists' back in Douma. I'm guessing that he took fewer casualities, and less damage, this way than if he had refrained from gassing them.

It will be interesting to see how the S-400 air defense system worked. They were certainly launching them - in the few video clips I've seen so far, you can see the fireballs from the rockets climbing, and then, interestingly enough, little sparkly flashes over or near the launch site, that I'm guessing is some sort of gunnery system protecting the missile installations. If, as we claim, we only targetted three facilities, all of them chemical-related, then what was that about? If they thought they had a target, and didn't, then that doesn't speak well of their command and control.

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[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

My cat use to catch flies mid air. Made me cringe.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Alexandra will rarely catch anything (be it treat or flying insect) in her mouth. She's become very skillful at jumping up and trapping it between her paws, though.