Cats are “pragmatic, down-to-earth, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, realistic” (Merriam Webster). They do not waste any time and brain being idealistic, utopian, visionary staring into a blue sky. Comment by marineavoile / Marine Armstrong: “Always cats need to be where the action is. In the city, it is on our papers in front of our computer screen, in the country, I guess it is on the chopping block. Your cat did tuck his tail away neatly, though, he is no fool!”
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Let’s take the pragmatic cat metaphorical and start a political dialogue related to Obama: Nick Falvo, discussing the term at Merriam Webster asked: “Is President Obama pragmatic? Republicans changed to be antipragmatic,…” very religious, being the ideologues now?
related: Merriam Webster Dictionary: PRAGMATIC
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Flickr Comments 
Haha. I like it! Margie
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i think my dog was visionary, staring out often at the blue sky 🙂
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Okay. Where did his tail go?
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I like the kitty photos!
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Is this is your cat, watching you work [second image]? If it were mine, I’d be very cautious on what I write! What a serious look! …seriously, I love both your photos and your …pragmatic title/comment!
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My cat Emily often bites in my fingers, she seems to be a censor! But my idol is Immanuel Kant,
and he said: Have the courage, to support the strategies of enlightenment – it’s a great European project – and we have to fight for it daily …
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Let us just hope President Obama can tuck away his tail so neatly and safely after the Republican’s finally nominate someone–and the REAL fight begins!
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Frizz, forgive me after a long day, but is this your way of asking if Obama is one cool cat?
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I really hope he will win – I don’t like the tea party …
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Why on earth would you want Obama to win? He should not even be on the ticket until he PROVES his citizenship. Which, with a birth certificate from Hawaii, a social security number from Connecticut, a Kenyan father (knocking him out of Natural born status) and sealed records of both his school and work history, I would think is impossible. Not to mention, the way he has trampled on our Constitution, he should be tried for Treason, not re-elected. When I look at Obama, I see an illegal President that is doing his best to led this Nation into the North American Union. He old of his visions for a New World Order in a speech he made in Germany in 2008. That is hardly the vision an American President should hold. We are a Sovereign Nation and should be fighting to maintain our borders and our freedom. Sorry Fritz, but Obama doesn’t even have the right to be POTUS now, much less in 2012. I am looking forward to seeing Joe Aparios’ findings on Obama when he releases them on March 1.
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we will see,
we should bet,
that the Republicans can’t win
with their retro orthodox
religious campaign
🙂
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about far-right Rick Santorum:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/send-your-medical-bills-t_b_1280626.html?ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=021612&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
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LOL, Frizz, I hate to tell you, I’m a proud “Paulbot”, and as such, my greatest hope for America is the restitution of our Constitution. As far as the rest of the ‘Republican’ Candidates . . . hang ‘um all. They are no better than Obama. Any and all will sidestep our Constitution and our borders (if we let them) in favor of a NWO. But alas, we all still have a right to like who we like. See you out in the blogs. 😉
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Bush organized some bad
changes of the constitution
– less control of banking systems,
less control of military ignoring human rights etc.
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Even the Red Cross is trying to charge Bush with War Crimes. I can’t stand that SOB either. As far as the banking system goes, the Federal Reserve needs to be abolished in favor of Article 1, Section 8 of our Constitution. We would not be swimming in debt today if we would just respect our founding papers.
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We would not be swimming in debt today,
if we would just reduce military goals.
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If we followed our Constitution, we would not be in the Middle East at all, nor would we have been for the past 10 years. The last time the United States ‘declared’ war was in WWII. And if we didn’t have the Federal Reserve to counterfeit the money to fund the wars, they wouldn’t be possible. There again, we need to follow our Constitution, and the only Candidate running that wants to follow it (has always followed it in his floor votes) and will uphold his oath to defend and protect it is Ron Paul. That is why I am always defending Dr. Paul, because he is the only one that really defends our rights. You should check him out. 😉 See you out there in blog world!.
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sometimes, indeed, it is necessary, to get a new president: I waited too long for this:
#German #President Christian #Wulff #Resigns Following Financial #Scandal – it took two months of print and TV media attack to break through – my last twitter statement
https://twitter.com/#!/frizztext
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P.S.:
hi Orples (hopeless?)
I like the fresh discussions OBAMA vs. RON PAUL in your blog:
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If you are not familiar with Ron Paul, seriously, check him out. Main Stream media will either try to make him look like a kook, ignore him, or cheat him out of his ‘actual’ popularity among the masses. If Ron Paul were to win the 2012 election, the ‘establishment’ would be brought to their knees. Thanks for visiting and sharing your views. It is always a pleasure.
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Like it! Greetings, http://wp.me/1XrXs
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Is the cat named Obama too or is that yours? 😉
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the name of this cat perhaps is …Robespierre?? [comment by fratella]
frizz: or Barack Obama, Wilhelm Tell, Garibaldi, Genghis Khan?
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Or Machiavelli? 😆
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this cat is a really BASTA! cat. it is not my sensible desk top cat Emily (Dickinson). it is a rough, very pragmatic cat in the neighborhood of my daughter in Bavaria. she is not living in a house. to proud for that. now in winter, snow is there, she had the idea to rest over night in the little houses built for the birds. we could not practice a photo, you can see during the night only a black fur ball in the house, resting on the birds’ food. but I think, it is really curios! he (Pauli is his name) has a straight forward macho Machiavellian character!
cat PAULI in the morning, leaving the little wooden bird house, where he sleeps at night …
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our own cat prefers to stay in the warm living room;
watch the photo with our big (double) cat EMILY
walking the line on her daily comfort desk top patrol
– with small family in the background mirror:
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I knew it… I could see it in his eyes… what eyes? 😆
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Oops! Comment below belongs up here… See I’m already being manipulated! Darn! I knew it… I could see it in his eyes… what eyes? 😆
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