007 ... Leap Year 2008 or Die

"Opening Theme Music"

Just as stolen art, my canvass is painted on the run. The evil syndicate of Irish smugglers had used the Mona Lisa to purchase atomic weaponry. This is my story ... Bond, Speedcat Bond.

I ordered a grapefruit juice martini, and shook it.
My next step was to play poker against the Irish thugs, and crush them with my card playing debonair. Look out!!

I played my cards, and bluffed every hand. Most thought I was an idiot. Then came my shining moment ... with a Royal Flush, I bet "Five Billion" dollars... and won. An attempt was made on my life. With my cat-like quickness, I dodged 8 bullets, and received only a rip in my tuxedo. The Irish made a break for it.

I followed them to the harbor, where the chase continued to Bond island .... off the coast of Argentina



The suspects hid in the military - like facility that was inside tons of lava rock. The plan to dominate the world was falling to pieces, and the atomic bomb could not save them. I remained cool .... although it was hot, and I took off my shirt.

After a massive covert swoop attack, I had recovered the Mona Lisa and the bomb - loaded up the boat and headed back to Hollydale.

This all could have been avoided if leap year was in 2009 .....

More theme music .... do doo do doooo do do doooo

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Please take a copy :-) / I will protect your blog too...

Speedy's Challange Golf Ultimate World Showdown

When you think of the greatest places to play, Pebble Beach, Augusta, St. Andrews and the like often come to mind. Here is a different (and unusual) listing of great places to play. I have only been to one of these destinations.


The Bridges
San Fransisco
Playing to nearly 7,000 yards from the tips, the Bridges Golf Club reflects a stimulating design precept that distance is one element, and risk / reward ball flight options make this course interesting to play, and a beauty to behold. Many carries over natural canyons allow for strategic course management. Do not play here if you are afraid of heights!

More information: Bridges Golf Course



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Eagle Trace Golf Club
Minnesota
When it comes to dangerous golf, Eagle Trace is the scariest course I know. If you are not hitting the ball on target, you will find disaster is only one errant shot away. I have never played this course without a high score on one or two holes. Unlike any other course I play, the design is full of tight, water laden, tree lined holes with island greens and multi - level fairways. I get a knot in my gut just thinking about it. Think you are playing well? Play this course from the back tees. The last picture is me, playing my second shot to the elevated island green on #11. Hit the green or else. There is also an aerial shot of this hole above.

For more information: Eagle Trace

Mission Hills Golf Club
China
The world's largest golf course destination is at Mission Hills Golf Club. 216 holes stretch across thousands of acres. With 12 resort and championship courses - designed by the likes of Nick Faldo, Greg Norman and David Duval, Mission Hills is serious sensory overload for golf fanatics. If you can't find enough golf here, you have a serious problem.
For more information: Mission Hills Golf Club

Coober Pedy Club
Australia
Make your way to the small mining town of Coober Pedy in South Australia, where there's not a blade of grass or a stitch of greenery in sight at the Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club. Opal mining is the chief business here, and most residents live in a subterranean world of tunnels and caves to escape the Outback's searing temperatures (very hot). The golf course itself is basically one enormous sand trap that must be oiled with grease lest it blow away in the dry desert winds, and golfers tote swatches of faux grass from hole to hole to ease teeing off.

For more information: Coober Pedy Golf

World Ice Golf Championship
Greenland
Each spring on a tiny island in Northern Greenland, the World Ice Golf Championship lures hardy fanatics for a chance to tee off atop moving ice floes in the High Arctic tundra. The annual event takes place in Santa Claus territory—370 miles north of the Arctic Circle, near the town of Uummannaq, where glaciers groan and icebergs bob around a nine-hole course cut from the snow and ice just before play commences. Since the greens are white, the balls are painted red.

For more information: World Ice Golf Championship

Lajitas, The Ultimate Hideout
Texas
Indulge your cowboy golf fantasies at the deservedly named "Lajitas". The Ultimate Hideout ... this is a 25,000-acre resort isolated in western Texas, some 300 miles from El Paso along the banks of the Rio Grande. The 19-hole course dubbed "the Ambush" features four holes set on an island in the Rio Grande and a bonus hole that involves a shot across the mighty river into Mexico—making Lajitas the world's only trans-national golf course. Cool!

For more information: Lajitas

Rotorua Golf Club
New Zealand
The antithesis of Australia's arid environment awaits across the Tasman Sea in New Zealand, where you can slice the Southern Hemisphere skies in the thermal hot spot of Rotorua. The Rotorua Golf Club features an 18 hole, links style, par 69 course, as well as a nine hole course where bubbling mud pools, steam vents, steaming creeks and rushing geysers make for otherworldly obstacles.

For more information: Rotorua Golf Club

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Fishing with Speedcat at Hormone Lake

"I decided a few days ago that I am tired of ridiculous silly posts, that are all fictitious made up stories with my face photo-shopped in everywhere. I have embarked on a new voyage - one that has a captain of merit, and a destination to ports all across the globe to report, discern, differentiate, discuss, and mostly learn a few things about the world ... and about myself. I had to leave the old methods and posting mannerisms behind. I truly hope that you will enjoy my new serious style of writing here at the Speedcat Hollydale Page"

The sun rose with a brilliant glow.

The sun is up, and it's time to see if the stories are true. Hormone Lake is along side an old abandon medical plant, that specialized in female growth hormones. It is said that some odd and gigantic water creatures are pulled up here every day. Locals warned me not to eat anything caught, because my chest would become smooth and bulging. Nobody wants that! I like mine the way it is .... fuzzy and wrinkled like and old hamburger bun.

Here is the first fish of the day! A 70 pounder. I threw him back, and quickly washed my hands. I had a sudden urge for a manicure too .... strange?!?

This second fish reminded me of my first girlfriend. She was always talking and licking my ear.

Here I am on the shore doing a story for KARE 11 News. Behind me is a 1200 pound Camelback Skeewanee. The natives say that the "Mother of all Fish" at Hormone Lake is a 8000lbs Camelback that has been sighted many times in the bay area. Comparatively speaking, that's the same size as a Beluga Whale.

Until next time, I will be watching closely to make sure I don't grow hooters.

OOmpa LOOmpa

My good friend Auntie Janice thinks that Oompa Loompas are orange with green hair .... ohhh so funny!!!!

Ice Snakes with Melted Freezie Pops

As climate change warms America, massive Burmese pythons could become indigenous to the bottom half of the US. This is from the U.S. Geological Survey maps released Wednesday. Why are they here in the first place? People have them as pets! Of course, they don't always remain in the house. Check this out ... Burmese Python

The USGS and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are "investigating the range of nine invasive snakes in Florida, concerned about the danger they now pose to endangered species". They examined Burmese pythons first and, based on where they live in Asia, estimated where they might live here. One map shows where the pythons could live today, and then the same area that expands North when scientists use global warming models for 2100.

Large snakes for pets? Yes, let's back up a bit here. I will never understand the lure of this, or will I ever understand a picture like the one above. A customer from last week had countless snakes in his house, including anaconda. He raised rats and rabbits as well .... NOT as pets. You can get in some major trouble for harming a cat, how is it that feeding live rabbits to a snake is alright. Something has got to be wrong with this picture(s).


OK, there is one odd start... a "snake and global warming combo package". Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change? Are temperatures on the planet getting warmer? Think about your answer, then move on.

According to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveal that almost all the allegedly "lost" ice has come back.
A Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual. Read about the ICECAP.
Remember the photograph of polar bears clinging on to a melting iceberg? This has been widely hailed as proof of the need to fight climate change, and has been used by former Vice President Al Gore during his "An Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind's alleged impact on the global climate. Global warming theorists love pictures of melting ice and snow.

Gore failed to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of August when melting is normal, or that the polar bear population has soared in recent years. **note (This is not the actual photo)

Scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has endured it's coldest winter in decades. Winter here has been brutally cold - below zero more times than I can count. You can even find theorists that say another ice age is on the way. I know, you have seen countless shows and movies creating alarm over global warming, and they are very convincing. You can also find huge scientific proof that global warming is not fact at all. If your knowledge of global warming issues come from the media, you are only seeing one side of the coin. You can pick certain data to prove almost anything.

Do you think that we are doomed to a planet of ever rising temperatures? Are we headed for another ice age? Does Mother Nature just fluctuate with a natural cycle? It is important to note that the only real source of heat on Earth is the sun .... that is proven to go through cycles of polarity, radiation, and energy output. What about CO2 .... Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide are examined and shown in detail. Check out the information and graphs from this link. They are quite amazing, and show many that correlate directly to sun cycle vs. temperature / CO2 level and greenhouse effect.

So, what is the concept of all I have set forth here? I am not saying that pollution isn't a problem, not at all; but the realities of what is truth about global warming are not as clear. In fact, the whole idea may be just a fabricated story of alarm. Why? - the answer lies in political power, and of course .... MONEY. Inconvenient Thermometers?? A conference in NYC is featuring hundreds of scientists and meteorologists on the 'other' side of the global warming debate. You know, the ones who don't say the science is settled---the ones Al Gore claims don't exist. One of them is meteorologist Anthony Watts, who while doing some research on the actual thermometers that read the temperatures in the U.S., noticed a disturbing trend. Thermometer after thermometer was placed on asphalt, near air conditioner vents or other equipment that was a source of heat, thus skewing temps sometimes as much as 4 degrees. See the pictures here. Anthony and Glenn Beck talk about the lunacy: Read the transcript. (Insiders listen here).

Thoughts? I know you have one!! Let's hear what the blogoshere has to say.

Magnanimous Rabbits are for Kids

I usually work weekends. This never used to bother me much, but it seems that I long for something to look forward to. Friday night?? "Meaningless". Tonight when I finally walked in the door to my little shack in Hollydale, I wondered .... should I go off commenting, create a post, just watch some tube for a bit? hmmmm .... too tough to answer. I ended up making this picture. What is it that catches your eye? Anyone for a quick critique? A few might recognize "Triple Basketball Neck Fatcat in Yorkshire". One of my very first (and cherished) creations, This was part of a bloging trilogy over a year ago. True fans will google basketball neck. or click here. Me, I would not go that far to impress a cat. Have you ever noticed that a cat will curiously watch your every move, yet will not listen to anyone? Friendly and bird loving creatures they are.
With about 10 minutes of energy left, I think I'll eat a yogurt cup in bed. I like yogurt! {Melee melee}

I should have made a post. Maybe I will tomorrow :~)

Speedcat Salutes the Blogosphere! (that's you)

I will make this formal statement here at the Hollydale Ranch. I am running for President of the United States. Sure, there have been rumors about my mental stability, but let me assure you that I am of sound mind and body. This has been proved by the Valentine Video shown below.
To let you get a glimps into the mind of your new political candidate, I have used my super telephoto lens on my Sanyo "Slimline" phone to capture this close-up view, never before seen on the internet.


Please use Mr. Linky to cast your votes in my Independent Primary!

Mimi's Messege in a Bottle Meme

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In a Bottle across the Blog Ocean. Leave a message in the sand or on the bottle. Write anything you wish. Be a pirate or a poet. Serious or silly. Anonymous or not.
What message would you like to send out to the universe?
Mimi's Message In a Bottle Meme
1. Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle.
2. Right click and SAVE the blank graphic below

Hi Mimi!
3. Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture
4. Post the Message In a Bottle meme and your creation on your blog along with these rules
5. Tag a minimum of 5 bloggers - or your entire blogroll - to do the same. Notify them of the tag.Your virtual bottle will remain afloat in the blogosphere ocean for all blogernity (That's a Mimism for blog + eternity.)

Mimi says: "ADD your site to the Mr. Linky list and place your blog's name and url in a comment HERE TO LET ME KNOW YOU'VE COMPLETED THE MEME. I will add it to the master list of message bottles. Email mimiwrites2005 at yahoo.com if you have questions."

Go HERE to see all the bottles floating in the blog ocean. The site is called Message In a Bottle.

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Simple! just copy/paste were shown, then follow the directions

Here is my very own entry!

Mimi's tags:Sandee at Comedy Plus, Dating Profile of the Day, Bond's Big Leather Couch , Crazy Working Mom, Coffee2Go, Hammer , Julie's Jewels and Junque , Lyn's' Last Minute Life , Speedcat Hollydale Page, Gill's Jottings, Lee at Tarheel Ramblings, 1 Million Love Messages, A Word In Edgewise, Airhead55, Turnbaby, Bud at WTIT, Are We There Yet? And Miles To Go Before We Sleep, Anndi's Luggage, Anyhow Blogs, Asara's Mental Meanderings, Matt-Man, Carver's Site Or Is That Sight?, Colloquium, Daisy The Curly Cat, Desert Songbird, Diary of A Heretic, Dixie's Heart and Soul, Dr. Anonymous, Duward Discussion, Everything and Nothing, Frank's Honk 'n Hollr, Friday Night Fish Fry, Hahn at Home, Happy Tiler, Here Comes A Storm, Home In France, I AmWoman, See Me Blog! It's a Blog Eat Blog World, Julie Pippert, Late Bloomer Boomer, Meowers From Missouri, Miss Maggie Moo Talks 2 U, Empress Bee, My Life Is Murphy's Law, My View Of It, Nick's Bytes, Nola Dawn, Odat Mumbles, Olga The Traveling Bra, Queenie's Random Ramblings, Screw Perfection, The Starr Ann Chronicles, Trav's Thoughts, Wading Through My Stream of Consciousness, Wonderland Or Not

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Netster and Jesse the Cat you are both next on my list!! .....

Restroom - O - Doom

Love Boat Dazzle Dancers in "SpeedyCat ValenCat"

Video footage from my Valentines Day has been leaked to the blogoshere. Not for the weak, be forwarned that this contains graphic images (Nekid Speedcat). To view - CLICK HERE or above - (right click to open in a new window)

Special thanks to my good pal Drowsey Monkey for directing this short film.

Natural Wonders in Cooperstand Island

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the beach.
In Hawaii, the most common questions often yield surprising answers. For example, which came first, the chicken or the egg? The Hawaiian answer is the demigod Maui, son of Hina, the mother of the Hawaiian people:
“Hina-of-the-fire conceived,a fowl was born
The child of Hina was delivered in the shape of an egg
She had not slept with a fowl
But a fowl was born
The child chirped, Hina was puzzled
Not from sleeping with a man didthis child come
It was a strange child for Hina-of-the-fire.”

Recorded history suggests the first settlers in Hawaii probably arrived around 500 A.D., according to most archaeologists who also agree they came from the Marquesas Islands and brought the first chickens to Hawaii with them.
The chicken is as Hawaiian as the Hawaiians are!
Five hundred years later the first Tahitians landed in Hawaii beginning a whole new era of cultural migration and bringing with them much larger chickens and more colorful roosters.
It is here the Wild Roosters of Oahu began their Thousand Years Free Reign over the Aina unlike any other animal... mythological or natural. The rooster became known as "Moa Kane" and is so immersed in Hawaiian culture that, like the proverbial forest and trees, the impact this ubiquitous barnyard bird has had on Hawaii is often difficult to cull from daily life.
Chickens were even among the gifts islanders gave Captain Cook. He thought chickens were feathered pirates.

Special thanks to Knox Richardson
Rumor has it that This Bra may have a chicken or 2 in the cups ... we shall see

Do you have any thing too add? (*** This does not count as another WCT because there are words here***)

Rommecat & Juliet Motecappulate

Juliet: Dost en a Capulate? Whomever-est thine eyes shine upon thee.

Rommecat: Your family stinks ... go away. Gosh, kinda cute though!

Juliet: Rommecat, Rommecat, where fort art thouest Rommecat???
Rommecat: Here I am. Even though I am supposed hate you, a find a burning desire. Is it wrong to love!!!

Juliet: Taketh me to the parlor Rommecat! You nomenclature you...
Rommecat: Well, OK. Make sure my cousins are not looking. If loving you is wrong, I DON'T WANT TO BE RIGHT! Booyhaaa

Jerk Guy Capulate: You werest in bedding with a Montegue. Surley you will live no longesteth. On gaurd.
Rommecat: Whatever .... AHHHH!!! I am stabbed (sigh)

Juliet: Mine love mine love, I cannot liveth without-eth you-eth. I shall drink poison from the death flask.
Rommecat: "Nothing"

Rommecat: I'm not dead .... I am alive! Ohh my goodness dear juliet .... WHY ..... WHYYY!!!!!!

Juliet: "Nothing"

Juliet: I dost thinketh thine death juice was kool aid from another jar... I am alive againest!
Rommecat: Hot Dog!!! Lets marry and get a cat. They are hiring at the orchard.

Thy Montague tale of unrequeted love ! "Oh, bloggy" ! Allest that endeth well is well indeed. Oh no...Timmy just fell down the well. Go for help Lassie.

The End

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