when_ambition_outpaces_reality
birdmad
the
night
before
last
,
i
woke
up
at
about
4
:00
AM
to
find
tonya
straddling
my
right
leg
at
the
top
of
my
ankle
and
biting
my
shin
for
no
other
apparently
good
reason
than
full
-on
kitty
-freak-out
I
can't
imageine
what
the
runty
little
weirdo
seemed
to
be
thinking
other
than
that
for
a
moment
she
must
have
belived
she
was
one
of
her
larger
rainforest
or
veldtland
cousins
and
could
take
me
off
below
the
knee
or
something
tonya
...
appartment-sized
predator
and
queen
of
the
litterbox
.
freak
.
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badjonni
superman
uber
menschen
california
uber
alles
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...
history teaches us
during
the
world
war
I
the
allies
(
britain
,
france
and
russia
)
sought
an
arab
allie
who
would
help
them
battle
the
ottoman
empire
(
then
allied
with
germany
and
the
austrio-hungary
empire
).
they
though
they
had
found
it
in
the
sharif
of
mecca (
the
most
prestigious
position
within
the
arab-islamic
world
).
the
sharif
of
mecca
was
a
man
who
claimed
descent
from
the
prophet
mohammed
but
in
rality
was
just
and
ambitious
man
who
disliked
the
committee
of
union
and
progress
(
the
ottoman
government
)
and
wished
for
a
different
arab kingom
with
his
family
as
the
ruling dynasty.
he
agreed
to
work
with
the
british
and
promote
an
arab revolt
against
the
ottoman
empire
as
britain
had
promised
they
would
recognize
an
independent
arab
state
and
a
caliphate
should
one
be
claimed
at
the
end
of
the
war
.
the
arab revolt
although
it
failed
to
promote
anti-ottoman sentiments
within
the
majority
of
the
world
of
islam
,
did
manage
to
capture
the
city
of
damascus
in
october
1
,
1918
.
however
,
at
the
end
of
the
war
,
britain
failed
to
live
to
its
part
of
the
agreemtn
as
most
of
the
arab lands
had
already
been
divided
between
britain
and
france
and
even
a
so
-called
jewish
national homeland
in
palestine
.
the
allied
powers
had
betrayed
the
foolish
sharif.
a
perfect
example
of
how
ambition
outpaces
reality
.
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