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Via Larry Bernard, this, the most unfortunate headline of all time:
“Sheep, two-day parties enliven remote Falkland isles”
Heh.
Tunch and Sid watching the neighborhood dog.
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I forgot to point you to this earlier- Meryl Yourish is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Cats.
Tunch and Sid make appearances.
This 4 o’clock kickoff has me all screwed up, so I took the sister’s dog for another protracted walk (yes, this is the dog I walked with an extension cord). Here is a shot of the fellow:
His name is Irie, he is 13+, and he is beagle/lab mix.
He was always a super sweet dog, but now that he is a little long in the tooth, he has turned into a real pain in the rear. HE has a hard time walking because he is so old, but he has to go out a great deal because his bladder control isn’t what it used to be. He drinks an extraordinary amount of water, and no matter how many times a day I walk him, he finds an excuse to have an accident on the carpet. And I even have pads down for him.
At any rate, my sister has a real tandem- a mean 20lb diabetic cat and a dog that can’t hold his potty. She loves them both to death, though. Thank goodness I only have to watch them on some week-ends.
The Veep made it through surgery ok:
Vice President Dick Cheney successfully underwent medical procedures to repair aneurysms in arteries behind both knees on Saturday, his office said.
Mr. Cheney, 64, was “awake, alert, and comfortable” after the six-hour operation and was due to be briefed on the impact of Hurricane Rita in Louisiana and Texas, as well as the federal, state and local response, according to a statement from his office.
While Dick Cheney was having the pain in his knee removed, a bunch of pain in the asses inserted themselves on the public scene once again as they marched on Washington to fight poverty/imperialism/racism/Israel/war/environmental degradation/Mumia’s shameful imprisonment/you-name it. I am sure you can get your fill of the insanity at any number of right-leaning blogs, but I simply refused to watch. There is football on, and reading the headliners of this ANSWER speaker’s list tells me all I need to know about what went on (h/t Red State):
Jessica Lange, actor
George Galloway, British Member of Parliament
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
Cindy Sheehan
Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder, United Farm Workers of America
Malik Rahim, New Orleans community activist who survived Hurricane Katrina
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
Ralph Nader
Mahdi Bray, Exec. Dir., Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney/co-founder, Partnership for Civil Justice, National Lawyers Guild
Elias Rashmawi, National Council of Arab Americans
Brian Becker, National Coordinator, A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Lynne Stewart, human rights attorney
Rev. Al Sharpton
That is so much concentrated stupid, it is like 6 months worth of the Democratic Underground on one stage. If there is anything to large groups gathering together engaging in Transcendental Meditation to lower crime, I predict this congregation will have a similar effect- the District of Columbia SAT scores will probably drop 40 points come test time.
*** Update ***
Apparently I have upset the delicate sensibilities of some of the readership by calling the aforementioned gaggle of speakers ‘concentrated stupid.’
Concentrated Stupidity at work:
George Galloway: “I said countries occupied by UK and US troops are being raped by them. Jerusalem and Baghdad are in the hands of foreigners who are doing their will.”
You know what? I was going to go through and put up a quote for the headliners. Forget it. You know who they are. You know what they have said. Some of you still idolize them.
Some kitty porn for you:
This is Sid, my sister’s 20 pound polydactyl (he is a Hemingway- look at his paws) cat, who is also diabetic and a general nuisance. He is a long hair, but you can’t tell here because he has been shaved for the summer. When he sits around the house, he sits AROUND the house.
Also, there must be something super comfortable about that couch, because I have several pictures of Tunch posed the same way on that couch. They get up there, roll around, and get in Playcat centerfold mode.
*** Update ***
Real kitty porn.
Via the daily university listserv, I see that Barry Scheck is officially starting a branch of the Innocence Project here at WVU:
Famed attorney Barry Scheck will be here Monday (Sept. 26) to officially launch the Innocence Project at WVU. Scheck co-founded the first project in 1992 at Yeshiva University. Since then, the project that employs DNA analysis and traditional research has helped free some 162 wrongly convicted prisoners nationwide. Scheck will speak at 4 p.m. in the Lugar Courtroom at the College of Law. The project here is a collaboration between the law school and the Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. The WVU project is now considering the applications of more that 100 inmates across West Virginia.
Good news.
Also, the unintentional comedy from listserv headlines continues:
ENGINEERING GETS TOP RANKING FOR HISPANICS
Apparently, our school of engineering builds a mean hispanic.
Projetc Nothing has an on the ground report from the traffic jam in Houston. With pictures.
Jeremy Dibbell has a post on the impact slowing down has on fuel efficiency.
Andrew Sullivan and Armando at dKos have a cage match.
The Carpetbagger has more on Abramoff/DeLay/Rove.
And don;t forget to check out the Dawn Patrol, a round-up of links about Iraq, Afghanistan, and Politics.