Being kind of dull, failed napping so posting a pic I took today. Cat’s haven’t moved much. Mostly all they do is sleep and suck.

Three new skins and finally figured out how to do backgrounds that are colored that fit larger than the image in every other browser than Safari. Always looks perfect in Safari but the others, not so perfect. Little CSS trick I picked up trying out stuff others did. Course, no way of knowing in advance the size of their background so I had Jay double check as I had made the image 1024×768.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the skins. Jay does, told me so.

About Syria, bout time too. Bush is going to institute sanctions on Syria. From the Jerusalem Post, the details.

President George W. Bush is expected to soon slap tough economic sanctions on Syria, going beyond the minimum requirements of a bill approved by Congress last year, according to congressional sources.

Congressional sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they have been told the administration plans to choose three sanctions. One would bar Syrian planes from flying over or landing in the United States. Another would prohibit new investments by US oil companies in Syria. It was not clear whether other US business operations in Syria would also be prohibited. Bilateral trade with Syria is about $300 million a year.

…Bush signed the Syria Accountability Act in December, one month after Congress overwhelmingly approved it. It bars US exports to Syria of dual-use items that could have military applications. It also requires Bush to choose at least two of six possible economic or diplomatic sanctions.

This is long overdue. So why haven’t we done this before? Oh, this is why.

Syria provided the United States with intelligence on al-Qaida after the Sept. 1, 2001, attacks. Though some U.S. officials have played down the importance of Syrian intelligence, that cooperation likely discouraged the administration from imposing sanctions that would have reduced diplomatic contacts.

…”We don’t want to back them into a corner where there is no return,” said Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the International Relations Middle East subcommittee. She said there is still hope that Assad will “read the writing on the wall and do the right thing and truly cooperate.”

Somehow doubt they gave us much, just enough to keep the U.S. off Syria’s back most likely. Will this fare any better? Doubt it but it’s a first step.

While on the way to therapy, not having recently charged the iPod, I listened to Howard briefly. He had a new twist on why he was booted.

Stern is also maintaining that Clear Channel dropped him last month not because of indecency but because of some of his Bush criticism earlier in the year. “There’s a real good argument to be made that I stopped backing Bush and that’s when I got kicked off Clear Channel,” he said on the air earlier this month.

“When he takes that FCC persecution mantle and wraps it around his political views,” says Mark Walsh, CEO of Air America, “and when he implies that it wasn’t until he started to criticize this president that he really started getting nailed for ‘immorality’ and ‘obscenity,’ he throws gasoline on the fire.

What else has Howard said? Something about John F’n Kerry being straight speaking and not flip flopping. That shoots down Howard’s credibility on this issue. Like everyone with half a brain knows that Kerry has flip flopped all over the place like a dead fish. Don’t just mean his delivery either. And while Howard is praising Kerry, he would be wise to remember that…

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said radio stations are within their right to pull Howard Stern off the air if they object to the shock jock’s racy show.

“Howard Stern does have the right to say whatever he wants anywhere, but he doesn’t necessarily have the right to say it on that station if the people who run the station don’t want him to,” Kerry said while campaigning in New York, where Stern’s show is broadcast.

Yeah, Kerry is really going to back Howard when he is down and dirty. Despite that little detail, Howard may make a difference in the election unfortunately.