I went out tonight, nothing so exotic but useful nonetheless. I learned useful survival tactics for dealing with this.

And no, it wasn’t a Photoshop seminar.

Nor was it singing a kitty crappy ditty. I’ll let Lair make the movie singing while Piper makes turd hockey.

Still, it was fun to get out and mingle with the non furry ie humans.

Kevin has graciously taken over duties of adminning the Victory Coalition for Michele. There are actually several teams working to donate money to this very good cause but this one has the little dead girl. The actual contest starts Wednesday so give then, goes for one week. Let’s show these marines some support.

Wal-Mart has a blog? Sortof, it’s about Wal-Mart not by Wal-Mart, big difference. Why would I even care about a blog about Wal-Mart? On Blogspot even, ok, keeping the cheap in Wal-Mart definitely.

Oh, just possibly cause I’m going there. Why when there’s a perfectly good Target nearby? Lower prices and I can never find my heat wraps at Target.

Gone.

Back, you’d think they’d have the toilet paper with the toiletries, but no. It’s on the opposite end of the store, the huge super sized gargantuan butt ugly store. Thankfully my Wal-Mart experience wasn’t a total disaster. Have iPod cranked up loud enough to drown out the noise and it’s almost bearable.

By the way, you can get iPods at Target, Target not Wal-Mart, Target. Spiffier stuff by far at Target.

And they did carry my laundry detergent, all flavors too. Ok that’s a plus too. Wal-Mart does have it’s uses.

Hattip to Kevin.

Found this fun pasttime from Lair and since I don’t have an account, posting here. Don’t think I will give up my day job thou. And in tribute to Lair, I made something he could relate to.

The kittens have discovered food, real kitty food. Trick is to keep the bigger cats away from the food so the kittens can eat it. Not entirely successful there. They have discovered a hole where they can get under the kitchen cabinets too. Least I don’t have to clean up there course, if they do something in there, might not smell too nice. They have also discovered climbing and have managed to take up residence in a pile of clothes destined for a yard sale. They will be destined to be washed first imagine. Currently, they are playing but haven’t taken any pics today yet. These are from yesterday.

The Commissar has a nice big pic of where the wall is going. However, I think the wall is in the wrong place. If you note that little line that goes straight down from where the green line makes a sharp bend to the Dead Sea, to the right of Jericho, it goes there. Israel to the left of the line, Paleswineans to the right of the line.

Yeah, right there.

And if you don’t think Hamas are terrorists, read this, note it’s only a partial list, only since 2000. Israel is full within it’s rights to blow them all away. Link thanks to Individual Thoughts.

The Commisar has set up a new blog, Friends of Saddam to bring together in one place all the dirt on the oil for food scandal. As reported in the New York Times, hard info is going to be hard to come by.

Meanwhile, because U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan’s son was on the payroll of the Swiss company hired to monitor the imports, and because Kofi’s right-hand man had been in charge of the program rife with 10 percent kickbacks, the world’s foremost diplomat announced he would appoint an independent panel to investigate.

He chose men of integrity: Paul Volcker, former U.S. Fed chairman; Judge Richard Goldstone, the first Balkans war crimes prosecutor; and Mark Pieth, a Swiss lawyer said to be an expert on money laundering.

End of cover-up, right? Wrong. Volcker properly required a Security Council resolution, which would presumably empower his panel to take sworn testimony and gain access to the U.N.’s corrupt contracts that enabled Saddam to build palaces instead of providing food to his people.

Dumb, dumb because it would require the approval of the very countries that had their hands in the til and that will not be forthcoming.

But such a U.N. resolution would reveal dealings with companies in Russia, France and China - all Security Council permanent members whose nationals had their hands in the till. As Senator Lugar suggested, some nations had secret profiteering reasons to keep Saddam in power.

To nobody’s surprise, Vladimir Putin’s government was the first to say nothing doing. Russia’s U.N. spokesman said, “We understand the reputation of the secretariat is in question, but we do not think it is possible to adopt a resolution on the basis of mass media reports.”

Of the 270 suspected kickbackers and recipients of illegal allocations of oil whose names were revealed by Al Mada, the Iraqi newspaper, one-fourth were Russian, including a member of the Russian Parliament and a former Russian ambassador to Baghdad. No wonder Putin wanted no “regime change,” and now resists any serious investigation.

Well, it is rather obvious that those that didn’t want us to go to war with Iraq had ulterior motives, said ulterior motives being conveniently forgotton by the Left when accusing Bush of going it alone. And they will do all in their power to squelch any investigation of the truth. It will be business as usual at the U.N..

France’s U.S. ambassador writes under “Oil-for-Food Lies” in The Los Angeles Times that “unfounded accusations … have been spread by a handful of influential, conservative TV and newspaper journalists in the U.S.” He noted that all 15 members of the Security Council approved all the oil-for-food contracts, and “the complete contracts were only circulated to the U.S. and Britain, which had expressly asked to see them…” (And State shut its eyes - and has no list?)

So, the official line will be that these are unfounded accusations and the investigation will go nowhere. Question, why is our State Department in bed with the U.N.? While pondering that, might ask oneself if one really wants a President that will subvert U.S. interests and everything else to the U.N.

It will be interesting to see if concerted effort on the part of bloggers will have any effect upon the intransigence of the U.N.. Not sure anything can make much impact on that very corrupt organization which has, IMHO, outlived it’s usefulness if it ever had any.

Hat tip to The Bejus Pundit.

If anybody isn’t familiar with the brilliant work of Cox and Forkum, they are missing out. I just couldn’t resist this one, scary thing Moore actually did say that. He’s with the enemy.

Note, he is typical of the far left, aligning themselves with the terrorists, Syria, Iran, all the Islamofacists trying to destroy Iraq’s chances for real democracy. Think the far left want to destroy our democracy too.