Look, the gargantuan kitty of doom, er Edloe, drunk on catnip.

Good luck with the kitty ditty.

Nicest thing about Edloe, she’ll never waddle over her and bite me. There has to be some advantage to all that weight sides subbing as a pillow.

Heinz ketchup that is. From Yahoo is this juicy bit.

Though John Kerry’s wife is an heir to the H.J. Heinz Co. fortune, the food company and its executives are providing President Bush with money and a campaign issue - jobs flowing overseas - in this year’s election.

Members of the board of the Fortune 500 company and its corporate political action committee have donated thousands of dollars to Republicans in recent years, including contributions to the Bush campaign. The corporate PAC has given nothing to Kerry.

Absolutely rich. Must thank Aaron for this fine find. Now I don’t have to go check to see what kind, if any, ketchup is in the fridge.

What I like in a man, a down home manner, a good sense of humor, able to relate to people, him.

Thank you, all. Burl, thank you very much. I kind of like ducking those questions. I appreciate you having me. I hope this toast business becomes a habit if you know what I mean.

Thanks for letting me come. Tom, thank you for your invitation. Dean, thank you for having me here. Members of the politburo - I mean, my fellow Americans.

I was thinking about what I was going to tell you when I came over here today, and I thought I’d talk a little bit about the role of the President in creating an environment so that our prosperity lasts, and then the role of the President in securing America. And then I’ll be glad to - I’ll be glad to duck some questions. Just like my mother told me to do.

A man that is intelligent, knows what needs to be done and takes the initiative to do it.

The way I view the role of government is that the government’s role isn’t to create wealth, the government’s role isn’t to say, “I created jobs,” - the government’s role is to create an environment in which entrepreneurs feel comfortable about expanding the job base and risking capital.

So here are some things that I think our country must do to make sure that we have lasting prosperity, prosperity that reflects the willingness of the American system to put in place a competitive system, competitive with other countries.

He lists a lot, worth a read for the whole deal. I like a man that is not afraid to take action, make the hard decisions, who is willing to protect my freedom.

They’d like to attack us again, as well, by the way. Obviously, my most solemn duty, and the duty of everybody involved with government is to do everything we can to protect the American people. In this war against this enemy, we must use all our assets - not some of our assets, but every asset at the disposal of those of us who are in positions of responsibility. Military assets, intelligence assets - we must rely upon alliances. And I will tell you the cooperation is good.

A man who is smart enough to know you don’t negotiate with terrorists.

There’s no negotiations with these terrorists. These are not the kind of people you sit down and you negotiate with. You don’t sign a treaty with people who are - who don’t believe in rules, people who don’t have a conscience. The strategy of the terrorists - they’re trying to shake our will and turn free nations against each other. And they’re - these guys are tough. And they’re sophisticated. And they’re smart. And we just have to be tougher, and smarter, and more sophisticated in our approach to finding them.

Not just tough but compassionate, I want a man that truly cares about his fellow man and improving their existence, relieving suffering.

And, finally, the United States has got responsibilities bigger than just leading the world toward peace and freedom. We’ve got the responsibility of helping to relieve suffering and hunger where we see it, as well. You know, I mentioned to you that - I checked with Colin, I think this is true - that we’re the biggest food donor to the North Korean people. That’s a fact I don’t think a lot of people know. I just hope the food goes to the people and not to the generals. Part of the issue is it’s hard to verify whether or not the food is actually being distributed. But, nevertheless, our heart is right.

That’s the man I want to stay President of the United States.

Finally news of the weird from Yahoo, hey it’s something different.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California grand jury investigating child molestation accusations against Michael Jackson indicted the pop star on Wednesday, U.S. television networks ABC, NBC and CNN reported.

A Santa Barbara County court spokesman said he could not confirm the indictment of Jackson, who has already been charged with molesting a young boy. The grand jury has met for about two weeks in Santa Barbara under extraordinary secrecy.

And in related news, some of his associates may be charged too for threatening the boy’s family. I’d give links but every one I checked trapped you on the site when you checked the back button. I so hate that. CNN has the full story and it doesn’t trap you on it’s site. Note, I haven’t been watching the news lately so little on the slow side here.

Psycho Cat came right up to me and took a bite out of my hand, no reason. She’s back to being a fruitcase.

Bad kitty. Hope her kittens aren’t as nutty as she is or I’m in deep trouble. I couldn’t stand five psychotic cats in one house.

Jay IM’d me this, all the moonbattery you could want in one banner.

Noticed an odd site in my referrers unrelated to any topic on this site so I checked. Someone direct linked one of my smilies. Hello, you can snag them yourself and upload them, not take my bandwidth. Not that they take up so much bandwidth, but it’s the principle of the thing.

Smilies are now .htaccess protected from bandwidth thieves.

Think I have covered all the bases, well except for crapping on the carpet. I won’t take pics of that. Seems the kittens haven’t figured out the litter box, preferring instead the carpet. All picked up. Will be shampooing carpet later when they are done playing. Note the black and white one and the big fluffy gray one have been chosen and will be moving out. Kid claimed the cute gray one in the last two pics and since I expressed a preference for the gray and white one and noone else has, he’s mine.

Blogrolling, safe to say only blogs I won’t get frustrated surfing are the WordPress blogs cause they have their own link manager except for maybe Blogs for Bush, converted here, and The Victory Coalition, which coalition I have yet to make a WP blogroll. Means it won’t load til Blogrolling goes back up.

Should have converted it.

Still can donate thou. Starts today. Give til it hurts.

Ooo, pretty cats here and here. He must submit…

to the Carnival of the Cats of course.

Submissions for the next Carnival go here.

Oh, and get a load of mean kitty. I would never have known - well aside from one look at the expression on her face. Then it’s obvious.

Link thanks to Lair

Democrats, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. From American Digest a taste of their brilliance, just Kos. Article by Gerard Van Der Leun.

That’s the way it is over on the Daily (”Screw ‘Em) Kos. You see, it seems that Secretary of State Powell is in the minds of these twisted people guilty of…. guilty of…. what? Of being a Republican? Of being an African-American that doesn’t seem to want to follow the party line? Strange. Too strange to contemplate really. But this is how the member in good standing of the Kos Cadre puts it:

“By the way, did you notice Powell doesn’t tone down the words when talking to Fox News, because he knows their viewers don’t give a shit if Iraq is a slave colony for Massah Bush and Uncle Tom Powell for the next 50 years. — The Daily Kos:

Actually Kos quotes Powell, worth a read if only for Powell’s remarks. Rest will make your blood boil. Back to the eval here.

What we see instead is a party that has been so out of power for so long, and is so deeply out of touch with so much of the body politic that it has turned in upon itself in its hunger for power and, through starvation, has begun to consume itself from the core out.

Hasn’t even been four years, not that long, crybabies, and they are coming apart at the seams.

That’s why we see these snide and creepy slips beginning to erupt from deep beneath the surface of the party in incidents where the deaths of Americans are celebrated and decent public servants are denigrated through racial slurs.

This is why we are starting to see such chilling incidents as the ad in a newspaper in Florida by a Democratic Political Club calling for the killing of Donald Rumsfeld.

That’s why we are almost certain to see a move in the next few months on the part of the Democrats to bring a Bill of Impeachment against both the President and the Vice-President. It won’t pass. It won’t be expected to pass or even make it to the floor. It will be there just for the “news-cycles” it will churn up.

Oh goodie, another disaster in the making. I can hardly wait - not! Gerald’s descriptions are spot on.

And this all arises from deep within the monsters from the id that now control and move the Democratic Party across out political landscape like a mob of extras from The Dawn of the Dead. It’s an indecent and disgusting spectacle and I suspect there’s more than a few million long-time Democrats who are revolted by it.

Bush-Hate, racism, calls for the death of Republican cabinet members, snide innuendo, joy at the death of Americans in Iraq, the endless political thumbsucking of the 911 Commission, and there’s more on the way, much more. It’s a tired, sick and crazed political party that is so greedy and hungry for power that it will do anything, including selling this country down the drain, to get it back. I’ll have no more to do with it. I’m not the only one.

And there’s our hope, that reasonable people, Democrats even, will see just how twisted and sick they have become and not have any of it.

Link thanks to Jim.

This dismal prediction, by Joseph Farah from WND.

I have bad news for Bush supporters gloating at the latest polls showing the president expanding his lead over John Kerry.

I hate to rain on your parade, but this race is far from over.

Bush partisans are giddy over the fact that Kerry’s campaign seems to be sputtering - that he can’t seem to capture much attention nor generate much excitement.

It’s true that Kerry is a colorless, humorless, unlikable patrician.

That’s the truth. He goes on to relate how in the past three campaigns the Democrats got a huge bounce from the Convention. His prediction:

This is my prediction. Mark it down. Remember where you heard it. The day after the Democratic convention, Kerry will be a front-runner.

It gives me no pleasure to make this prediction. While I believe Bush has been a failure as a president in many ways and cannot support him for re-election, I know Kerry will prove disastrous for the country.

Many people tell me I should support Bush for this reason alone.

I can’t do that. I won’t do that. I won’t cast a vote for a candidate who doesn’t really support the Constitution of the United States, even though he takes an oath to uphold it. I will not vote for a candidate for president who increased spending - not just defense spending, but all spending - so dramatically. I don’t believe we’ll ever get real political choices as Americans if we keep making the mistake of supporting the lesser of two evils.

He himself won’t vote for Bush, so is he voting for Kerry? Remember Bush did exactly what he said he would. And a word on the Constitution, I feel it a bit disingenuous to criticize Bush when Kerry would uphold the U.N. over the U.S. Constitution any day. Bush has proven he’s no slave to the U.N..

Kerry is a dangerous man - and I think he’s going to be the next president.

The reason? Bush is more hated now than he was in 2000. The Nader crowd is going to go for Kerry. The Bush opposition will unite to defeat him this time.

He is hated simply cause he is Bush, dumb if you ask me.

The overconfidence is staggering.

They don’t see this coming.

I can’t imagine them not seeing the possibility of defeat what with the situation in Iraq and elsewhere. Stuff is just too volatile to take anything for granted. Sides, there was no blogosphere back then. Perhaps we can make a difference. Otherwise:

It’s going to be Kerry in 2004.

Can’t have that, that would be a disaster. If you feel the same, consider volunteering and/or donating to the Bush campaign. I have. (more…)