After making a test blog, unlinked for the moment, and importing my blogger entries, haven’t been able to import my WP blog. Worse, I still haven’t sorted out the problem with the backslashes (had to change it as stripslashes worked all too well) as the character encoding is off for the old posts and all the links and pics are fubarred, not that anyone would read them but I want it fixed just in case.

So, no haven’t done anything useful for a while.

Gave up on the database and went with add_filter(’the_content’, ’stripslashes’); in vars.php. That works.

But in the meantime, updated to the latest nightly and the wp-users online was giving errors so deactivated that til I could troubleshoot.

Update: Search HiLite doesn’t work either in this version.

Overblog Underblog Soxblog Catblog…

Catblogs rules.

Ever tire of being at the bottom of the ecosystem, want more traffic? Bad Example has a mostly complete, well thought out list of ways to get traffic which I found thanks to Kevin.

I have only one thing to add. Cats. People love looking at the little beasties even psycotic beasties like Ritzi, yeah even her.

For some odd reason, I got the urge to comment on this article from WND.

Planned Parenthood held a conference for children, without their parents, that included distribution of a book deemed pornography by critics.

The “Nobody’s Fool” 2004 conference in Waco, Texas, this week was from start to finish a “thinly veiled attack on parental rights, public morality and the health and well-being of our children,” asserted Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League’s STOPP International, a group that monitors Planned Parenthood.

Did the parents have to give their consent? Did the parents refuse to exercise their parental rights by taking to their kids themselves? Is there anyone stopping parents from talking to their kids? No? Then STFU. Maybe, just maybe, it was more condusive to a comfortable atmosphere to discuss an uncomfortable subject than what the kids get at home.

Children in grades seven through nine received a free copy of the book, “It’s Perfectly Normal.”

The controversial sex-ed primer contains detailed explanations on how to perform sexual acts and masturbation, accompanied by sexually explicit line drawings.

Sexually explicit line drawings, the horror. And tell me how one is to show how it is done without some drawing, a line drawing is as tame as you get. OK, there is the method my ex used, took my kid to “Eyes Wide Shut.” I prefer the line drawings, thankyouverymuch. Geesh, hate that they should get a hold of a book about sex. With a little education, some clueless child won’t be clueless when some guy tries to rape them.

“This so-called ‘educational text’ is nothing more than pornography in comic book form,” stated Sedlak.

Well, depends if it is factual information or a steamy story. Factual information isn’t porn. Imagine they get hold of a medical book, ooooo naked bodies, it’s pooooooorn!

On its website, Planned Parenthood of Central Texas says the purpose of the conference is “to provide teens and pre-teens with factual information about growing up, puberty, dating, relationships, sexual issues and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.”

In this day and age, everyone with half a brain knows what Planned Parenthood is and there’s no reason to complain if they give approval for their kid to attend anything Planned Parenthood is involved in. Might suggest teaching morality in the home. Planned Parenthood doesn’t stop anyone from doing that. Geesh!

So I was watching the news and was struck by the scenes of torched landscapes and this popped in my mind.

To the previously posted picture of Lurch.

Now that I’ve had my fill of yummy cream filled goodness (Twinkies you pervert) and rescued poopy cat from being locked in my kid’s room when the canned kitty food was on the other side of the door, it’s back to blogging as usual.

I so need to try this bot, looks like fun.

It is so unfair to have a caption contest with not one but 10 photos and not an ass grab in the lot of them.

“Dude, I was a cheerleader, ok? A little arc please?”

It fits, k. It’s so true that “The Ambiguously Gay Duo archetype is going to be a hard one to blow off.”

Let’s get one thing straight, Kerry’s trying to be black not gay, m’kay.

And Michael, who has returned but didn’t do the “She quits, she returns. She quits, she returns. She quits, she returns.” bit, brings us the definitive gay roundup with the best and cutest gay guys in the sphere.

Meanwhile, the made over, oh so dapper Butcher of Baghdad has sweet revenge against the shrub who who was so very wrong to invade his country.

In other news, Lisa brings us the light frappi which reminds me I need to go shopping.

Back to catblogging with one of the prettiest cats in the sphere not mine scoping out dinner. Like I said, I need to go shopping, got food on the brain.

Butterball, yum!

From Yahoo, since I was there, is this injury added to insult.

John Kerry has asked Hillary Rodham Clinton to introduce her husband, former President Clinton, on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, giving her a speaking role that Democrats had sought for the New York senator.

Fine way to respond to criticism that she, who is the most important Democrat ever, was intentionally overlooked.

On Wednesday, the former chairwoman of the New York State Democratic Party had called the slight of Clinton a “total outrage” and “very stupid.”

“It’s a slap in the face, not personally for Hillary Clinton, but for every woman in the Democratic Party and every woman in America,” said Judith Hope.

Every woman in America? Not me. I could care less if she speaks much less introduces her philandering husband. I can see it now…

Hillary gets up to speak, holds up a cigar.

“Hereeeeeeeees Bill!”

Hillary pokes the cigar in the air suggestively then walks off stage.

These Nuff said.

Now I’m starved.

My heart for a donut. Wonder what’s in the kitchen?

Might as well as it’s been a while since I’ve done a brief recap of the news.

_____ got blown up.
_____may be blown up.
Terrorists kidnapped _____.
Terrorists beheaded _____.
_____ capitulated to the terrorists.
Al Qaeda may attack someone somewhere and chances are it’s us.
People are still going to be clueless about the real reason why we went to war with Iraq.
Christians are upset about _____.
It’s all Bush’s fault for _____.
Bush lied even when it’s proven he didn’t.
_____ is/is not guilty of killing _____.
_____ was sentenced for _____.
Waffles waffled on _____.
Somehow, someone is going to blame it all on the Jews.
The most dangerous threat to our digital freedom is still Orrin Hatch.
Mad Bill is still pompous.
And cats rule.
Let the fun begin.

Suppose I should turn on the news.

While the controversy rages over a tiny cross on the LA County seal, WND points out:

Ironically, the most prominent image in the L.A. County seal is one of Pomona, the pagan Roman goddess of fruit, though the ACLU did not object to the goddess in its push to have the cross removed.

However, I was struck by the fact that just above said tiny cross are three symbols that look like dildos, giant (ribbed even), large and small. Maybe they are for the pleasure of said goddess. Maybe they are for shoving up the idiots that wanted the cross removed. Who knows? Whatever, dildos suit them.