Liked this pic cause Bazel looks so silly. He usually does the pretty kitty bit, you know the look that means “keep me I’m beautiful”.
I’ve been busy, laundry day. It’s always a challenge to keep the laundry free of cat hair and away from Bazel. Got a pile of chewed dishtowels to remind me of that. Not always successful.
Anyone want Mr. Chew?
Cause I was working. Work sleep work sleep work sleep… that’s what I seem to be doing lately. Oh well, it does pay the bills what the insurance doesn’t cover. And insurance covered a lot I found out. So I’m good.
That and loving kitties. I’ll be doing lots of that later today.
After sleep.
And then there’s the babysitting gig, might end up doing that. Never know.
I’ll try not to hang by the phone in any case. Too tired to even think of babysitting anyway.
But nobody (feline that is or rather Izzy that is since he’s the one that does it) has peed on the bread machine or blender in a while. Life is good.
Jill brought her over Tuesday night, let her spend the night outside, something she didn’t get to do at the apartment.
Yesterday, I had the task of coaxing her in. No problem, she was at the front door.
Bad move.
Other kitties were there waiting to go out. So I told her to go to the window, went in her room, and… surprise! She was there, nice obedient cat. So I let her in. Then she disappeared. Thinking she went out again, I left the window open.
Then Meowza came in her room. Got him out of there fast.
Hours later, she emerged from the closet. Pissed.
For more happy kitties, check out the Friday Ark and the Carnival of the Cats to be held at Catymology.
I knew it would happen, the Dow passing 13,000. Even hit a high of 13,107.45 before closing at 13,089.89. That got scant mention in the news thou as it was drowned out by all the bloviating about Rosie’s soon to be departure from the View.
Guess I was watching the wrong channel. Heard too CNN covered Yeltsin’s funeral.
Sometimes the Right channel (as in the Right politically speaking) isn’t the right channel. Sad, I would have preferred the funeral. He was Russia’s first democratically elected president. He deserves some credit. More than Rosie. So did the Dow for that matter. This isn’t the first time Fox has neglected hard news for fluff. Won’t be the last. *sigh*
The other day my kid dropped her phone for the umpteenth time but this was the time that broke it, well the screen anyway. Screen is cracked and very black. She can use the phone but can’t see anything and, of course, all her friends phone numbers are stored there and, without the screen, she can’t access anything.
Can’t call anyone. Didn’t even remember my cell number and had to dial the land line.
So…
Time for a new phone.
Seeing as her phone was a flip phone and every time she dropped it, it flipped open, a flip phone was out. Didn’t want to risk that again.
She had better luck with candybar phones. Old one was a Sony Ericsson (which replaced the Sony Ericsson that she dropped in the toilet, phone didn’t like that much) but T-Mobile didn’t have any of those. They had all of two candybar phones.
That weren’t made by Nokia or Motorola.
The one she liked and got. Supposed to be sturdy too among other features. Only other candybar phone they had didn’t have expandable memory and she had a 2Gb memory card that would go to waste if she were to get it.
A less annoying, ie non-flash link is here. It’s a nice phone.
Got more features than my little Samsung. *sigh* She has no idea.
Is returning. Seems the management caught a glimpse of the cat and, as I warned Jill, they see the cat, she gets evicted.
And she doesn’t want that so the cat returns.
Must put out a nice clean litter pan for the cat.
It is only fitting that the Meowers of Death have devoted a whole category to the recall of the pet food of death which I will be referring to often as I have to buy cat food.
Soon.
I ran out of canned kitty food this morning and the natives are getting restless.
I need to be picky as the meowers explain.
You too can have large vet bills and tons of grief for the low low price of numerous pet deaths, empty wallets, and guilt of feeding your pet tainted food!
I so don’t want that. I have enough worries as Izzy has a fondness for bird. One of these days…
H5N1 will come to Arizona and Izzy will be the first to let me know.
As I am fond of beach scenes and already have kittycats for the Macs (rotating pics of kittycats), I have settled on Microsoft’s only beach pic, that is until I move a few more pics over from the Mac, a simple process seeing as all I have to do is drag and drop the pics from one OS to the other.
They live happily side by side, the only thing being the buttons at the top of the apps are in different places.
And I get the kittycats too when running Coherence mode which is the way I find Vista most useful for me, maximum compatibility and I can run the programs I want.
Me happy.
So it’s back to Bazel who mixed it up with Izzy earlier with Izzy growling at Bazel and much chasing each other around the house. Guess that tuckered him out. Made quite a racket, those two.
And since I’m not all there, been up some 32 hours, and not up to deep thoughts, it’s kitty time.
Again.
There is no peace in this house, can’t even sit down on the sofa which used to be a nice spot for a read preKrissie.
Lush!
For more well behaved kitties (there must be some in the bunch), check out the Friday Ark and Sunday’s Carnival of the Cats which will be at the Scratching Post.
Gee, I miss all the good stuff. Digger’s going so I’ll just have to follow his blog for all the info.
Not that I think it will sway the Bush administration, it won’t. But it might give a few Congresscritters pause before passing sweeping amnesty for illegals similar to McCain and Kennedy’s bill. Even Flake’s bill is iffy. Just maybe enough won’t cave.
We can hope.
Even with amnesty for all those illegals and the myriad relatives they will then bring over, there will still be illegals cause I doubt any bill will give a pass to the criminal element. Course considering the Bush administration’s past record of prosecuting border patrol agents for doing their job and giving a pass to drug dealers, anything is possible.
Except common sense.
It’s been done before, lyrics here and different lyrics here but I still think McCain’s joke about “Bomb Iran” was funny. Now I have no great love for the man, think McCain-Feingold or Kennedy-McCain and you get the idea, but I do appreciate a sense of humor.
Especially now when bombing Iran wouldn’t be such a bad idea all things (nukes) considering. At least take out the nuclear facilities.
There’s even a video of “Bomb Iran”, full song not just the abbreviated McCain version on YouTube which everyone’s probably already seen. Warning: that video was probably made by someone on the left but it’s still funny.
Joke’s been out there a while, nothing to get all in a fuss about. Move along folks.
For a more eloquent post on the topic, read Sissy. She’s spot on as usual.
I came home to find the water running in the sink, a first mind you. Running on the hot side with the faucet right in the middle between the bowls which meant…
there was water from the counter to the floor, even in the kitties’ dish. It can’t have been running that long as the kitchen wasn’t entirely flooded and there was still plenty of hot water left. So who did it?
Let’s see, Izzy was outside so that lets him off the hook.
Keefe and Klarissa never get on the counter so that they’e not guilty either. Sides Klarissa is too small anyway.
Krissie only gets up there to beg and I wasn’t home at the time. Noone to bother.
Meowza rarely gets up there so he’s probably not guilty. Mind you, probably not guilty. There’s always that outside chance.
Jezi, hmmmm when she’s chased she always heads to the bread machine cause she’s the only one sides Klarissa who can fit between it and the cabinet above and I had already ruled Klarissa out.
That leaves, you guessed it, drumroll please…
Bazel.
He’s the fattest and as his usual route to the bread machine was blocked (mugs on the windowsill) that left the sink and as he’s so fat, he likely bonked it chasing Jezi.
They’re both up for anyone that wants them. I don’t care how pretty he is anymore. He’s a bad kittycat.
Thinking of it, this isn’t exactly good sales material. I’ll have to unload him on some unsuspecting soul who will think he’s an absolute angel.
Like any cat is.
For more well behaved kitties (there must be some in the bunch), check out the Friday Ark and Sunday’s Carnival of the Cats which will be at the Scratching Post.
Being the only cooperative kittycat has saved Bazel yet again. He’s still here and washing himself. There’s tongue.
And there’s toes.
Isn’t he pretty?
For more pretty kitties, check out the Friday Ark and Sunday’s Carnival of the Cats will be at the Scratching Post.
Bombs can be very deadly, more deadly than a nutcase with a couple of guns, as FoxNews reports
Suspected Sunni insurgents penetrated the Baghdad security net Wednesday, hitting Shiite targets with four bomb attacks that killed 183 people — the bloodiest day since the U.S. troop surge began nine weeks ago.
Doesn’t look too good for the troop surge what with all the bombings. It is beyond me why they keep killing each other. A lot of innocent people were killed, their families deserve our compassion as much as the families of the victims of mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui.
For once the Supreme Court got it right. Now it’s illegal to abort a perfectly good baby by the inhumane method of crushing his skull and sucking his brains out.
The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman’s uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion.
Alas, baby killers have other methods. Dismemberment remains intact.
Abortion opponents say the law will not reduce the number of abortions performed because an alternate method - dismembering the fetus in the uterus - is available and, indeed, much more common.
Perhaps they should tackle that next. No need to torture an innocent baby, no need to murder one either.
KT Cat has another WOG out, well two of them, actually. I’ve been a bit slow here posting. One a Contest WOG highlighting the good work (vastly underreported in the MSM) that the Army Corps of Engineers do. It’s always nice to see good things about our troops.
And the other a ROC WOG highlighting “Reach Out and Care, a group that donates wheelchairs to people in developing countries.” It involves the military too.
Our troops are awesome.
Finally caught a bit of tummy with the cell phone. Here’s Bazel.
And here’s Bazel all stretched out.
Tummy Tuesday was created by Lisa Violet who captures the cutest tummies.
Yes, I know it’s Wednesday, my connection was down on Tuesday.
More melamine in the cat food folks. FoxNews reports:
The chemical, melamine, is believed to have contaminated rice protein concentrate used to make a variety of Natural Balance Pet Foods products for both dogs and cats, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Previously, the chemical was found to contaminate another ingredient, wheat gluten, used by at least six other pet food and treat manufacturers.
Natural Balance said it was recalling all its Venison and Brown Rice canned and bagged dog foods, its Venison and Brown Rice dog treats and its Venison and Green Pea dry cat food.
Check your cupboards people.
The shooting at Virginia Tech has shown just how easy it is for copycats to do the same thing.
Notably, according to what I heard on FoxNews, it shows Al Qaida how easy it will be to coordinate an attack provided they want to blow up people at college campuses. After all suicide bombers don’t take out that many people per attack. But it would rattle people which is what they want.
Terror as opposed to outright annihilation. Although for some (Ahmadinejad), that might be a goal too.
Suppose if Al Qaida wants to do it up proper, they should consult the experts - Hamas and Hezbollah.
In the U.S. that is, only thing on the news today what little of it I saw. Let’s see 33 dead including the shooter, 28 injured. “…the deadliest shooting rampage in American history…” according to the New York Times.
These things don’t usually happen outside Israel (thanks to the Palis) and Iraq (thanks to Sunnis and Shiites not being able to get along).
As to the massacre, horrific comes to mind. Why anyone would do such a thing is beyond me. Mind you, it’s unlikely this would happen again any time soon, chances are pretty remote one would be gunned down anywhere (outside the Middle East).
By anyone not a Muslim Islamic extremist.
My heart goes out to the families of the victims.
Should do something useful today sides sleep so…
the Carnival of the Cats is at Books for Israel later today. Tobias is in charge so should be interesting.
More so than my oh so lively bunch, sleeping furballs. They stay out of trouble that way.
Sleep is good.
“The Hour [of Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the rock and the tree will say: “Oh, Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, kill him!” Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan, quoting the hadith from WND. In Arabic to Palestinians, he says what they really aspire to - genocide of the Jews.
“We must remind our Arab and Muslim nation, its leaders and people, its scholars and students, remind them that Palestine and the Al Aqsa mosque will not be liberated through summits nor by international resolutions, but it will be liberated through the rifle.”
He concluded: “O Allah, strengthen Islam and Muslims, and bring victory to your jihad-fighting worshipers, in Palestine and everywhere. … Allah take the oppressor Jews and Americans and their supporters!”
He even goes after us. And to think there are people in this country that support them. Rachel Corrie was not the only one. Thankfully, there are organizations like Palestinian Media Watch to keep an eye on what their real intentions are. Now if our leaders only paid attention. The far left is hopeless, they will never listen to reason.
In IE 7, I can set more than one homepage to open in tabs so several tabs open at once. Still, Safari with Saft or Firefox is better. One good use for IE…
downloading Firefox.
It’s so weird working in Windows.
Mind you, I started with Windows long, long ago back in the days of 3.1.
Still weird.
More kitties were affected than thought. From MyWay News are the details.
Pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical may have sickened or killed 39,000 cats and dogs nationwide, based on an extrapolation from data released Monday by one of the nation’s largest chains of veterinary hospitals.
Banfield, The Pet Hospital, said an analysis of its database, compiled from records collected by its more than 615 veterinary hospitals, suggests that three out of every 10,000 cats and dogs that ate the pet food contaminated with melamine developed kidney failure. There are an estimated 60 million dogs and 70 million cats in the United States, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.
And it was more cats than dogs too.
From its findings, Banfield officials calculated an incidence rate of .03 percent for pets, although there was no discernible uptick among dogs. That suggests the contamination was overwhelming toxic to cats, Lewis said. That is in line with what other experts have said previously.
What an awful tragedy. Don’t know if it is the difference in species or the fact cats are generally smaller than most dogs but they sure got hit hard. It’s enough to make one want to make their own cat food or at least go organic.
Yeah, it’s not tummies, I couldn’t get any of the cats to show me the tummy so have to do with Meowza doing the licky.
Oh wait, there’s a little tummy there.
Bazel and Jezi showing the slightest hint of tummy.
Krissie who’s all tummy or was before she got old and saggy.
But no sprawling out undecorously for them. Now why can’t my kitties pose nice like that?
Tummy Tuesday was lovingly created by Lisa Violet who lives with more cooperative cats than I do obviously.
Worst case scenario from the immigration reform bill now brewing in Congress is that for every one of the estimated 12 million illegals made legal will be able to bring in 273 relatives according to FoxNews, immediate and not so.
That amounts to a grand total of 3,276,000,000 immigrants or roughly 30.48 times the entire population of Mexico (107,449,525).
Think about it. Why try to smuggle them across when with the stroke of a pen, Bush (who will sign the bill) will make it possible for Mexico to empty out their country. And probably most of Central and South America if so desired?
3000 centrifuges, not enough to produce atomic weapons, Ahmadinejad needs 50,000 to 60,000 for that.
So how many for a dirty bomb or several?
And how long before he gets those 50,000 to 60,000 centrifuges on line?
After all we thought he only had 328 centrifuges operating. Comforting thought, he does not have enough yet to destroy the U.S. although Israel will be far more doable. One bomb over Tel Aviv and it’s all over… (more…)
When I pulled up in the driveway, I was surprised to find waiting with Izzy an intruderkitty, the pretty kittycat I saw some days ago but didn’t get a pic of so I pulled out the phone for a couple shots.
I was able to get a closeup of the kittycat too.
Dare I say he’s prettier than my kitties?
For more kittycats check out Friday Ark and Sunday’s Carnival of the Cats will be at Bad Kitty Cats.
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