Hmmmm. It appears that I was not keeping the kitty box as clean as I should have. Thank goodness for Nature’s Miracle… excuse me while I do a little laundry. Note to self: Every other day, or every day. Every other day, or every day. Otherwise, don’t leave attractive piles of clothes around. Said cat has been chastised. Bad!! Cat!! Bad!! Naughty!! Although, to be fair, it should be Bad! Monkey! Bad! Naughty!
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Sci Fi Wire — The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel The 200th episode will bring back the character of Martin Lloyd (Willy Garson) and his fictional TV show Wormhole X-treme, which was the subject of the 100th episode, “Wormhole X-treme,” and is a parody of SG-1 itself. Awesome. They’re even doing a wink and a hat-tip in Serenity’s direction. Look for more inside jokes. My favorite last time out was after the big exciting spaceship crash, where an assistant director and somebody else walk into shot, discussing the near-cataclysm and whether they caught it on film. “That’s OK,…
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People planning a hunger strike in San Francisco might want to change their focus – they’re blaming Sen. Arlen Specter, R-PA for the big bad anti-illegal immigrant bill, but it’s a HOUSE bill sponsored by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-WI. Specter’s actually a pretty decent pol who has a much more humane proposal on the table. Specter’s proposal would actually create a process for illegal immigrants to gain legal status and his efforts have won the praise of numerous immigrant advocates. It’s Sensenbrenner’s bill that critics say would criminalize illegal aliens and those who harbor and help them. Via The Swamp…
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Sarah Dylan Breuer attended a meeting of something called the Lay Episcopalians for the Anglican Church. This appears to be a front for the people who want to take control of the Episcopal Church and fight the mythical “gay agenda.” Here’s what she experienced: The Witness: Inside LEAC Ince walked a careful line in the meeting. On one hand, he was eager to present LEAC as an organization completely independent, not only of the Anglican Communion Network, the American Anglican Council, and Anglicans United, but also of All Saints’ Chevy Chase — despite that it was the site for all…
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I have to join this Flickr group. It’s called “Bad Parking.” This particular example is just wrong and bad and evil on so many levels. And of course, it’s emblematic of so much that is wrong with this country and our treatment of everyone else in the world. Via: Flickr Title: Compact what? By: earthdog Originally uploaded: 20 Jul ’05, 10.39pm PST No matter what kind of Hummer you have, it is not a compact car. You should not park in a compact spot. This is not that hard to understand
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Salt Lake Tribune – Salt Lake Tribune Home Page Born Dec. 1, 1919, in Caddo, Texas, Charles Augustus Steen earned a geology degree from the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy in 1943. In 1950, a U.S. government campaign to draw prospectors to the Four Corners area in search of uranium for Cold War weapons development sparked Steen’s interest. He borrowed money from his mother to buy a portable drill, and moved his family – wife, Minnie Lee, also known as M.I., and three small sons – to the Moab area in search of his fortune. Holy cow, I thought…
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Via: Flickr Title: Abandoned at meijer megastore By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 24 Mar ’06, 1.33am PST
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Wow, this is all kinds of bad: a cruise ship caught fire in the Caribbean, forcing an early end of the cruise for 1500 people, some of whom are now about to be stranded in Jamaica with no place to stay until they can be flown home. A friend of mine was supposed to sail on this very ship on Sunday, with 200 of her family, for a reunion that’s been planned and booked for nearly a year. I can’t even imagine what they’re trying to figure out now – she left the office yesterday all happy about going on…
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Mike Shuster of National Public Radio filed the most comprehensive, and damning, timeline story to mark the 3-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. NPR : Iraq Three Years Later: The Path to War This week marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. Mike Shuster tracks the events leading up to the U.S.-led invasion. These include Bush administration claims — since discredited — of ongoing Iraqi nuclear weapons development and links with al Qaeda. I was grateful to my local station, WBEZ, for not running their normal pledge drive schedule that morning – they just…
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My husband David and I were catching up on some shows a lot this past week, now that TiVo II has arrived and made life liveable again. We were watching the end of “Criminal Minds” tonight, which was an episode called “A Real Rain.” It ended badly for the “unsub,” the unknown subject of this week’s exercise in profiling to catch the bad guy. As it ended, a gurney loaded with a body bag is taken away from the scene, shot from the middle distance. Distinctive, sad guitar chords began to play, and instantly I knew it was Jeff Buckley’s…