Colossal Squid

New Zealand Fishermen Catch World's Largest Squid

At ~990 pounds, the colossal squid (mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) is a lot of calamari...

Origami Bills

The clever folks at Personal Financial Advice blog have come up with Five Great Ways To Leave A Tip ... folding the bills into origami.

My favorite is the spider, but be warned that you risk scaring arachnophobic servers
;-)

Perv Rights

Former ACLU Chapter President Arrested For Child Pornography

Why am I not surprised?

OZ Loves Cheney

Supporters of US Vice President Dick Cheney hold a banner outside the hotel where he delivered his Australian American Leadership Dialogue in Sydney. Cheney met with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, one of Washington's staunchest allies, for talks likely to focus on troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

How refreshing.

Let's make our own banner:

The world needs great men like John Howard. We love Australia.

Blue Brain

***Your Brain is Blue***

Of all the brain types, yours is the most mellow.

You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don't try to think away your troubles.

Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are.

You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

What Color Is Your Brain?

Who thinks up these silly Internet tests?

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... Extra the polydactyl cat. She has seven toes on each front paw and six toes on each back paw for a total of 26!

Yikes, imagine if this catches on. Cats with opposable thumbs will take over the world... or at the very least, they'll open their own cans! ;-)

Happy Friday, everybody!

Toxic Zone?

Is it something in the water in Broward County, Florida?

Bwa ha ha ha!

[The BLOG note: Hat tip to Lucianne.com ]

Dems Feud

Clinton, Obama Camps' Feud Is Out In The Open

I'm just sitting back and enjoying this, aren't you?

Obamarama

Thomas Sowell's columns, always a good read, says it all in this NRO.com piece:

Barack Obama, Control Freak:
Fresh Face, Same Old Fallacies.

Here's a clip:

"All this is the old liberal agenda from years past, old wine in new bottles, a new face with old ideas that have been tried and failed repeatedly over the past generation".

I don't want to live in Obamanation, do you?

Revolving Door Rehab

Britney Spears Leaves Rehab Again! .

Honestly, this girl needs therapy before she becomes the next young blonde bimbo whose tragic death takes over the 24 hour news cycle.

Heroes & Coward

Alicia Colon's excellent piece in the NY SUN Heroes & Cowards is worth reading. I hate to say, "It's a must read," but it really is...

Here's a clip:

"The total military dead in the Iraq war between 2003 and this month stands at about 3,133. This is tragic, as are all deaths due to war, and we are facing a cowardly enemy unlike any other in our past that hides behind innocent citizens. Each death is blazoned in the headlines of newspapers and Internet sites. What is never compared is the number of military deaths during the Clinton administration: 1,245 in 1993; 1,109 in 1994; 1,055 in 1995; 1,008 in 1996. That's 4,417 deaths in peacetime but, of course, who's counting?"

Pray for our brave troops because the cowards are in charge of the pursestrings.

Monday Blues Buster

Don't you wish you could have a Clutter Fairy?

Congressional Cowardice

Ralph Peters doesn't pull any punches in his piece in the NY Post ... COWARDS GIVE UP ON GIS - & GIVE IN TO EVIL .

Here's a clip:

"The 'nonbinding resolution' telling the world that we intend to surrender to terrorism and abandon Iraq may be the most disgraceful congressional action since the Democratic Party united to defend slavery."

Disgraceful is one word for it.

Resounding Resolution

The House voted 246-182 against Resolution 63 yesterday.

Click Here To See All The Votes

I've come to expect this type of shamefully treasonous behavior from democrats, but it's surprising to see 17 republicans vote this way.

Here's a list:

- Mike Castle (R-DE)
- Howard Coble (R-NC)
- Tom Davis (R-VA)
- John Duncan (R-TN)
- Phil English (R-PA)
- Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD)
- Bob Inglis (R-SC)
- Timothy V. Johnson (R-IL)
- Walter B. Jones (R-NC)
- Rick Keller (R-FL)
- Mark Kirk (R-IL)
- Steven LaTourette (R-OH)
- Ron Paul (R-TX)
- Tom Petri (R-WI)
- Jim Ramstad (R-MN)
- Fred Upton (R-MI)
- Jim Walsh (R-NY)

They may argue that it's a non-binding resolution and that it does not affect their support of the troops.

Baloney! This moronic gesture is symbolic of an attitude of resounding defeat and serves only to embolden the enemy.

The Senate is calling a special Saturday session to vote on the measure. Let's hope these republicans show more backbone.

Britney Shears

First rehab...

Then she quits rehab after one day...

Somewhere along the way, she shaved her head.

What was she thinking?

Britney doesn't do thinking.

Franken's Run

Al Franken Enters Minnesota Senate Race

Now that's funny!

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

...a Valentine cat.

Happy Friday, everybody!

A Skid Mark Safe?

What's the best place to hide your money or valuables?

Conversation With A Burglar at Personal Finance Advice blog provides some clever tips...

What Snow?

From Newsmax.com Al Gore Ducks Blizzard; Promises Heat Wave Soon for some eye-opening facts on global warming.

Yikes! The really scary stuff is that real science is being silenced and/or perverted by C average students.

Cigar Saga

From the whole lotta nerve department comes... Rep. Ellison Calls The Cops To Snuff Tancredo’s Cigar .

Some troublemakers just don't play well with others.

If I were in Rep. Tancredo's shoes, I'd invite all my friends to a cigar party. The more the merrier ;-)

Valentine Greetings

Remember dark chocolate is good for your heart.

Happy Valentine's Day.

No News

Obamanation

Raise your hand if you're a flaming liberal defeatocrat...

Michelle Malkin's piece via JWR Obama: Wasting His

Own Breath makes Barack Hussein Obama's position clear.

Holy Cow!

Truck Spills 40 Tons Of Cow Intestines in Sheboygan.

Bye bye byproducts... and all because of an MP3 player and a gutsy driver.

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... Rare White Tiger Triplets Born At Argentine Zoo

Happy Friday everybody!

More Lights

Mysterious Lights Spotted Over Phoenix, Again .

Make sure you watch the video.

First there are 5 lights, then 4 lights, then 5 lights...



Military flares?

Yeah, right.

Water Cube

My favorites are the cubular ones, but there are many beautiful water sculptures by William Pye .

Year Of The Pig

Two Pigs 'Tie The Knot' In Taiwan

No, not the wedding of Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell... these are physiologically correct pigs... and the wedding is a charity event which is part of the festivities heralding the beginning of the Year of the Pig which begins on February 18th.

Let the celebration of pigs and pork products begin.


The BLOG note: cartoon credit to snoopy.apana.org.au

And Now For Something Completely Different...

We recently exposed our daughters to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Needless to say, they laughed themselves silly, and were glad to finally understand the silly references we've been making to it all these years.

So when we heard that Spamalot was coming to our area, we made arrangements to take the girls.

It was great fun. We all loved it. There was much loving homage to the film, and a few musical numbers that had nothing at all to do with it but were thrown in for gratuitous humor. The production values and the cast were excellent.

If you're a Monty Python fan, it's definitely worth catching.

New Addition To The Family

Most of you have noticed my recent absence... No, I wasn't in rehab
;-)

Meet Elke, our new puppy. At 8 weeks old she's 14.1 lbs. of perpetual motion
that requires much supervision.

It's been 7 years since Dax was a puppy, so we had forgotten the horrors of housebreaking. Piddle & poop patrol is ongoing, and time-consuming.

Posting may be light for a while. Please bear with me.