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Second Wildfire Breaks Out In Georgia Swamp; Florida Fires Still Raging

The fires are raging and the smokey haze we saw on Tuesday is back in spades. It's so bad, I just received an instant alert from my youngest daughter's school to pick her up because the air quality inside her school is being affected.

I'm praying for some rain.

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

...with all this talk about ducks, I thought a catduck would be appropriate... or is it a ducat? a catuck?

Whatever :-)

Happy Friday everybody!

We Got Grapes

Our grape vines are coming along nicely despite the recent lack of rain. This photo
reminded me of a funny joke:

A duck walks into a bar and asks, "Got grapes?"

The bartender, confused, tells the ducks that no, his bar doesn't serve grapes. The duck thanks him and leaves.

The next day, the duck returns and asks, "Got grapes?"

Again, the bartender tells him that, no, the bar does not serve grapes, has never served grapes, and, furthermore, will never serve grapes. The duck, a little ruffled, thanks him and leaves.

The next day, the duck returns, but before he can say anything, the bartender begins to yell: "Listen, duck! This is a bar! We do not serve grapes! If you ever ask for grapes again, I will nail your stupid duck beak to the bar!"

The duck looks at the bartender and asks, "Got nails?"

Surprised, the bartender says, “No, we don’t have any nails.”

“Good," the duck says, "Got grapes?”

It's an oldie but a goody.

Grounded Girl

Singer Annie Lennox has been hit with a hefty repair bill after Lola, her 16-year-old daughter, became the latest victim of gatecrashers who get wind of a party on the internet.

Annie Lennox's Girl Hit By The Internet Gatecrash Yobs

This was the third time in recent weeks that UK teens have trashed homes in a party advertised on the Internet.

Who in their right mind goes out of town and leaves their teenager in charge of the house?

Pelosi Plan

Pelosi has a plan...

Is it the Little Bunny Foo Foo Plan?

Actually it's part of the $15 billion Water Resources Development Act . Pelosi's measure would authorize $25 million to improve San Francisco port areas, and also would put some areas off limits to navigation so cruise ships could dock.

The fact that her investor husband owns four rental properties in a nearby commercial district has no bearing whatsoever on the Speaker's plans.

I don't know about you, but I think it resembles the Feinstein Plan .

Keep your eye on the money.

Ty DUI

TMZ.com is rapidly becoming the nightmare website of every wayward celebrity.

Now it's news of Ty Pennington, formerly one of the carpenters on "Trading Spaces" and recently the host of ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"

Reality Show Host Ty Pennington Arrested For DUI

Don't these celebrities have enough money to spring for a cab?

Lost In The Mail?

Bush To Host White-Tie Dinner For Queen

I'm supposing my invitation was lost in the mail, but it would be tres gauche of me to call and inquire as to its whereabouts ;-)

Murder Most Foul

You'd think it was the plot of a cheesy movie of the week on TV, but it's for real.

John James (J.J.) Paulsen , a writer and producer on "Cosby," "In Living Color" and other shows, has been held in jail since his wife's decomposing body was discovered April 18 in the couple's upscale home in Carmel, Indiana.

Crime buffs can read further ... The Horrible Fall of J.J. Paulsen

and New Details Emerge In Carmel Murder Case

All in all, it's pretty gruesome.

Wanted: Cockroaches

American cockroaches are wanted by the the Houston Museum of Natural Science to fill an exhibit about the wonders of insects that eat decomposing things.

Museum Offering To Buy Cockroaches

*shudder*

There are enough of those flying suckers in my garage to fill that exhibit, but the museum curators will have to come and get them themselves.

*SHUDDER*

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... a cat who wants to avoid Florida's sea serpents and hang out by the pool ;-)

Happy Friday everybody!

Cecil?

If you've read The BLOG for a bit, you already know Florida is a wild place to live. Now we've got a sea serpent...

Sea Serpent Off Our Shore

Make sure you watch the awesome video of a 7-10 foot long creature that the photographer calls a "living intestine".

Romney Favorite

When asked his favorite novel in an interview shown recently on the Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney pointed to “Battlefield Earth,” a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology

Romney Favors Hubbard Novel .

I know the movie sucked, but to be fair, I haven't read the book. Still, I question the wisdom of picking any L. Ron Hubbard novel as your favorite while you're on the campaign trail.

Sounds like Romney is as much a connoisseur of good science fiction as he is of
hunting.

Feinstein...Finally

When Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) resigned last year as the top Democrat on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (or “Milcon”) sub-committee, you probably didn't hear much about it in the MSM.

You probably didn't hear much about how during her years on the Milcon committee, she may have directed more than $1 billion to companies controlled by her husband.

Yes, that's billion with a 'B'.

From The Hill's David Keene, "it appears Sen. Feinstein was up to her ears in the same sort of shenanigans that landed California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R) in the slammer."

Read the rest of the story... Feinstein’s Cardinal Shenanigans

Finally...

Constellation Scotty

A new constellation takes shape in the heavens.

*sniff*


[The BLOG note: Photo credit to the Star Trek comic The Trek Life at StarTrek.com]

Sky High Meal

Pie In The Sky: The 150ft-high Restaurant

All I can say is they'd better have enough alcohol on board for me to have the courage to try the Dinner In The Sky experience.

On second thought, there are no restrooms...

Nevermind.

Pol Humor

Just a funny ad I found on Lucianne.com .

Happy belated Birthday, Lucianne.

T.P. Pup

Busted!

What Sheryl Crow's dog does when she's away...

;-)

Steel Melt

Fiery Crash Collapses L.A. Freeway

"Heat exceeded 2,750 degrees and caused the steel beams holding up the interchange from eastbound I-80 to eastbound Interstate 580 above to buckle and bolts holding the structure together to melt, leading to the collapse," said California Department of Transportation director Will Kempton.

I wonder how Rosie O'Donnell, "comic" and, as of late, vocal expert in metallurgy, will explain this incident in light of her cockamamy 9/11 conspiracy theories. Here, a scant 5 1/2 years later, is only the second time in history that fire has melted steel.

Yeah, right.

I bet the loon will find someway to blame the Bush administration.

Give Me Incandescents

What the eco-greeny activists won't tell you about replacing your incandescent bulbs with the mercury-ridden CFL bulbs:

The CFL Mercury Nightmare

I urge you to think before you replace the incandescent bulbs in your home.

A broken CFL bulb cost a family in Maine $2,004.28 to remove the mercury from their home. The annual savings in electricity would've been $180.

Do the math, because the enviro-greenies don't know how.

Scotty Beamed Up

Cremains Of ‘Star Trek's’ Scotty and NASA Astronaut Go Into Space On Saturday

Godspeed.

:-)

Bernstein Book

Carl Bernstein's at it again. This time he's writing an unauthorized biography of Hillary...

BOOK TO SPILL ON HILL:
BERNSTEIN USES HER PAL'S NOTES TO PEN TELL-ALL

Yeah, right.

Don't expect much from this "tell all". Bernstein has been around long enough to know that people who cross the Clintons end up dead often under unusual circumstances.

Look at the list for yourselves THE CLINTON BODY COUNT .

Chilling stuff.

MIT Dean Toss

Marilee Jones, Dean of Admissions at MIT for 28 years, has admitted she "misrepresented" her credentials and has resigned.

Dean At M.I.T. Resigns, Ending A 28-Year Lie

Ms. Jones, 55, representing herself as "a scientist by training" at Albany Medical College, Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, had, in fact, no degrees from any of those places, or anywhere else, M.I.T. officials said.

This is just one reason why I dislike affirmative action hirings and quotas. This woman was hired in 1979 to lead to lead the recruitment efforts for women. The emphasis should be on hiring competent people, not filling a quota.



Contrary to popular belief, Dean Jones did not participate as the target in the Annual MIT Piano Toss in which a piano is tossed from the Baker House to mark the last date to drop classes for the spring term.

There must not be too many music majors at MIT.

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

...the new breed of cat ready to be shipped to Japan ;-)

Happy Friday everybody!

Ewe Are Not Too Bright

Thousand of rich Japanese women were conned by a firm into believing LAMBS were valuable miniature POODLES.

Ewe've Been Conned Ladies

Which just goes to show you...

Intelligence Not Linked To Wealth, According To US Study

Sheesh, they had to do a study to arrive at that conclusion.

Un-Rosie View

Exclusive: O'Donnell Leaving 'The View'

Somewhere there rings the laughter of a happy Star Jones today.

Planet X

Found 20 Light Years Away: The New Earth

Gliese 581c is the first exoplanet (a planet orbiting a star other than our own Sun) that is anything like our Earth.

Mirror Earth?

Fascinating.

Attack VP

"I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with the administration's chief attack dog," Reid said of Vice President Cheney.

Cheney, Reid Spar Over Iraq Policy

Typical liberal ploy. You say you won't name-call while you name-call!

I have a few names for you, Senator Reid...

Coward. Traitor. Cut and run defeatocrat. Or just Democrat.

Snapple

:-)

From XKCD.com

Defeatocrats

Is Pelosi praying for a clue? Not on your life.

Democrats Challenge Bush On Iraq Bill

This has been going on for weeks now. Meanwhile, the troops need the money now!

The liberals don't support the troops. They support America's defeat.

Square Crow

Eco-nuts Sheryl Crow and Laurie David finished up their two-week Stop Global Warming College Tour and the resulting blog reads like greenie eco-drivel.

Saving The Earth: The Biodiesel Bus Blog

One square of toilet paper per sitting?

No wonder poor Karl Rove became annoyed when the Dirty Duo approached his table at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night.

At This Dinner, A Dollop of Vitriol

Sheryl, I assume you can't spare a square, but can you please spare us the lecture about your lack of personal hygiene.

We don't want to know.

Really.

Ewwww.