Friday, November 20, 2009

Friday Pussy Blog: Cat On A Hot Shingle Roof Edition

Will fill this space shortly.
Voila!



I'm so exhausted from a workday from hell that I wasn't sure I'd get this done!



Sweet Pea loves to get on the roof and survey his domain.



It was a rainy day and dark. Perfect for bedding down.



Sissy loves her Daddy!



The Tot just wanted to be left alone.
That is, until I got on an important phone call with IT and he decided it was time to get on my desk and try to get in my lap!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

90 Seconds

That's how long it takes to ruin a wedding.



1 in 4

That's the number of people with mortgages in Florida who are behind on payments.

That's an economy on the rebound?

Nationally, it's one in ten who were behind at least one payment in the last quarter.

The delinquency figure, and a corresponding rise in the number of those losing their homes to foreclosure, was expected to be bad. Nevertheless, the figures underlined the level of stress on a large segment of the country, a situation that could snuff out the modest recovery in home prices over the last few months and impede any economic rebound.

Unless foreclosure modification efforts begin succeeding on a permanent basis — which many analysts say they think is unlikely — millions more foreclosed homes will come to market.

“I’ve been pretty bearish on this big ugly pig stuck in the python and this cements my view that home prices are going back down,” said the housing consultant Ivy Zelman.

The overall third-quarter delinquency rate is the highest since the association began keeping records in 1972. It is up from about one in 14 mortgage holders in the third quarter of 2008.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Political Reform

Let's keep this simple. Here's what we need:

1. Ban political parties and their machinery. No Democrats, No Republicans, No Greens, no Independents like Lieberman, just people.
2. Ban political contributions greater than $100.
3. Ban political advertisements in any medium, since it's all negative lies and bullshit anyway.
4. Make politicians run on their individual personal platforms.
5. They get their message out via interviews and website propaganda.


Reform. Are you ready?

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The District of Columbia Gets It

DC says no, and rightfully so, to a ballot measure restricting marriage to "a man and woman."

The District of Columbia Board of Ethics and Elections said a measure that would ban same-sex marriages cannot go on the city’s ballot. Opponents of same-sex marriage wanted to ask voters whether “only marriage between a man and woman” should be recognized.

Not that I am firmly convinced such a restriction would pass in DC if put on a ballot, but... you never know. But it's great to see the conservatives getting thwarted by that nasty thing known as Human Rights.
The elections board said that putting a measure to ban same-sex marriage on the ballot would conflict with the city’s Human Rights Act.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Cannabis: It's What's For Dinner

On Friday, the Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon opened its doors at the appropriate time of 4:20.



With so much going wrong in this country, marriage equality setbacks included, it's great to see medical marijuana dispensaries popping up in the few states which have legalized medical marijuana, and this cafe in Portland which provides a safe place for people to medicate together in a community environment. Thankfully, the Justice Department of the Obama Administration has bigger fish to fry. They always did.

I'll bet it smells divine in there!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Unholy Matrimoney

Kan I haz porridge wit dat?



Nothing pisses me off more than losing my human rights except losing them to a group comprised of people who have never been in close proximity to a dickshunairy.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Lay It All Out There




You're a whore. You're a whore for a support mechanism.


Yeah, but I never burned a Jew for daring to run for re-election.

Oh, that. Well they were free in the mail and we were living in a gay/jesuit Hebrew dustruct, and therewith it fell.... into tunnels of the hell I don't believe in.

Shake me when it's over.

I liked living among Jews with sidebars.

28 Heshvan 5770 in Jerusalem

Friday, November 13, 2009

Friday Pussy Bowls

For the past couple of weeks, some raccoon or other critter has been making off with the cat food bowls. I had two stainless steel bowls on the patio and one morning I found one about 20 feet away and never found the other one. Then the next morning the remaining steel bowl was missing again along with a plastic bowl.

After finding the steel bowl a second time, it disappeared yet again and I haven't found it. But I did find a solution to this nagging problem.



Sweet Pea is wondering why the hell I'm taking photos of the bowls instead of filling them with chicken parts.

Using two Amy's vegetarian frozen entree bowls and a piece of wood I found in the garage, I screwed each bowl into the wood to secure it into place. Several days have passed and those bowls haven't gone anywhere.

UPDATE: Caught in the Act tonight! They left without any bowls.



Friday Pussy Blog: Shoe Fetish Edition



Tater Tot has a definite shoe fetish. He naps in the bedroom against my walking shoes (which by the way, have over 300 miles on them although I am a few miles shy of hitting 300 miles since my official walking regimen began back in May -- I probably had walked close to 100 in them when I worked downtown) and also loves my Birkenstocks.



I can always tell when he's been on them because he creates an indentation which remains after he leaves the room.



Sissy is just being the usual bed slut.


The boys outside, Sweet Pea and Tiger, wondering when the food is coming.

Happy Friday!!

I have a 4-day weekend ahead of me so perhaps I can get back to some serious blogging over the weekend and into next week. We shall see.