Daily Archives: July 21, 2006


Into A Recovery Program….Now

Let’s put Arthur in charge for a while:

If I had my way, I would immediately order every single one of them out of government and out of public life, and into a War Lovers Anonymous recovery program. And there they can spend their remaining days, and leave the rest of us to sort out our differences and conflicts as best we can. We could not possibly do worse — and I dare to think and hope we would do significantly better.

A day should be long enough to put these folks into padded cells and I doubt Arthur would want to spend more time in one of these immoral roles…though it might take one more day to dismantle a few of the bureaucracies that weigh so heavily on our future.

BTW, we should all be reading Arthur daily!



Friday Ark #96

We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?

We will add your post to the list if you do one of the following:

  • Leave a comment (moderated) or trackback (moderated) to this post (Don’t panic if you get back an “internal server error” message. Haven’t been able to figure out why this is happening but comments still seem to post.).
  • Use the Carnival Submission Form,
  • Use the Blog Carnival Submission Form,
  • Email Modulator or
  • Our extensive staff finds it during our weekly search of the web

Of course, if our staff goes on strike then we will link only those posts someone tells us about. Time permitting we will continue boardings until the Carnival of the Cats goes up on Sunday.

Do link to the Friday Ark whether you use trackbacks or not.

Visit each border and come back regularly Friday-Sunday to visit new boarders.

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (68 shouts as of 07/20)

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 121th edition, 7/16 is up at Musings…. The 122nd edition will be hosted by Creatures of the Earth on 7/23. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff’s Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants. Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 28th edition is up and hosted by Bogbumper The 29th edition will be hosted on 8/3 by Alis Volat Propiis.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 10th edition is up at Science and Sensibility. The 11th edition will be hosted the end of July by Words & Pictures.

Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
Update: Blogs of Summer is taking nominations. There are always lots of kitties on the Ark so head on over and nominate!
Cats

DogsBirdsOther VertebratesInvertebratesIn MemoriamDidn’t Make It
Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)
For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users: Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted “too rapidly” by the same host. I don’t know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I’m sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh….