Yearly Archives: 2005

Friday Ark #55

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Cats, Dogs, Spiders and ? every Friday.
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 or trackback to this post,
  • Use the 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.
Visit each border and come back regularly Friday-Sunday to visit new boarders. And do link to the Friday Ark whether you use trackbacks or not.

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 81th edition will be hosted this week by Ginasrantings. 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.
Bird folks: Remember to submit your links to I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers. The 7th edition is up and hosted by the Bird Treatment Center, Anchorage, Alaska.
New for the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The first edition is up at Milk River Blog.
And, check out Laurence’s fine graphical analysis of Friday Ark boardings.
Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
Alert: There will be no updates today between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM CDT.
Cats

InvertebratesDogsBirdsOther VertebratesIn MemoriamDidn’t Make ItExceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)
For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page 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….

Decades of Patient Effort?

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Let’s see, “patient effort” is now cheney speak for war:

Mr Cheney said that the threat of terrorism would be removed as people in Iraq and the wider Middle East took control of their own lives.
But he added, in a direct appeal to the American people

Like other great duties in history, it will require decades of patient effort, and it will be resisted by those whose only hope for power is through the spread of violence

Hmmm, I wonder if the cheney-bush regime is the only one that can see us safely through this 20 years of patient effort? And it might help to have a true believer on the supreme court just in case the regime doesn’t have quite enough power when needed….
Perhaps we should toss these folks out right now!
Via Billmon.
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Counting Calories and More

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If you count calories, carbohydrates, protein, etc., you may find way more data than you need at foodvalues.us. Search by food name or food group and sort as needed.
It’s fast and you can find out, for instance, that a Taco Bell Taco Salad has 906.1 calories and 15.99 grams of fiber (2nd most in the fast food group).
Via Kidney Notes.

cornyn v miers

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senator john cornyn, rep-tex, joins the executive branch chorus singing the praises of nominee miers and, inter alia, states(reg):

I know that she understands that unelected judges who serve in a democracy have a limited role–to apply the law as it was written by the people’s representatives.

And then quotes her contradicting his view:

She aptly described her judicial philosophy on Monday when she said, “It is the responsibility of every generation to be true to the founders’ vision of the proper role of the courts and our society.” The courts, she continued, have “obligations to strictly apply the laws and the Constitution.”

Being true to the founder’s vision and having “obligations to strictly apply the laws and the Constitution” is dramatically different from applying “..the law as it was written by the people’s representatives.”
This seems, in fact, to be a rather deep difference between cornyn and miers. Perhaps her actions on the court, if approved, will indeed be on the behalf of freedom and liberty. Then, again, she’s been in the executive branch of government for a long time and fully understands doublespeak.
(Ed: emphasis added)
Via Will Baude.