Monthly Archives: May 2006

Friday Ark #86

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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 (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.). Also note that all comments are now moderated,
  • 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. (61 shouts as of 05/11)

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 112th edition is hosted this week by Watermark. 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 23rd edition is up and hosted by birdDC. The 24th edition will be hosted on 5/25 by Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The eigth edition is up at Get Busy Livin’, or Get Busy Bloggin’. The 9th edition will be hosted at the end of may by Burning Silo.

Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
Cats

DogsBirdsInvertebratesOther VertebratesIn Memoriam
Didn’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….

Florida Recount Redux

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jennifer dunn sets the record straight on who katherine harris was serving during the recount:

Former Republican Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn of Washington was sticking up for Harris, whom she described as a friend. Among her talking points was that Harris had done “yeoman’s service for president Bush”* during the 2000 recount. Of course, the official GOP talking point has always been that Harris served no one but the law. “I was just doing my job,” Harris likes to say. Nice to hear someone finally say what we know they’re thinking.

Yep, it’s a little bit clearer now what her job was and it had nothing to do with being a public servant.

Via horsesass.org

Birdwatching Time

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Well, heck, Mike Bergin says it just fine in an early morning email:

Nick of birdDC has thrown down the gauntlet in his excellent presentation of I and the Bird #23. If you can identify 27 birds from the photos he provides, he’ll buy you a Peterson’s Field Guide. Go easy on him!

Nick notes in a comment that just the first to get all 27 gets a field guide…go win it!

Kudos to Qwest and Toss the bushies Out on Their Asses

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They have no respect for you, your privacy or your freedom. Yet it is the protection of these things, your life, your liberty, your pursuit of happiness that supposedly justifies government.
Governments, as history shows, are not always not frequently good and they can get much worse. For instance, most probably acknowledge that stalinist russia, to use a technical term, sucked.
The ongoing parade of bush administration bad acts seems as if it will never end….why, look no further than the next edition of USA Today for the latest:

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

Just go read the rest…
Will we see warrants and probable cause? Nope, likely just the executive order telling folks to break the law, to violate the 4th Amendment. This government need to be eliminated and the companies that are supporting these immoral and unconstitutional programs need to be reorganized, i.e., if there is anything left after they pay the maximum fine/restitution to each individual whose privacy has been compromised.
No matter your political persuasion you should be angry, upset and willing to toss the bastards out because of this type of behavior. It might not be your gang that is using these tools in a few years.
And, yes, kudos to Qwest for saying no!
Via The Left Coaster.