Monthly Archives: August 2006

This Is The secretary of state??

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She said:

“I can tell you that nothing has really taken me aback more as secretary of state than the way that the politics of energy is–I will use the word `warping’ diplomacy around the world,” Rice told Congress in April. “It has given extraordinary power to some states that are using that power in not very good ways for the international system, states that would otherwise have very little power.”
Coming from a former Chevron board member, Rice’s shock is puzzling.

Puzzling??

I think it is quite reasonable to expect the secretary of state to have a clue prior to taking office!

Friday Ark #99

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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….?

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  • 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. (71 shouts as of 08/10)

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 124th edition, 8/6 is up at TBIFOC. The 125th edition will be hosted by blog d’Ellison on 8/13. 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 29th edition is up and hosted by Alis Volat Propiis The 30th edition will be hosted on 8/17 by Burning Silo.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 11th edition is up at Words & Pictures. The 11th edition will be hosted August 31st by Sunbeams From Cucumbers.

Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
Note: Boarders marked with an asterisk were brought forward from #98 because our crew did not get them boarded.
Cats

  • Blog d’Elisson: 125th Carnival of the Cats

    • Invertebrates

    BirdsOther VertebratesDogsIn 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….

    The other day…

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    The other day they waited, the sky was dark and faded,

    On the rail at the Greek…

    Solemnly they stated, “He has to die, you know he has to die.”

    It was one of those moments so many have had…

    All the children learnin’, from books that they were burnin’,

    Eye contact with Garcia from 20 feet away…

    Every leaf was turnin’, to watch him die, you know he had to die.

    You knew what was coming…

    The summer sun looked down on him,

    Yet it was always new…

    His mother could but frown on him,

    I remember it as if it happened, well, is still happening…

    And all the other sound on him,

    Anything and everything is possible….

    He had to die, you know he had to die.

    Rest In Peace: Jerry Garcia

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    We are back from an all to brief vacation and 4+ days completely offline…???
    Yea, there was a bit of withdrawal but it was pretty easy to treat with heavy doses of conversation with relatives, long time friends and architects/builders.

    I’m on the road again tomorrow and expect at most 1-2 posts before this week’s Ark starts boarding. All the boarders who did not make it on to last week’s sailing will lead off their respective categories this week in, as usual, order received. They will also get a second full line for this week’s boardings…our usual practice is one line per category per human sponsor.