Yearly Archives: 2006

Feeding At The Trough

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Well, it looks like one porker has replaced another:

And far from trying to put the brakes on lobbyists and the money they channel into Republican coffers, Mr. Boehner, who has portrayed his ties to Washington lobbyists as something to be proud of, has stepped on the gas.

Let’s stop giving these congress critters our money to dole out to the highest bidder.

Via Kevin Drum who probably doesn’t agree with cuttinng off congressional access to our wallets.

Friday Ark #95

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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 (moderated) or trackback (may be broken) 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. (67 shouts as of 07/13)

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 120th edition, 7/9 is up at Music and Cats. The 121st edition will be hosted by Musings… on 7/16. 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 27th edition is up and hosted by 10,000 Birds. The 28th edition will be hosted on 7/20 by Bogbumper.

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.
Cats

Rain In Salem For the First Time

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Well, for the first time since 1892:

….it hadn’t rained in Oregon’s capital on July 12 since record-keeping began in 1892.
Thirty years later, in 1928, the official weather station began keeping weather data at Salem Municipal Airport, and the streak continued.

Nope, it doesn’t rain all the time in the Pacific Northwest.