Monthly Archives: February 2007

Friday Ark #124

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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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NB 2/2:: Access to Modulator was down from late afternoon PST 2/1 until sometime in the wee hours 2//2 because of network problems in the Atlanta area that impacted our hosting service. This has also delayed receipt of boarding email sent directly or via BlogCarnival. Boardings will be delayed.

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Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings. Also, there are more doggies at Weekend Dog Blogging hosted this weekend by Sweetnicks.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 149th edition, 1/28, is up at Mind of Mog. The 150th edition will be hosted by Laurence, the founder, at This Blog is Full of Crap on 2/4. There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging hosted on 2/2-3 by Rosa’s Yummy Yums . 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 41st edition is up and hosted by Snail’s Eye View. The 42nd edition will be hosted on 2/8 by Neurophilosophy.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 17th edition is up at The Voltage Gate. The 17th edition will be hosted at the end of February by Pharyngula.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Over the past month or so Haloscan started (the end of July) handling of trackbacks has improved though it is still pretty broken for carnival type posts. Now, instead of rejecting every attempt to ping it accepts single pings for a while and then will start rejecting them. I will keep trying to track back to Haloscan boarders but can make no guarantees for any particular week.

Note for Typepad Users:

Typepad continues to behave similar to Haloscan for trackbacks. I been able to get trackbacks to most, if not all, Typepad based boarders. I have to do it one at a time and wait a while in between pings but Typepad does not go into semi-permanent rejection mode like Haloscan.

Congratualtions to Mary and Heather

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Mary Cheney and her partner Heather are going to be proud parents! And embroiled in debate.
David at Resurrection Song expresses my sentiments:

While there should never have been any doubt that her pregnancy would become a political issue. With her father being one of the most divisive public figures in the country and issues stemming from her sexuality being some of the more hotly debated topics of the last few years, it was obvious that there would be some questions.
It should be simpler, though. It should be about a choice that Mary Cheney and her partner made and about congratulating them on their good fortune. Unless the couple start beating that kid, fail to provide him with a good home, or are somehow falling down in their parental obligations, there is no public interest here. We can debate abstracts if we really need to, but we can’t–or shouldn’t–debate that child.

Dan Savage agrees that there will be no escaping the politics and makes the point that Mary contributed to these politics, hoist by her own petard:

So welcome to the political debate, Mary, and remember…
Your side started it. It only serves you right that you’re going to have to finish it.
And you might want to have it all wrapped up before your kid is old enough to understand what’s being said about his family by your dad’s political allies. Take it from me, Mary: Explaining to your child, after he heard something hateful on the radio, that his family is very much “real,” that it’s not an attack on anyone else’s family, and that his parents are, in fact, fit to be his parents is as distressing and emotionally exhausting as it is unnecessary. And I blame you.

Mary, congrats again on the future child and welcome to politics.

Florida governor Favors Stealing From The Poor to Give to the Rich

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Yep, governor crist wants to steal more from taxpayers to subsidize wealthy team owners and players:

Gov. Charlie Crist announced he is a fan of using taxpayer money to subsidize sports stadiums.
Crist, a former minor league baseball attorney and one-time college quarterback, said stadiums rev up local economies and benefit communities in other ways.

Hey, if the stadium is a viable business opportunity then it should stand on its own income production. That various tax breaks and subsidies appear to be required argues strongly that the underlying business model is broken. Or that the Marlin’s ownership has figured out a great scam. Or, well, both!

Folks, just say no to subsidizing sports stadiums. The money that is taken from you to “rev up local economies” and so forth is money that you could have spent with some other business or invested for you and your families future.