CAT IN THE BAG: April 2009

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Flu Pandemic a Hoax

Michele Bachmann Earns

Clown Status in House

"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter," said Bachmann. "And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."

As the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages points out, Bachmann has the 1970s flu outbreak all wrong. It happened in 1976 when Gerald Ford was in office.

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I Hate Days Like This . . .

Uphill all the way . . .

O-Meri-ca

I thought Obama did a good presser last night. Happy 100 days Dude.

Well, This Explains It . . .

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Textile ReCyling Found in Africa

"This construction is part of the artist's Gawu series that includes a number of "cloths" made with recycled metals--liquor bottle tops, evaporated milk tins and wire--that were gathered in and around Nsukka, Nigeria, where the artist lives and works. While the artist addresses global ideas about the environment, consumerism and the social history and memory of the "stuff" of our lives, his use of recycled materials also recognizes that human creativity and ingenuity are employed in creating something from available resources, including items that are discarded. The artist's "cloth" works also celebrate the woven and stamped textile traditions that remain vibrant in Ghana and Nigeria today."

Fabulous Forties

Angela Morgan

GALLERY

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Best Hat Pick This Week

Sent in from Brad Jones in Vermont, Thanks Brad!

Peek a Boo

Give me that cuddly Panda!

I Scream for Ice Cream

I can feel Summer right around the next corner.

First Cup Always Hits the Right Spot

More Coffee Please!

Helping Hands

This looks like the bottom of my Hoosier cabinet.

Name the City

I love this night shot of it.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

LOL Specter Dumps Party of NO

How much more can the Republicans take? Demoralized, shrinking and seemingly lacking an agenda beyond the word "no," Republicans today saw their ranks further thinned with the stunning news that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter is switching parties and will run for reelection in 2010 as a Democrat.

by Dan Balz

WaPo

ahhhh YES . . . Retirement . . .

I've often been asked, 'What do you old folks do now that you're retired'? Well..I'm fortunate to have an engineering/science background, and one of the things I enjoy most is turning beer, wine, Scotch, and margaritas into urine.

Oh Yes, Sign of Our Times Here in the U.S.

Even my cats!

Yummy!

Chicken Satay

RECIPE

And They Call This a Sport?

Redneck killing wildlife from back porch.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Climb Every Mountain?

Do my lying eyes deceive me? Or maybe this is a really good photo shop.

"GO BO"

What a wonderful cover idea for the New Yorker Magazine.

. . . "and Don't Forget the Dinner Rolls"

This is the first time I've seen this Last Kiss on the net. Maybe I'll feature John Lustig cartoons once a week or include them in the Sunday Funnies.

Stop for Some Pot

Might need some just to get to work today.

Spring Fashions Hit the Runways in Paris

Famous Illustrator Aurore de Morinerie brushed the above. Also known for other illustrations, especially birds, you can see a sampling of what is available to buy HERE.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Can't Wait for Winter . . .

Can You?

Sunday Morning

Two shall be born, the whole wide world apart,

And speak in different tongues and have no thought

Each of the other's being, and no heed.

And these, o'er unknown seas, to unknown lands

Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death;

And all unconsciously shape every act

And bend each wandering step to this one end -

That, one day, out of darkness they shall meet

And read life's meaning in each other's eyes.

And two shall walk some narrow way of life

So nearly side by side that, should one turn

Ever so little space to left or right,

Their needs must stand acknowledged, face to face.

And, yet, with wistful eyes that never meet

And groping hands that never clasp and lips

Calling in vain to ears that never hear,

They seek each other all their weary days

And die unsatisfied - and this is Fate!

~ Susan Marr Spalding [1841-1908]

Sunday Funnies

Funnies

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The Wingnuts

Gotta be Glenn Beck in the chair.

Political Humor

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Funnies

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Makes Ya Think, Don't It?

Leonard Matlovich, R.I.P.

WIKI

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Caturday with the Cat Goddess and All Her Friends

Well . . . maybe not all of them but as many as I could fit in today.

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See My Ears?

Yes . . . What RRRR Dey?

I Didn't Know That . . .

Those furballs I cough up are presents ...

whys you keep tossing them in the garbage?

Look . . . Zoey's Off Her Rocker

Come here you little furrr ball.

Copy Cats?

Sure looks like it to me.

Caturday Night Live?

Is that Toonses driving?

Mr Fixit

Hey that's my line.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Cheney Should Be in Jail

U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times was a "success" that produced actionable intelligence.

"Cheney is full of crap," one intelligence source with decades of experience said Tuesday.

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