Our cat Sally could teach infantry tactics at West Point. Earlier this week, T. brought home a cat from her old neighborhood; for the time being, Marley lives in our bedroom while she adjusts to her new digs. When we got up this morning, we found Sally perfectly positioned on the stairs outside of the bedroom. She was on the far left at the top of the staircase, which afforded her both a maximum field of vision and plenty of time to block Marley should she dare to exit the room. Moreover, Sally set herself so that she could easily cut off any desperate attempt to go up the stairs. It was a masterful performance that would impress any cadet...The MSM has begun complaining that Barack Obama has been overly reticent about the details of his stimulus plan, how a Big 3 bailout would work, etc. At the risk of sounding like an apologist, why should he do anything different? First of all, he regrettably is not yet the president. Second, it would distract from the efforts underway. Third, what has happened is the combined result of a disastrous presidency, decades of shortsighted mismanagement, and historical forces that we as a nation have neither recognized nor adapted to. Nothing Obama says or does now will influence the near term, so why not wait until his administration is in place?...
Journalism professor Charles Seiffe writes in The New York Times that the Minnesota senate election is effectively a tie, and that we will never know who won. He's right: When more than 3,000,000 produces produce a winning margin of 215, no recount will ever produce a result that exceeds the margin of error. Minnesota's highly regarded election process appears to have survived the idiotic Republican charges of bias; at this point, we just have to let that process play itself out. For what it's worth, the Franken campaign now claims a 22-vote lead...
Slug to Mutt: "I'm no Sarah Palin." Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Florida congresswoman who hung up on Barack Obama not once but twice, explains what happened here. It turns out that a radio station in her district is notorious for making prank calls to politicians, and she assumed that someone from the station was doing an excellent impression of the president-elect...
R. I. P., Odetta. Read the personal reminiscence on Foxessa's blog here, then watch Odetta's amazing rendition of "House of the Rising Sun:"
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best of luck with sally and marley. we currently have(down to) 4 cats and have very complicated living arrangements. in 2000 my daughter moved to cleveland from washington bringing her two cats - which brought the total count to 6 in the house. her boy cat got along famously with f & my 4 cats, but the girl cat (who was as old as our eldest cat) and our girl cats never adjusted - our boy cat was fine with the two 'new' cats...after much to do we ended up having to create 2 spaces for cats... e moved out years ago, but her cats remained (she moved in with a fellow who had a dog and cat) ... many changes since then, but long story shorter - we still have her cats (though they are now 'ours' as much as a cat can be) and still have complicated living arrangements when it comes to the cats! but everyone is fairly happy as long as stella the studio cat doesn't have the girl cats come into her territory without a supervising human in attendance!
I had the blessing of seeing odetta several times over the years- first time was when I was in h.s. as she performed a lot in the d.c. area. what a powerful presence and voice. gone but she will never be forgotten!
One cat is a soap opera. Six would be the Ring Cycle.
Been a big Odetta fan for a few years. Wonderful storyteller, wasn't she?
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