Bout time too, a reversal at the polls. McCain now leads.

McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama’s solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.

Mr. Um Uh Inarticulate Stutter Stutter no longer has the lead. Yes I saw the Rick Warren appearance. He’s nothing without a script. How sweet it is. Now if McCain can keep it up (until he gets elected), all will be well. Depends on the price of oil and Ms. Pelosi I think.

The thought of Obama as Commander in Chief scares me.

This is rich.

“That hairline difference between nuance and what appears to be flip-flopping is hurting him with liberal voters,” Zogby said.

Stands to reason if Obama is going to nuance himself to the middle, he will lose the left. McCain doesn’t have to nuance himself to the middle, he is already there.

If you’re planning on getting a new computer, might want to wait for these, sure to be awesome.

Because of that and other tweaks, Intel said its new design, which is code-named Nehalem, will triple the speed at which data can be written to memory or read back, compared to previous generations. Intel says Nehalem also will have nearly double the 3-D animation capabilities as past chips, and better utilize the multiple “cores,” or processing engines, on each chip.

Impressive. Sure to be in a gamer’s dream machine. Alienware is bound to have it in their computers right off. Stuff they have now is nothing to sneeze at although computers tend to be pricey.

…Intel said four-core Nehalem chips, which are due to be in production by the end of 2008 and will first target servers and desktop computers and later laptops, have the ability to turn individual cores on and off and can be programmed to boost the speed of active cores when the workload ramps up.

Guessing these will go in the high-priced end of the line. Of course, one could build their own. Cheaper. Unless one wants an Apple computer. Or the aforementioned Alienware computer. Then he’ll pay. Dearly. Btw, Dell bought out Alienware so I don’t know if they are as good as they used to be. Maybe. Maybe not.

Of course, such power begs the question, “Do I really need that much power?” Probably not unless one is a hard-core gamer. Still, nice to contemplate. Power-hungry as I am.

NATO finally gets off it’s collective butt and does something about Russia’s occupation of Georgia which shows no signs of a pullout.

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Tuesday the alliance was freezing regular contacts with Russia until Moscow had fully withdrawn its troops from Georgia in line with a peace deal.

Not much but it is something. Don’t hold your breath expecting that to take place.

The move drew sharp condemnation from Moscow, where Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the alliance of bias and wanting to support a “criminal regime” in Tbilisi.

So now it’s a “criminal regime” is it? Gives an idea where Russia is going with this.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, whose country has long backed Georgia’s aspirations to join NATO, said he believed Russia’s actions in the conflict was sparking an “intellectual sea change” in the West over Moscow’s behavior in the region.

“It’s not everyday that a sovereign country is invaded and wrecked … The events of the last few weeks should make us all realize that Russia means business,” he told Reuters.

And how. Bout time someone took notice. Now if they would do something concrete before Russia invades another country. And another. And another. Note despite agreeing to withdraw, Russia is still there. In Georgia. Wrecking havoc and showing no signs of leaving. Some even doubt Russia will leave.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner joined the call for Russia to withdraw but said he was starting to doubt that Russia would honor its pledge to pull back.

“I hope that I am wrong and that right now these beginnings of these movements which have been signaled — but they were also signaled yesterday, you know — will result in a real departure, but I am not sure,” he told reporters.

The optimist in me hopes Russia will pull out as agreed and the crisis will be defused. But I doubt it considering Putin’s ambition to regain all of the old U.S.S.R.’s old territory. I also doubt we will do much to upset relations with Russia as Russia has oil.

It’s time for another Tummy Tuesday with Meowza who is always willing to share his tummy.

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Colors back to normal pink to match Meowza’s nose. I kindof liked the violet ‘cept it didn’t match the header. Now to go to sleep. Upgrade tomorrow, 2.6.1 is out and I’m getting the nag screen. Might as well upgrade.

Daddy, please don’t look so sad,
Mama please don’t cry~
“Cause I am in the arms of Jesus
and He sings me lullabies.”
Please, try not to question God,
Don’t think he is unkind
Don’t think He sent me to you,
and then He changed his mind.
You see, I am a special child,
and I’m needed up above
I’m the special gift you gave Him,
the product of your love.
I’ll always be there with you
and watch the sky at night,
Find the brightest star that’s gleaming,
That’s my halo’s brilliant light.
You’ll see me in the morning frost,
that mists your window pane.
That’s me in the summer showers,
I’ll be dancing in the rain.
When you feel a little breeze,
from a gentle wind that blows
That’s me, I’ll be there,
planting a kiss on your nose.
When you see a child playing,
and your heart feels a little tug,
That’s me, I’ll be there,
giving your heart a hug.
So Daddy, please don’t look so sad,
Mama don’t your cry.
I’m in the arms of Jesus
and He sings me lullabies.

Author~Claudette T. Allen

And all I’ve done is a mess around with bloggy colors cause I’m sure to oversleep and miss half of Saturday. Which is when peeps are remembering Violette Noelle “Sprout”, Monty Q’s baby bean who died suddenly after a tragic fall. In her brief life she touched the hearts of many in the Cat Blogosphere and her loss is deeply felt. Her family is devastated and need our prayers and support. Got mine.

Here’s a kitty pic to satisfy all the cat lovers.

Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos is cancelled due to sadness at the loss of Sprout.

And the kitty carnivals go on, most of them anyway:

Carnival of the Cats at Skittles the Huntress
Friday Ark at the Modulator always
Weekend Cat Blogging at CatSynth

Not one to mince words here, Russia shows it’s intent is less than peaceful when it comes to it’s (the U.S.S.R.’s) former satellites.

Poland and the United States on Thursday signed a deal for Poland to accept a missile interceptor base as part of a system the United States says is aimed at blocking attacks by rogue nations. Moscow, however, feels it is aimed at Russia’s missile force.

“Poland, by deploying (the system) is exposing itself to a strike — 100 percent,” Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of staff, was quoted as saying.

He added, in clear reference to the agreement, that Russia’s military doctrine sanctions the use of nuclear weapons “against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons if they in some way help them.” Nogovitsyn that would include elements of strategic deterrence systems, he said, according to Interfax.

Threatening to use nukes, that’s some serious rhetoric there. And the missiles aren’t even deployed. Gee, what will they do once they are? Georgia could give a clue here. Russia isn’t all talk and no action here. It’s very much action of the worst kind. This could get very ugly before it’s all over.

Of course, the reason Russia has opposed Poland getting the defensive missiles might be cause it intended to take it back all along and wants to minimize opposition to it’s invading.

Cold war back on possibly.

Hattip Smooth Stone.

Update: More info and a quote here. I was wrong about Russia wanting to minimize opposition here, seems even with the shield, Poland is no match for Russia’s nuclear arsenal. So I don’t know why Russia is so worked up about it. An excuse to crush Poland methinks.

The Kremlin has long said that was untrue, and has opposed the shield as a threat to Russia. The 10 interceptor missiles to be based at a site in northern Poland compare with Russia’s own nuclear arsenal of more than 5,000 ballistic warheads.

In agreeing to deploy elements of the U.S. missile shield, Poland “becomes an actionable object. Those targets are destroyed in the first order,” Nogovitsyn said.

And just what good will a nuked country do Russia as a satellite? Wonder if Russia will go with a standard non-nuclear invasion instead. Whatever, Russia is acting more like the enemy the U.S.S.R. was.

Oil just keeps slipping, how nice for us. Especially if gasoline prices follow.

Light, sweet crude dropped $3.17 to $111.84 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange and earlier traded as low as $111.34.

Oil’s continuing slide, part of an overall decline in commodities prices, was welcome news to investors who have been concerned for months that record-high prices for energy would force consumers to keep cutting back their discretionary spending. Oil is down more than $35 from its July 11 record of $147.27…

Still cutting back my discretionary spending. Food prices are still way up there. And I’m on a fixed income.

Maybe. Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf is resigning. It was that or be impeached. Wonder if his replacement will be friendly to the U.S.. Pakistan does have nukes. And terrorists, al Qaida anyway. Some people are a bit nervous.

The long-running crisis surrounding Musharraf’s future has heightened concern in the United States and among other allies about the stability of the nuclear-armed Muslim state, which is in the front line of the campaign against militancy.

We’ll know soon enough if Pakistan is stable. Then there’s the whole Russia-Georgia thing and Russia does have nukes. More than one country to be concerned about.

The Financial Times said Musharraf had demanded he be allowed to retire to his farm in Islamabad and that there be no moves to prosecute him once out of office. It quoted an official as saying the powerful army had insisted Musharraf’s demands be met.

I can think of a certain former President that should retire to his farm instead of going about making trouble overseas. Maybe Musharraf could set a good example here.

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So I’m finally commenting on this week’s hostilities. Or last week’s, ongoing conflict.

Saakashvili said earlier he had agreed to a plan proposed by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner under which hostilities would end, a mixed peacekeeping force would be deployed — replacing the purely Russian one — and troops would return to pre-conflict positions.

But a senior U.S. official, who spoke on condition he not be named, said the outlook was “grim” and that Russia had planned its moves in Georgia for some time.

“This appears to be a full invasion of Georgia with an end result uncertain and an objective that is not clear but appears to be aggressive in nature,” said the official. “Words like invasion should not be used lightly but this is an invasion.”

A Russian peacekeeping force doesn’t make sense considering who the aggressor is. Better to deploy a mixed force unless it’s U.N. peacekeepers. They are less than useless. After all, they stood by while Hezbollah rearmed itself to the teeth. Terrorists have more weapons than before that ill-fated conflict.

Doesn’t Russia want to regain all the territory that was in the U.S.S.R., squash all those democratic countries? Putin must miss the old days. No democracy then, little now. Reminds me of the runup to WWII. But then Russia has a way of meddling in other countries affairs. It is a bit heavy handed in it’s approach.

Just remembered it was Tuesday and you know what that means… tummies.

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Got the weirdest letter from Social Security, wasn’t an approval or denial, was a temporary password, not knowing if I was approved as most claims get denied first time out, I created a password and logged on. I was approved, now I just need a letter stating such. Insurance company requires it. I’ll call them in the morning. Maybe they sent it already and I just didn’t get it. Mail is slow that way.

But now I don’t have to hire an attorney to fight the denial.

Guess that makes me certifiably disabled.

More good news about the price of oil. Said price drop being due to decreased demand at the pump cause it costs so damn much to fill up. Once the price of gas goes down, if it does, demand will go back up as will the price of oil.

Light, sweet crude fell $1.79 to $113.41 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after dipping as low as $112.72, oil’s lowest level since early May. Oil traders appeared to set aside uneasiness about fighting between Russia and Georgia that had raised the possibility of supply disruptions in the region; they focused instead on a report from China that its crude oil imports fell significantly in July.

Now if that would only be transferred to lower prices at the pump and lower costs for groceries, that would be really good news. Especially if it lasts which I doubt.

In midafternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 55.20, or 0.47 percent, to 11,789.52, after being up more than 130 points earlier. The gains Monday follow the blue chips’ 300-point jump Friday.

Stocks still have a way to go, trading well below it’s peak of 14,164.53. Doubt it will get up there considering the grim economic news which I expect will only get grimmer. Company quarterly reports continue to be dismal and the banking crisis is far from over. Inflation is still an issue as is the recession. Gee, bright ray of enthusiasm I am. Not!

No, this isn’t Carnival of the Meezers, it’s what I, Meowza, could find in Mog’s files to mess with. Deal. I’m no graphic artist either. I’m a cat.

“See, all cat!”

Now that we have that settled on with the Carnival.

	Hakuna plays hide and seek with a neighbor cat. Someone is not amused. Rather like last night when I came in bringing Cece with me at 2AM. Mog was not amused either. Hey, Cece was easy to find, went straight for the food is why.
	Aww, look at all the pretty kitties lined up for chowing down. Brings saliva to my mouth. So feed me already, never mind I ate an hour ago.
	Cheysuli posts her first campaign commercial. That meezer rules.
	TiGrr says it’s bed time. And I agree, any time is bed time except feeding time and play time.
	Miss Abby gives us raspberries, and not the eating kind. Such a silly kitty.
	Contrasting odors, Parker gets off the V.E.T. stink. Must have been a fun visit. Like any visit to the V.E.T. is fun.
	Blueberry shows off a couple of cats which she claims are not hers. When you leave out treats for them, expect you’ll have a couple more cats.
	Here’s a little kitty hiding in a little paper bag. They do make nice play spots and when you tire of them, you can pee in it and cause your human to react in amusing ways when he finds it.
	Mr Milky is a cat in need, in need of a bath, in need of meds, in need of the operation and in need of green papers to pay the vet for all of the above.
	Mischief crashes out while Hi watches on from a distance. Cats get along well I see. I’d like to be there. Sleeping in a bean’s bed. Heaven.
	Man, sleeping must be the in thing, Mini does it too. Ah, it’s a cat thing.
	Play is another good thing and Audace and Grace have a new toy. Looks like fun. Say Mog, next time you’re at WalMart, pick us up one.
	Miss Lizzie makes better use of Photoshop Elements than I do, nice portrait. Very nice portrait.
	Mycah looks pretty on her Gizzy but she’s one sick kitty. Send her some purrs and purrayers.
	Kashim and Othello know what to do when it’s hot outside. Unsure if they know what to do with the she-kitty thou. And they have a spiffy new bloggy design. Check it out.
	They also know how to announce Weekend Cat Blogging in style. Way to go kitties.
	Cat and cheese or cat and poster of cat about cheese. Cat in poster looks suspiciously like Luna.
	Maximum Leader is being a good nurse to her bean. Maybe. Well, what else is a cat supposed to do? Least her bean has a sense of humor. Hoping bean gets to feeling better soon, better to love the kitty.
	Ellie is one silly kitty, getting stuck and all. Good place for a nap thou, she’s unlikely to be disturbed unless she wants down.
	Samantha and Mr Tigger check out their nice green yard. Grass for nibbling. Yum. Me jealous. OK, so we have a little in the back yard, still place looks too much like a desert. Grass is good. So is dirt, good for rolling in. Gravel not so much.
	Two links caught in the spam trap, so here they are. Tiny became a bleached blond babe. Who hoo kittycat!
	Baby in intent on lunch, can’t blame the kitty. But that cat looks gorgeous before mealtime, I just look hungry. There is no justice. Paris Hilton, eat your heart out. Now Tiny after dinner, priceless.

That wraps it up for this week except for late comers. Which will be added. Thanks for coming all. Next week’s Carnival of the Cats is at the Skittles the Huntress. Submit here or email your cats to carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com.

Other weekend cat carnivals:

Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos at Samantha Black at the Tuxedo Gang Hideout
Optional Theme - KittyCats & Flowers
Friday Ark at the Modulator always
Weekend Cat Blogging at HotMBC

Technorati tags: carnival of the cats, CoTC, cat

OK, so I’m watching this video on food storage and I got a little jealous. So much food, lots and lots of food. They all have basements, something my mom had. She had food stored but not as much as these ladies. Boggles the mind. Also jiggles it, too fast panning. Interesting viewing especially if you’re LDS as these women are.

It’s a good idea to have some stored up in case of just about anything from disasters to becoming disabled as I did. Would have helped had I had more cat food stored up for these lean times. Little beggars always wanting the expensive stuff too.

Hat tip Survival Blog. No, I’m not a survivalist, just it links the most interesting stuff.

Cece is one heavy cat as I discovered when I picked him up this morning. To escort him out. At 2AM. Meowza came in with Cece right behind. Cat moves fast.

Oh, I discovered the origin of his name, the momma bean named him C.C. for crippled cat. She calls his brother, Oliver, F.C. for fat cat.

C.C. or Cece (as the daughter spelled it) stuck. He has no other name.

Now if it would only get cooler then he would come over in the day time which is better for picture taking. Even my cats don’t like the heat. Neither do I.

Another magical date perhaps. Wonder what people will do with it if anything? Probably nothing but an interesting number. Doubt it can be LOLCatted thou, the number I mean. The post definitely.

And Meowza’s Greenies arrived today. He hasn’t had a chance to eat them as he was just fed when I got the mail. He’ll get them later along with the rest of the kitties.

When I get back from being gone.

Today is the Official LOLCat Day and the site has been LOLCatted accordingly thanks to this plugin I have. Here is sample LOLCat for those that don’t know about these things.

more cat pictures

And a regular, run of the mill bad cat.

“Oh poo! Not me hosting.”

Meowza will be hosting the Carnival of the Cats come Sunday. Submit here or email your cats to carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com. Might want to use the form as the email address has been LOLCatted.

Other weekend catting: BKCFoC ARK WCB

Oil dropped again, this is the lowest I’ve seen it in months.

A strengthening dollar helped lower the price of a barrel of oil. Light, sweet crude fell $3.93 to $116.09 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Investors are eager to see any easing of inflation pressures and have cheered a pullback of about $30 a barrel from its mid-July high.

Course that fueled stocks going higher reversing yesterday’s sell-off. Recap follows.

In late afternoon trading, the Dow rose 193.21, or 1.69 percent, to 11,624.64. The blue chips fell nearly 225 points Thursday after concerns about the financial sector, a weak showing by retailers in July and a spike in weekly unemployment claims. The decline erased most of the 370-point gain the Dow had logged over the prior two sessions.

Which is good, always nice to have some good news. Now if that is reflected at the pump, it will be even better news.

I’m slow, very slow. I have not finished reading Breaking Dawn. OK, so this morning there were four of us sitting around a table working on a humanitarian project and they all have read it, couple even finished it. I’m guessing they don’t blog. I know it’s a fast read but reading all 754 pages in one day as one did, too fast to savor IMHO. Still, an impressive feat.

I like to let the book last a little while cause it’s usually such a long wait for the next novel to come out. Still waiting on two other series, got another four months wait too. I know I could reread the ones I already have to refresh my memory as others do but I don’t. I just read more books and get hooked on another series.

When not blogging that is.

I was at a friend’s website, er LiveJournal page, and saw she took this quiz. Being curious and having nothing particular to do, I took it. I don’t consider the resullts accurate, just amusing. Sides which, the dog is a nice change from cats. Yeah, right!

Your result for The Best Thing About You Test…

Compassion

Compassion is the most human of the virtues. And you? Your heart has limits far beyond normal levels empathy, and your capacity for feeling the world’s pain is boundless. You poor, beautiful, wonderful thing. All 7 virtues are a part of you, but your compassion runs deepest.

It is likely you’re an altruist. And it’s likely (but not necessarily true, think of Bono) that your humility score is high too.

Compassionate famous people: Brad Pitt, Mother Theresa, The A-Team.

Your raw relative scores follow. 0% is low, and 100% is perfect, nearly impossible. Note that I pitted the virtues against each other, so in some way these are relative scores. It’s impossible to score high on all of them, and a low score on one is just relatively low compared to the other virtues.

YOUR VIRTUES

60% Compassion

44% Intelligence

50% Humility

56% Honesty

13% Discipline

57% Courage

33% Passion

Take The Best Thing About You Test at HelloQuizzy

COMPARED TO OTHER TAKERS

60/100 You scored 60% on Compassion, higher than 60% of your peers.
23/100 You scored 44% on Intelligence, higher than 23% of your peers.
32/100 You scored 50% on Humility, higher than 32% of your peers.
29/100 You scored 56% on Honesty, higher than 29% of your peers.
11/100 You scored 13% on Discipline, higher than 11% of your peers.
68/100 You scored 57% on Courage, higher than 68% of your peers.
11/100 You scored 33% on Passion, higher than 11% of your peers.

They’re the usual trouble but did lay in the sun so I could get some pics. Here’s one of Bazel who will not be hosting Carnival of the Cats come Sunday. Meowza will. Bazel had his turn already with the Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos which suited him as he is a bad kittycat.

Submit here or email your cats to carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com. Kittycats safer in the computer than in the house.

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Cause I’ve been busy reading my latest novel, Breaking Dawn, which is #1 on Amazon.com. Had it all of three days and I’m 1/4 of the way through, a feat for me as it is 754 pages long. It’s a fast-paced novel with a lot of action and surprises so I won’t give anything away. Sides spoilers abound in the reviews at Amazon.com. Don’t read them.

That and laying on an icepack all day. For some unknown reason I woke to severe pain in the low back, not the sciatica I had been having and was getting used to, but a new old pain. Sucks when it hurts all the time. Least the ice helps.

Oh and I found this amusing fact all the way down at 24.

24. There is roughly $6.84 Trillion in bank deposits. $2.60 Trillion of that is uninsured. There is only $53 billion in FDIC insurance to cover $6.84 Trillion in bank deposits. Indymac will eat up roughly $8 billion of that.

25. Of the $6.84 Trillion in bank deposits, the total cash on hand at banks is a mere $273.7 Billion. Where is the rest of the loot? The answer is in off balance sheet SIVs, imploding commercial real estate deals, Alt-A liar loans, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds, toggle bonds where debt is amazingly paid back with more debt, and all sorts of other silly (and arguably fraudulent) financial wizardry schemes that have bank and brokerage firms leveraged at 30-1 or more. Those loans cannot be paid back.

Gives one warm fuzzies doesn’t it. Yes, your money is insured but how much would you get if there were a run on all the troubled banks? Not much I’m afraid, not much. Read the whole article, very interesting precipice we be on.

I’m easily amused up to a point. There is another dead bird out front I need to take care of. Somebody’s getting good at catching them. Bad kittycat.

Dipping even further into sweet territory, the price of oil. I always love it when that goes down.

Light, sweet crude closed down $3.69, or 2.9 percent, to settle at $121.41 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after Tropical Storm Edouard seemed unlikely to threaten oil and natural gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the lowest settlement price since May 5 and left crude down nearly 20 percent from its July 11 high of $147.27.

That decline eased some of investors’ concerns about inflation. Wall Street initially sold off after the Commerce Department said an inflation gauge tied to consumer spending rose by a sharp 0.8 percent in June, reflecting higher gasoline prices. That was the biggest jump in the indicator since a 1 percent rise in February 1981.

OK, so the stock market declined too, the cost of inflation being the sour point in a sweet day. Hopefully the price of gas goes down correspondingly bringing inflation down eventually. Even the temperature here declined, all of 94° out. Was cloudy this morning is why. Expected to be another cool day out tomorrow too.

I, Bazel, am hosting this Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos cause I played nice with the Squillion. Which is the theme so I’d better be nice. For the piccies. So says Mog. Special banner thanks to Kashim & Othello and momma Astrid. Thankies much. *purrrrrr*

Mog is pleased, Squillion emerged with only a little slobber on it. That’s what she called it anyway, not me.

So on with the festival, kittycats.

	Cat toys, we cats love cat toys and a Weasel ball is no exception. Fun to play with, me want one. Bean Sidhe, hand over that ball!
	Three Cats Stories | Rêve de Chat or how to acquire a cat. Once a cat owns you you’re done for. Especially with ferals.
	Oh Mia, what’s a metrosexual kitty to do. Poor confused human. He states, “The last lady feral I took from streets and did more than feed her proved to be a TomCat. After we equiped her with ladysh name, toys, accesories.”
	What’s Boo up to this fine Friday? Now that’s a tail to tell. Silly kitty.
	Mr Kelly Cat is one handsome cat. Now that’s the way to spend a Friday - lounging on a nice cool lawn. So Mog, where’s our lawn?
	A cool video of kitties wrasslin’ now that’s my kind of fun. Mog’s eyeing me suspiciously, guess she doesn’t think so.
	Cats and birds, what’s not to love. OK, so no pic of the bird for obvious reasons but we have pretty Tabbies. So would that bird be considered stuffed?
	Sanjee has thirteen LOL hotties too cute, especially that gray one in #7, a really good looking kittycat. Remind you of anyone. Moi perhaps. Mog says she likes #6, reminds her of me. Hey!
	Luna got a Snuggle. Watch a vid of her all nipped out. Aren’t they great? I love our my Snuggle, also the ‘nip.
	Hey, Meowza’s on my Snuggle, no fair. Give it back. It’s mine by right of ‘nip.
	sbpoet wrote a cute poem about Dog & Cat complete with a sweet pic. Ending may surprise you. Mind you if it had been me, it would have been a far different ending.
	Public service announcement: Derby donated trillions of Squillions to Moki to be auctioned off to pay for his treatments but the Squillions got loose. They are somewhere around the Cat Blogosphere. Can someone find them.
	Kashim & Othello show off their Mog book and announce this Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos No.56, made me this cool banner too. Thankies much. Mog loves it and the book. Wonders where she can pick up a copy.
	China Cat exploores the great outdoors looking for mousies. In a birdbath?! Too cute.
	Meatloaf on Sunday - that would be Willow, staying in where it’s cool as am I. I don’t go out til the sun goes down.
	Samantha and Mr Tigger pose with their Squillions, way to go kitties. Mog thinks Mr Tigger is one handsome cat. Hey, you’ve got me, that should be enough.

Everyone, thanks for entering. This ends this week’s festival. Maybe. Late-comers will be added.

Submit your cat to the next edition of Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos or email your cats to FestivalChaos(at)GMail.Com.

Next week’s host is Samantha Black @ Tuxedo Gang Hideout.

Past and future hosts can be found at the blog carnival index page.

Check out other spiffy weekend kittycat roundups:

Carnival of the Cats at Samantha Black & Mr Tigger
Friday Ark at the Modulator always
Weekend Cat Blogging at Miz Pet and the Bengal Brats

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Did Meowza’s site last night and mine just now, all running WP 2.6. All plugins up to date too on all the blogs. No more nagging prompts. That done I can concentrate on BKCFoC.

Last night I opened the front door and discovered a present laying there on the ground. How thoughtful. Let’s see, only cat out was Meowza so it must have been from him. Unless Cece was so grateful for the Temptations I gave him that he gifted me in return.

I bagged up the bird and dumped it in the trash first thing this morning.

Sunday, Aug 03, 2008 to be exact, Edition No.56 of the Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos will be here. Submit here or email your cats to FestivalChaos(at)GMail.Com. Kittycats and Squillions. Go for it. Bazel did.

Other weekend catting: CotC ARK WCB

The news just keeps getting better. A peace agreement with either or both the Palestinians and Syria may not be in the offering. And not for any disagreements with Abbas or Syria over sticky points like Israel’s continued existence. Olmert himself is to blame.

An Israeli official close to Olmert, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Olmert would try to reach agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “during the time he has left,” either in his current role or as caretaker leader.

But Israeli lawmakers and analysts doubt Olmert will have the political strength to make commitments, either in the final-status talks with Abbas or in Israel’s Turkish-moderated negotiations with Syria.

“He has no legitimacy, not from the public, nor the Knesset, nor the government, to reach any understandings with the Palestinians or with Syria that would bind the government,” said Communications Minister Ariel Attias of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, a member of Olmert’s governing coalition.

But then again, a deal might go through simply cause a successor may be less likely to give away the farm in any deals. And Bush wants it, really wants it. There will be pressure from Washington.