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The small dead animals blog has a solution to the cat problem. Offsets. Like carbon offsets except that these just might work.

small dead animals: Is Your Cat Ownership Environmentally Sustainable?
It’s a burden of stereotype that all multiple cat owners are forced to bear.

“Cat lady”.

But today, there’s another. Today’s responsible cat owners are being faced with the fact that society is growing increasingly aware that cats are bad for the environment.

They eat songbirds.

So, it’s hard to be a cat person these days. Well, this is where I come in…

Thanks to Michelle Malkin

My Scratch Cat Fever post is here.

Buffalo News: Home

Navy will name ship the USS Jason Dunham
Destroyer honors Iraq War hero from Allegany County
By Jerry Zremski - News Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON — The legacy of an Iraq War hero from Allegany County will be honored on the high seas for years to come.

Members of Congress announced Tuesday that the U.S. Navy will name its newest guided-missile destroyer the USS Jason Dunham – for the Marine corporal from Scio who threw himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades in April 2004.

You are. I’m glad to have you stop by here. I’d also be very happy to hear from you. For now, though, I’m pulling the plug on your ability to comment on these pages. So if you have something to say, there’s a picture of my email address right over there. ->
If you can’t read the title of this post, you’re probably a robot who wants to leave a comment spam like this one:

Hmm… sweet! [*../nice_site2.txt*] ephedra student loan real ringtones

Especially enjoyed the code bug that left the “nice site” filename in the comments.

So, comments are disabled and the recent comment activity monitor is gone from the sidebar.

In its place, I’ve added a feature for sharing items out of my RSS feeds. As I read the day’s news, I’ll tag the things that I might otherwise write a little “Hey Look” post about. I’d like to rise above “Hey Look!” blogging and offer more of what I set out to do, and less of the point-and-shout stuff. This shared RSS content has its own feed .  I’ll get it out of that ugly khaki box soon too.

From MAKE: Blog: the Berkeley public library will let you check out tools too.

I remember going to a library that would let you check out a Polaroid Land camera.

This is really neat, if you live in Berkeley you can check out tools, read the list there are some pretty impressive tools - like cement mixers and demolition hammers!

The Tool Library is restricted to Berkeley residents and to people who own property in Berkeley. To use the Tool Library, bring with you a photo ID, your Berkeley Public Library card and a bill you have received recently. Tool Library staff confirm your Berkeley residence in this way. Once confirmed, the Tool Library staff will stamp your library card with “TLL,” indicating you are eligible to borrow from the Tool Library.

The Makers saw it on Readymademag

Episcopal News Service
To the Archbishop of Canterbury and the members of the Primates’ Standing Committee:We, the Bishops of The Episcopal Church, meeting in Camp Allen, Navasota, Texas, March 16-21, 2007, have considered the requests directed to us by the Primates of the Anglican Communion in the Communiqué dated February 19, 2007.

Although we are unable to accept the proposed Pastoral Scheme, we declare our passionate desire to remain in full constituent membership in both the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church.

They’re not talking about artists hairstyles or hat choices, this study is about eye motion paths through an image. So, they don’t just look different, they do their looking differently.

Cognitive Daily: Artists look different
Stine Vogt and Svein Magnussen showed 16 pictures including these two to trained artists and non-artists (psychologists) enrolled in Norway’s top graduate programs in their respective disciplines, using eye-tracking cameras and software to monitor where they looked.

Via Photon Detector

Don’t miss the comment after the study write-up that calls them out on using psychology students as the “control” group. Maybe the general population does what the artists do, and only psych majors concentrate on the people.

Seems I’m not the only one noticing the seasonality of controversy.

NPR : Religious Controversy in the Spring
Commentator and priest James Martin talks about the seasonal rite of religious controversy.

This 3/4 news story is on The Post Chronicle. More text below the jump.

The author is journalist Pamela Hess, There’s a post referencing her C-span appearance on Hot Air.

By Pamela Hess

Security&Terrorism: Analysis: Fighting To Tame Al-Qaim - The Post Chronicle
Just over a year after a major assault to oust terrorists and insurgents — done at the request and with the help of local Sunni sheiks who had once been insurgent collaborators and now had become their victims — stability seems to have taken root in the Iraqi town of al-Qaim.

More text below the jump. (more…)

CNS STORY: Muskrat love: A Lenten Friday delight for some Michiganders

Catholic News Service

RIVERVIEW, Mich. (CNS) — There’s an alternative to fish for some Michigan Catholics abstaining from meat on Fridays in Lent — muskrat.
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The late Bishop Kenneth Povish of Lansing wrote in a 1987 column in The Michigan Catholic, Detroit archdiocesan newspaper, that “no (formal) dispensation was ever given to allow Catholics to eat muskrat on Fridays.”

He referred to what he called the “Great Interdiocesan Doctrinal Debate” of 1956, during which he determined that although muskrat is a warm-blooded mammal and technically flesh, the custom had been so long held along Michigan’s rivers and marshes that it was “immemorial custom,” thus allowed under church law.

For the record, Bishop Povish didn’t much care for muskrat as a meal. He wrote that “anyone who could eat muskrat was doing penance worthy of the greatest of the saints.”

Via AmPap

Muskrat, muskrat candlelight
Doin’ the town and doin’ it right
In the evenin’, it’s pretty pleasin’

Lyrics by Willis Allan Ramsey

monky bombOriginally uploaded by marinegirl.

This made me smile.