Would you believe 3 squirrels and a tennis ball?

P.S. I'd like to thank Jennifer for this link.
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Straight Lines

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 233.



Other Birdness:

UPDATE:FOCUS!



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Nutkin Series

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 202 is Series.

I noticed this squirrel lounging under the bird feeder earlier in the week. Then he climbed the flag pole and looked at it. Eventually, he figured out that the only way to get at it was to jump from the flag pole. A day or so later, I heard some of the local ravens on the front porch yelling their heads off. Nutkin was on the feeder, and another of his tribe was in the front lawn watching the proceedings. Now there are at least two of them raiding the feeder.









Other business: Russian Sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia









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Kroger Bunny II and halping zrm

I have one picture left of that little Kroger bunny, and I'm going to play it.



You can blame Randal G. for getting me to look up mambas.

This is for you, zrm!



UPDATE: For Jennifer.


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Herman Cain's Campaign And Such As

First, let's think about all the media professionals who were paid to take the joke that was Herman Cain 2012 seriously. Then remember how they all insisted that we take Rick Perry seriously. Remember all of this whenever you read anything else they write in the future.



In other news:









Cross-posted at Whiskey Fire. Mouse over pics for captions, and click them for larger versions.)
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Orange Cat Friday

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Happy Oktober!

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A Song For Wisconsin

Recall elections are being held tonight in Wisconsin.



A certain zombie and friend from Milwaukee blogs here. And at First Draft, another collection of links for news junkies.

In other news, more details regarding "Super Congress" are emerging. No one should be surprised when it decides that the way to pay for wars, tax cuts, and bailouts for plutocrats is with cuts to Social Security and Medicare. That's been the plan all along.

I'd also like to link this post from Yves Smith, one of the bloggers filling in for Glenn Greenwald at Salon this week. The people who ruined our economy are doing just fine better than ever, thank you. And they think the rest of us are far too comfortable.

(Cross-posted at Whiskey Fire)

UPDATE: The effort to retake the Senate fell one seat short, with two of six Republicans losing. Over at Fred Hiatt's wretched hive of scum and villainy, torture fan and former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen scribbled:

Last fall, when Republicans wrested 20 state legislative chambers and 10 governorships from the Democrats, some on the left refused to accept the results.

Remember after the 2008 elections, when Republicans accepted the results instead of filibustering every single thing?

Me neither!

Instead of accepting the results and pitching in to help repair the country that Bush and Cheney had left a smoking crater, Senator Mitch McConnell said, ""The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

So tell us Marc, you pathetic, torture-loving hypocrite, why do you Republicans hate America?
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Wisconsin news

Via Wonkette, I've learned that all 14 of Wisconsin's Democratic State Senators have skipped town to avoid Scott Walker's attack on state workers. Furthermore, they have awarded Lena C. Taylor one (1) internet:

Wisconsin’s State Senate Democrats are now officially hiding from police in a “secure location outside the Capitol.” So they must no longer be in the state, because when you think Wisconsin, you think danger.

The porpoise of my posting all this? For ZRM, this comment:

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