<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662</id><updated>2012-02-16T06:24:29.235-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hepkitty's Litter Box</title><subtitle type='html'>What is done in the dark will be brought to the light.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>385</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-764558633319482135</id><published>2008-03-18T22:51:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T23:10:03.166-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>no one will read this. haven't written in awhile. no matter-not why i started this blogi want a hybrid car and i want a hybrid president. barack obama knows what our problems are and isn't afraid to address them. hillary clinton has intellectual solutions.i just read obama's speech on race. it is one of the most straight forward and honest dialogs about race in this country i have ever heard. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/764558633319482135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=764558633319482135&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/764558633319482135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/764558633319482135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2008/03/no-one-will-read-this.html' title=''/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-6688259366567296571</id><published>2007-06-27T00:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-06-27T00:12:38.478-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i heart Elizabeth Edwards</title><summary type='text'>Elizabeth Edwards confronts Anne Coulter on Hardballexcerpt-You had a column a couple years ago which made fun of the moment of  [Edwards' son] Charlie Dean's death and suggessted that my husband had a bumper sticker on the back of his car that said, 'ask me about my dead son.' This is not legitimate political dialogue. It debases political dialogue. It draws people away from the process. We </summary><link rel='related' href='http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Elizabeth_Edwards_confronts_Anne_Coulter_on_0626.html' title='i heart Elizabeth Edwards'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/6688259366567296571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=6688259366567296571&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/6688259366567296571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/6688259366567296571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-heart-elizabeth-edwards.html' title='i heart Elizabeth Edwards'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-2530746902159214335</id><published>2007-05-11T13:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-05-11T13:54:03.114-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What did he say?</title><summary type='text'>I came across this today (emphasis mine):It was reported in December 2005, by a DOUG THOMPSON who seems to even-handedly zing politicians on both sides that when discussing renewing the Patriot Act the following discussion occurred (and the discussion has been confirmed by several administration sources):GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/2530746902159214335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=2530746902159214335&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/2530746902159214335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/2530746902159214335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-did-he-say.html' title='What did he say?'/><author><name>Tomkitty</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://theasus.googlepages.com/triple-cross.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-1994911861134926787</id><published>2006-11-09T00:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-09T00:45:08.543-05:00</updated><title type='text'>WOOOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!</title><summary type='text'>nuff said</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/1994911861134926787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=1994911861134926787&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/1994911861134926787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/1994911861134926787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/11/woooooooo-hooooo.html' title='WOOOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!'/><author><name>Tomkitty</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://theasus.googlepages.com/triple-cross.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-3911010975721739819</id><published>2006-10-18T09:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-18T09:23:28.056-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One Party to Rule Them All</title><summary type='text'>I can't believe that I almost voted for the other guy!!! Santorum GETS IT! From the Bucks County Courier Post:"...embattled Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has equated the war in Iraq with J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." According to the paper, Santorum said that the United States has avoided terrorist attacks at home over the past five years because the "Eye of Mordor" has been focused on </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/3911010975721739819/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=3911010975721739819&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/3911010975721739819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/3911010975721739819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/10/one-party-to-rule-them-all.html' title='One Party to Rule Them All'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-949780322444177390</id><published>2006-10-17T07:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-17T09:08:07.662-05:00</updated><title type='text'>woe is we</title><summary type='text'>Teen questioned for online Bush threatsApparently we are a nation of red patriots and blue terrorists. apparently if you're against the war and the president's style of leadership you're a threat. yes, of course it's illegal to make threats on the life of the president, and those threats warrant a degree of investigation, but i really don't think that having the secret service pull a 14-year old </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/949780322444177390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=949780322444177390&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/949780322444177390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/949780322444177390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/10/woe-is-we.html' title='woe is we'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-2334528816212343523</id><published>2006-10-09T20:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-09T21:07:18.333-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Desperate much?</title><summary type='text'>Apparently in a bid to change the flagging fortunes of republicans running for house and senate seats in the face of the foley scandal and their overall suckiness, fox news has began putting D's after the names of republican candidates, and R's after the names of their democratic opponents. I'd laugh at this feeble attempt to trick disenchanted (and apparently stupid) voters if it weren't for the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/2334528816212343523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=2334528816212343523&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/2334528816212343523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/2334528816212343523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/10/desperate-much.html' title='Desperate much?'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-5832184044264901712</id><published>2006-09-17T01:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-17T01:58:01.534-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Argument For Conversion</title><summary type='text'>Here it is kids! The solution to all of our problems, laid out simply with an animated flow chart! How could we not see it before?!?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/5832184044264901712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=5832184044264901712&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/5832184044264901712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/5832184044264901712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/09/argument-for-conversion.html' title='The Argument For Conversion'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-2777979406519628652</id><published>2006-09-15T11:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-15T11:46:31.183-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Desperado</title><summary type='text'>I saw this lame ad the other day. It's a smoke filled back room full of sleazy seeming criminal types playing poker, and the tag is that the men are all corrupt and also connected to the Casey campaign. It was low and stupid, and a desperate move by santorum to make casey seem corrupt. the problem with that is that none of the men alluded to is currently working for casey's campaign,  one of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/2777979406519628652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=2777979406519628652&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/2777979406519628652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/2777979406519628652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/09/desperado.html' title='Desperado'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-8299043188697362561</id><published>2006-09-11T16:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-11T16:58:20.010-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I coulnd't have said it any better.</title><summary type='text'>We stand today on the 5th anniversary of one of the most terrible events most of us will hopefully ever live through or witness. I spent most of it avoiding every wanna-be-poigniant news reporter i could. i had no desire what-so-ever to relive the horror and agony of it with cnn's replaying the entire day as it happened because once was enough for me. Instead i am going to link to this post by </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/8299043188697362561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=8299043188697362561&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/8299043188697362561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/8299043188697362561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-coulndt-have-said-it-any-better.html' title='I coulnd&apos;t have said it any better.'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-821067395042690639</id><published>2006-09-09T12:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-09T12:46:10.279-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We'll be greeted as liberators!!! YAY!!!</title><summary type='text'>excerpt-"FORT EUSTIS -- Months before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists from developing plans for securing a post-war Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday.In fact, said Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid, Rumsfeld said "he would fire the next person" who talked about the need for a post-war plan."I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/821067395042690639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=821067395042690639&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/821067395042690639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/821067395042690639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/09/well-be-greeted-as-liberators-yay.html' title='We&apos;ll be greeted as liberators!!! YAY!!!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-2076805520866386015</id><published>2006-09-01T12:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-01T12:45:05.583-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yet another reason that I love the British</title><summary type='text'>i love the british-they really know how to give the people what they want!From the MSNBC article-LONDON - A British television network plans to broadcast a dramatic, documentary-style film about a fictional assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush, the network’s head said Thursday.The program uses actors and digital manipulation of real footage to show a fictional account of Bush being </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14608725/' title='Yet another reason that I love the British'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/2076805520866386015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=2076805520866386015&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/2076805520866386015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/2076805520866386015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/09/yet-another-reason-that-i-love-british.html' title='Yet another reason that I love the British'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115709126887585773</id><published>2006-09-01T00:58:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-01T01:14:28.876-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. gone</title><summary type='text'>Hey there.  This is Tomkitty, Hepkitty's husband for those not in the know.  I have been running this blog for about a year and a half as the Hepkitty dealt with other matters.  I have decided to move it on over to my own blog, Tomkitty's Scratching Post (keeping with the cat based theme of course) in order to eliminate confusion as to who is posting what where.No worries tho!  Any good stuff I </summary><link rel='related' href='http://tomkittys-scratchingpost.blogspot.com/2006/08/hey-kids.html' title='Mr. gone'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115709126887585773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115709126887585773&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115709126887585773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115709126887585773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/09/mr-gone_115709126887585773.html' title='Mr. gone'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115628338756151464</id><published>2006-08-22T16:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-22T16:49:47.683-05:00</updated><title type='text'>"we'll take care of the counting"</title><summary type='text'>Peter King Watch: King on the 2004 ElectionThanks for that Congressman King.  Really, thanks.Links:http://kingwatch.blogspot.com/http://alterx.blogspot.com/    http://daveforamerica.com/index.php</summary><link rel='related' href='http://kingwatch.blogspot.com/2006/08/king-on-2004-election.html#links' title='&quot;we&apos;ll take care of the counting&quot;'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115628338756151464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115628338756151464&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115628338756151464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115628338756151464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/well-take-care-of-counting.html' title='&quot;we&apos;ll take care of the counting&quot;'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115621389320583042</id><published>2006-08-21T21:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-22T04:46:29.870-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Is this true??</title><summary type='text'>911 Investigative Journalist Harassed And Beaten At His Home By Undercover Cops - Looking Glass NewsI like many others have fallen for the occasional web based urban legend.  but i gotta know, is this true?  The only reason i ask, is that i haven't seen it either the MSM (OoooooOOOooo shocker!), but not in the other well traveled liberal/progessive news sites either.  I found it orginally here at</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=6924' title='Is this true??'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115621389320583042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115621389320583042&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115621389320583042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115621389320583042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/is-this-true.html' title='Is this true??'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115612996042570885</id><published>2006-08-20T22:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-20T22:14:00.413-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What were we doing this for again?</title><summary type='text'>Bombs Aimed at G.I.’s in Iraq Are Increasing - New York Times“Senior administration officials have acknowledged to me that they are considering alternatives other than democracy,” said one military affairs expert who received an Iraq briefing at the White House last month and agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity.“Everybody in the administration is being quite circumspect,” the expert </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/world/middleeast/17military.html?ei=5070&amp;en=3b66bf9fc6c36197&amp;ex=1156478400&amp;emc=eta1&amp;pagewanted=all' title='What were we doing this for again?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115612996042570885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115612996042570885&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115612996042570885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115612996042570885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/what-were-we-doing-this-for-again.html' title='What were we doing this for again?'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115609582207886003</id><published>2006-08-20T12:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-20T16:38:53.703-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus</title><summary type='text'>Scientists flock to test 'free energy' discoveryExcerpt-"Sean McCarthy says that no one was more sceptical than he when Steorn, his small hi-tech firm in Dublin, hit upon a way of generating clean, free and constant energy from the interaction of magnetic fields. 'It wasn't so much a Eureka moment as a get-back-in-there-and-check-your-instruments moment, although in far more colourful language,'"</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115609582207886003/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115609582207886003&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115609582207886003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115609582207886003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/yes-virginia-there-is-santa-claus.html' title='Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115600703009320073</id><published>2006-08-19T12:03:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-19T16:14:09.900-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Has it come to this?</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - FDA approves viruses as food additive - Aug 18, 2006Look, I know the O'Reilly crowd is gonna pounce on me here, and call me 'Pro-Listeria' or something, but does this notion make anyone comfortable?Intentionally adding a virus to lunch meat?  Can't I just do my usual antibiotic shooter after every meal like everyone else?  I typically will just finish off a good meal with some </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/18/edible.virus.ap/index.html' title='Has it come to this?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115600703009320073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115600703009320073&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115600703009320073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115600703009320073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/has-it-come-to-this.html' title='Has it come to this?'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115594088074319177</id><published>2006-08-18T17:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-21T11:29:18.780-05:00</updated><title type='text'>True Words</title><summary type='text'>I saw this link over at Crooks and Liars, and thought I would share.I have found President Dwight D. Eisenhower to be one of the most insightful republican presidents of the 20th century.  See?  Even I can cross party lines from time to time.  ;)Have a great weekend all!tomkittyPS:  Thanks to Raw Story for the link today!  You especially Ron!  Not quite accustomed to that kind of exposure, but </summary><link rel='related' href='http://getintheirface.blogspot.com/2006/08/forged-in-iron_13.html' title='True Words'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115594088074319177/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115594088074319177&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115594088074319177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115594088074319177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/true-words.html' title='True Words'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115585290203631793</id><published>2006-08-17T17:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-19T20:04:18.770-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Slip of the tongue...?</title><summary type='text'>Or maybe a slip of the finger really?Check out these images i just snapped of the CNN story on today's court decision that shot down the bush administration's illeagal wiretapping:  My my my...  Wonder how that typo occured...  Because you know, Fox and Snow really don't sound anything like each other.  (Link for the uninitiated.)I wonder how long it will take them to fix it.  you can see the </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/17/domesticspying.lawsuit/index.html' title='Slip of the tongue...?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115585290203631793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115585290203631793&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115585290203631793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115585290203631793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/slip-of-tongue.html' title='Slip of the tongue...?'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115549279493109297</id><published>2006-08-13T12:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-18T18:01:01.063-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Hand of Kissinger</title><summary type='text'>Saw this link to a new story from Seymour Hersh over at the New Yorker Magazine on Rawstory this morning, and just thought I would jot down a few notes.Soooo....  This war wasn't in response to the kidnappings on July 12th, huh?  Lets see a quote from the article:According to a Middle East expert with knowledge of the current thinking of both the Israeli and the U.S. governments, Israel had </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060821fa_fact/0,,2-10-2075_1981865,00.html' title='The Hand of Kissinger'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115549279493109297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115549279493109297&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115549279493109297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115549279493109297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/hand-of-kissinger.html' title='The Hand of Kissinger'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115513515839723393</id><published>2006-08-09T09:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T10:03:20.346-05:00</updated><title type='text'>War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution</title><summary type='text'>As usual the bush administration's answer to laws they don't agree with-rewrite them.From the article-"The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments.Officials say </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2006%2F08%2F08%2FAR2006080801276_pf.html' title='War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115513515839723393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115513515839723393&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115513515839723393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115513515839723393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/war-crimes-act-changes-would-reduce.html' title='War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115508392774423791</id><published>2006-08-08T19:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-08T19:38:47.776-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Things I Saw On the Way Home From Work</title><summary type='text'>   </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115508392774423791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115508392774423791&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115508392774423791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115508392774423791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/things-i-saw-on-way-home-from-work.html' title='Things I Saw On the Way Home From Work'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115500535359336247</id><published>2006-08-07T21:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-21T11:29:41.866-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CNN.com - Reuters says Mideast photographer doctored shots - Aug 7, 2006</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Reuters says Mideast photographer doctored shots - Aug 7, 2006I'm going to break from the usual political ranting that goes on in this litter box, and move over to something that is more inline with my professional life:  Photo Editing.The owners of this blog are really good at editing images, and have been doing it for years.  We can do it in our sleep at this point, I even had </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115500535359336247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115500535359336247&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115500535359336247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115500535359336247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/cnncom-reuters-says-mideast.html' title='CNN.com - Reuters says Mideast photographer doctored shots - Aug 7, 2006'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115490040227917965</id><published>2006-08-06T16:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-06T16:53:27.726-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bonfire Night</title><summary type='text'>V for VendettaThis is a really really good flick, and I insist that anyone reading this run out and buy, rent or borrow it right now.  This movie is well thought out, with fantasitic if sometimes disturbing imagery, and a plot that is a perfect allegory for the times we live in.  This movie is based on an original graphic novel created by Alan Moore, and published by DC/Vertigo, and is just </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115490040227917965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115490040227917965&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115490040227917965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115490040227917965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/bonfire-night.html' title='Bonfire Night'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115483954821787493</id><published>2006-08-05T23:28:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T23:45:48.216-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Constitution in Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception,A must read!!! Four Stars! Just keep your fingers crossed and your voting arm strong that this November will the the start of some change. The return of justice.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115483954821787493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115483954821787493&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115483954821787493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115483954821787493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/08/constitution-in-crisis-dow_115483954821787493.html' title=''/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115340132988027631</id><published>2006-07-20T08:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-07-20T08:15:29.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Support Our Troops-Please End This</title><summary type='text'>Time-"The YouTube War"Just read it. Then ask yourself why there's no swelling anti-war movement in this country yet. Excuse me-I need to go make a placard.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115340132988027631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115340132988027631&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115340132988027631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115340132988027631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/07/support-our-troops-please-end-this.html' title='Support Our Troops-Please End This'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115230133206300711</id><published>2006-07-07T14:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-07-07T14:45:22.230-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Show me the body</title><summary type='text'>Enron's Lay to be cremated, buried in Aspen - Jul. 7, 2006  Come on now.  I don't think that I am being unreasonable.  The media splashed images of Zarqawi and the Hussein brothers all over the news, so get with the pictures already.Yes, my tin foil hat is a bit worn these days, comfortable really, but am I out of line here?Look at it this way, King George can't pardon him, his legacy isn't </summary><link rel='related' href='http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/07/news/newsmakers/enron_lay.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes' title='Show me the body'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115230133206300711/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115230133206300711&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115230133206300711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115230133206300711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/07/show-me-body.html' title='Show me the body'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115228340801851037</id><published>2006-07-07T09:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-07-07T09:43:28.053-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Battle For Hearts &amp; Minds Rages On!</title><summary type='text'>Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts"We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," the group quoted a Defense Department investigator as saying in a report to be posted today on its Web site, www.splcenter.org. "That's a problem."A Defense Department spokeswoman said officials there could not comment on the report because they had not yet seen it.The center called on Defense </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115228340801851037/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115228340801851037&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115228340801851037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115228340801851037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/07/battle-for-hearts-minds-rages-on.html' title='The Battle For Hearts &amp; Minds Rages On!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-115212487630026076</id><published>2006-07-05T13:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-07-05T13:41:16.353-05:00</updated><title type='text'>New Expressions</title><summary type='text'>Hey all!  Its been a while, although I can assure you that I haven't run short on the rightious indignation.  Looking for a new outlet, the Hepkitty and I have started to make some T-Shirt designs.  (Did we forget to mention that we were artists?)Any way, check out the first one by clicking on the picture.  If you like it, buy it and help feed a couple of starving artisits.Hope everyone had a </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.cafepress.com/hepkitty' title='New Expressions'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/115212487630026076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=115212487630026076&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115212487630026076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/115212487630026076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-expressions.html' title='New Expressions'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-114935912331460264</id><published>2006-06-03T13:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-06-03T13:27:55.730-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Behold the party of hate</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Bush urges gay marriage ban enshrined in Constitution - Jun 3, 2006That is what it boils down to with these guys, politics based on bigotry.  I often wonder how this works, but i guess prejudice is one of the more base parts of the human psyche, one that is easy enough to play on.  Basically the small-minded using the small-minded for their own ends i suppose.I had to ask one of my </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/03/bush.radio.ap/index.html' title='Behold the party of hate'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/114935912331460264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=114935912331460264&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114935912331460264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114935912331460264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/06/behold-party-of-hate.html' title='Behold the party of hate'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-114894155134344614</id><published>2006-05-29T17:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-05-29T17:26:49.943-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Faux News</title><summary type='text'> Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'"Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies' products."This has been going on for quite some </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/114894155134344614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=114894155134344614&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114894155134344614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114894155134344614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/05/faux-news.html' title='Faux News'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-114891205884189433</id><published>2006-05-29T08:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-05-29T09:20:08.356-05:00</updated><title type='text'>An Open Letter To The Democrats</title><summary type='text'>"Is there an anti-Hillary movement in the Democratic Party?"Dear Washington Democrats:Ok, here's your problem, you have no idea who you are anymore, and neither does anyone else. You spend all your time and strategy and money giving non committal "policy" speeches, and trying to appeal to disillusioned Republicans by telling everyone you're just like them. You seem to think this will win you </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/114891205884189433/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=114891205884189433&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114891205884189433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114891205884189433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/05/open-letter-to-democrats.html' title='An Open Letter To The Democrats'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-114634270376021125</id><published>2006-04-29T15:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-04-29T15:31:43.863-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Corporation</title><summary type='text'>The Film you must see.This film says it all.  Go out and buy it, watch it, and pass it around to your friends.  This will show you how the world really works, and it should be spread around as much as possible.This film covers all the ills that the corporate culture hath wrought on this world, from sweat shop labor, polution, privatization, collusion with fascists regimes, exploitation of just </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.thecorporation.com/' title='The Corporation'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/114634270376021125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=114634270376021125&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114634270376021125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114634270376021125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/04/corporation.html' title='The Corporation'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-114572255176344232</id><published>2006-04-22T11:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-04-22T11:15:51.876-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You got to give it to george, he makes folks feel welcome</title><summary type='text'>Hu heckler charged - Politics - MSNBC.comThis past week, george bush entertained the financier of his administration's follies, Chinese President Hu Jintao.  At one point, a Dr. Wang Wenyi, a practitioner of what seems to be a rather pieceful religion, Falun Gong, positioned herself with reportrs outside the white house and 'heckled' (as they are saying) the chinese president.  I don't know that </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12426832/' title='You got to give it to george, he makes folks feel welcome'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/114572255176344232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=114572255176344232&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114572255176344232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114572255176344232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/04/you-got-to-give-it-to-george-he-makes.html' title='You got to give it to george, he makes folks feel welcome'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-114289426830369354</id><published>2006-03-20T17:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T17:37:48.356-05:00</updated><title type='text'>TheStar.com - How to spot a baby conservative</title><summary type='text'>Search your feelings.  You KNOW this to be true!Ain't been around for a piece, but this was enough to drag me out of my work slump.This makes sooooooooooooooo much sense i am shaken to the core.  Insecure whiney little cry-babies grow up to be neo-cons.  You couldn't smack the smile off my face.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&amp;call_pageid=971358637177&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1142722231554' title='TheStar.com - How to spot a baby conservative'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/114289426830369354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=114289426830369354&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114289426830369354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114289426830369354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/03/thestarcom-how-to-spot-baby.html' title='TheStar.com - How to spot a baby conservative'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-114099370462898941</id><published>2006-02-26T15:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-26T17:41:44.706-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The ports thingy...  How stupid can you get?</title><summary type='text'>If your Mr. bush, than the answer would be 'a lot more than you thought possible'.I have been quite busy lately, but always listening to the news.  From 2005 I saw 2 really spectacular failures on the part of the bush administration; His Social Security "reform", and the nomination of Harreit Myers for the Supreme Court.  Shortly into 2006 I get an early Chritmas present... Excuse me. Holiday </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/114099370462898941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=114099370462898941&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114099370462898941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114099370462898941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/02/ports-thingy-how-stupid-can-you-get.html' title='The ports thingy...  How stupid can you get?'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-114048864580009308</id><published>2006-02-20T21:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-20T21:24:05.856-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Asshole :: Film Strip International</title><summary type='text'>Asshole :: Film Strip InternationalThis is what you get when you type 'Asshole' in to Google, and hit the 'I'm feeling lucky'.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://filmstripinternational.com/' title='Asshole :: Film Strip International'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/114048864580009308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=114048864580009308&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114048864580009308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/114048864580009308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/02/asshole-film-strip-international.html' title='Asshole :: Film Strip International'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113969110150733659</id><published>2006-02-11T15:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-11T15:52:17.183-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Photograph Shows Lobbyist at Bush Meeting With Legislators - New York Times</title><summary type='text'>Let the games begin</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/politics/12lobby.html?ei=5088&amp;en=b33fdc890fba9067&amp;ex=1297400400&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;adxnnlx=1139691106-W' title='Photograph Shows Lobbyist at Bush Meeting With Legislators - New York Times'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113969110150733659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113969110150733659&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113969110150733659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113969110150733659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/02/photograph-shows-lobbyist-at-bush.html' title='Photograph Shows Lobbyist at Bush Meeting With Legislators - New York Times'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113944822937235789</id><published>2006-02-08T20:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-15T14:11:58.603-05:00</updated><title type='text'>DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot - Yahoo! News</title><summary type='text'>DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot - Yahoo! NewsAs quoted in the text:Allowing Tom DeLay to sit on a committee in charge of giving out money is like putting Michael Brown back in charge of FEMALets see how many of these i can do.  you folks watching at home should feel free to participate by using the comments link below.Lets begin.  All jokes begin with the following line:Allowing Tom DeLay</summary><link rel='related' href='http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060208/ap_on_go_co/delay_appropriations_1' title='DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot - Yahoo! News'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113944822937235789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113944822937235789&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113944822937235789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113944822937235789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/02/delay-lands-coveted-appropriations.html' title='DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot - Yahoo! News'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113935180548830621</id><published>2006-02-07T17:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T17:36:45.540-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Think Progress » VIDEO: Rev. Lowery’s Standing Ovation</title><summary type='text'>Think Progress » VIDEO: Rev. Lowery’s Standing OvationThanks to Rawstory for pointing this one out.What you don't see in the video clip is President George W. Bush himself sitting in the audience during the standing ovation.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/07/lowery-standing-ovation/' title='Think Progress » VIDEO: Rev. Lowery’s Standing Ovation'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113935180548830621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113935180548830621&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113935180548830621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113935180548830621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/02/think-progress-video-rev-lowerys.html' title='Think Progress » VIDEO: Rev. Lowery’s Standing Ovation'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113927056409194013</id><published>2006-02-06T19:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T19:04:57.476-05:00</updated><title type='text'>'Reform' May Still Depend On Abramoff</title><summary type='text'>'Reform' May Still Depend On AbramoffHere is a quote that made me spit my fine irish stout out my nose:If Congress expands the so-called cooling-off period for ex-staffers, Dyer predicted, "a lot of talented people will be forced off the Hill."After i collected myself, and cleaned off my monitor, i said to myself 'Who Fucking Cares!'Lobbyists = BadPACs = BadGolf trips to Scotland to BRIBE elected</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/05/AR2006020500862.html' title='&apos;Reform&apos; May Still Depend On Abramoff'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113927056409194013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113927056409194013&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113927056409194013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113927056409194013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/02/reform-may-still-depend-on-abramoff.html' title='&apos;Reform&apos; May Still Depend On Abramoff'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113832765974846998</id><published>2006-01-26T20:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-26T21:07:39.760-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Smith Goes To Wahington</title><summary type='text'>If you are not watching this movie, like I am right now, you really should consider picking it up and watch it this weekend.Tom Delay should too.  Or at least maybe he should have when he was young.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/' title='Mr. Smith Goes To Wahington'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113832765974846998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113832765974846998&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113832765974846998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113832765974846998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/01/mr-smith-goes-to-wahington.html' title='Mr. Smith Goes To Wahington'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113824542074684287</id><published>2006-01-25T22:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T22:45:16.570-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CNN.com - Lobbyist: 'Do not overreact' on reform - Jan 25, 2006</title><summary type='text'>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/25/congress.lobbying.ap/index.htmlNoooooo....  Now is the perfect time to overreact.Here are the new rules for a brave new hep-world:No More Fucking Money for any elected officials from Lobbyists, Corporations, PACs, or even their own goddamn parties either on a state or federal level.  No more trips, no more dinners, no more spas, no more golf outings.  </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/25/congress.lobbying.ap/index.html' title='CNN.com - Lobbyist: &apos;Do not overreact&apos; on reform - Jan 25, 2006'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113824542074684287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113824542074684287&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113824542074684287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113824542074684287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/01/cnncom-lobbyist-do-not-overreact-on.html' title='CNN.com - Lobbyist: &apos;Do not overreact&apos; on reform - Jan 25, 2006'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113820884950730826</id><published>2006-01-25T12:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T16:17:56.520-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Turn Coat</title><summary type='text'>Ben Nelson, U.S. Senator from Nebraska 109th CongressThis fella, Mr. Ben Nelson from Nebraska (D), is going to for Alito. You heard it here first!  (or C-SPAN, whatever)Sick 'em!*corrected</summary><link rel='related' href='http://bennelson.senate.gov/index.cfm' title='Turn Coat'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113820884950730826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113820884950730826&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113820884950730826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113820884950730826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/01/turn-coat.html' title='Turn Coat'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113819857872945094</id><published>2006-01-25T08:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T10:47:21.596-05:00</updated><title type='text'>End of days</title><summary type='text'>Well folks, as CNN is reporting, this is the face of the soon to be 110th supreme court justice.What now?  Well, we are going to have to get really accustomed to some of the things that we have come to hate in the past 5 years.  None of these things are new, we have just lost our chance to fight them for what might potentialy be a looooong time.1.  The office of the president will no longer be </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113819857872945094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113819857872945094&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113819857872945094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113819857872945094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/01/end-of-days.html' title='End of days'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113814330493062847</id><published>2006-01-24T17:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T17:55:05.016-05:00</updated><title type='text'>White House Got Early Warning on Katrina</title><summary type='text'>White House Got Early Warning on KatrinaWell... I'm sure that the president was doing something very important that kept him from acting on this...  surly he was engaged in getting additional armor for the troops, or maybe repairing our relations with the world community...no?OOOOHHHHHHHH!!!  Thats Right!HE WAS ON FUCKING VACATION!Just like the time he got the warning about Bin Laden Determined </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012301711.html' title='White House Got Early Warning on Katrina'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113814330493062847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113814330493062847&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113814330493062847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113814330493062847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/01/white-house-got-early-warning-on.html' title='White House Got Early Warning on Katrina'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113796237464920474</id><published>2006-01-22T15:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T22:11:21.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CNN.com - Rove: Security will be focus of 2006 campaigns - Jan 20, 2006</title><summary type='text'>Is that so Karl?Alrighty bub,  seeing as you are feeling comfortable enough to climb out from under the rock you have been hiding under while facing possible indictment (Where is Fitzy these days anyway?)  i will let you set the 06 election agenda.  Fine then.  Lets talk about terrorism.Where is Osama Bin Laden?buh, buh, buh-  Shut it.  just shut it. (links thanks to Crooks and Liars)WHERE IS </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/20/republicans.rove.ap/index.html' title='CNN.com - Rove: Security will be focus of 2006 campaigns - Jan 20, 2006'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113796237464920474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113796237464920474&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113796237464920474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113796237464920474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/01/cnncom-rove-security-will-be-focus-of.html' title='CNN.com - Rove: Security will be focus of 2006 campaigns - Jan 20, 2006'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113743720881736707</id><published>2006-01-16T17:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-16T17:56:24.883-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A few thoughts on RICO</title><summary type='text'>You can take Wikipedia for what it is, I like it, but tend to be wary cause you don’t know what nutcases may make strange and inaccurate entries, but I have found it to a be a pretty good resource for information, or at least a jumping off point for further research.Sitting here as I tend to on a weekend, playing some X-Box and watching the Family Guy on TiVo, I decided to take a quick jaunt </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113743720881736707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113743720881736707&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113743720881736707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113743720881736707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2006/01/few-thoughts-on-rico.html' title='A few thoughts on RICO'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113606354231778987</id><published>2005-12-31T16:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-01T16:41:45.363-05:00</updated><title type='text'>2005 in a nutshell!</title><summary type='text'>I am pleased to present: Tomkitty’s year in reviewWhy not, right?  I saw an older boy do a year in review piece and thought it was alright.I’m going to try to keep everything in order, but some events crossed months, so bare with me.  This is more or less a rundown of Neo-con fuck-ups for the year aught 5, and lord knows there were many, so forgive me if I miss a few, or if something is out of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113606354231778987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113606354231778987&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113606354231778987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113606354231778987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/2005-in-nutshell.html' title='2005 in a nutshell!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113589516709866362</id><published>2005-12-29T17:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-29T17:26:07.176-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ouch!</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Poll: First lady embraced, president not - Dec 29, 2005Poor Georgie...  He has had to put up with so much this past year.  We got the year rolling with the tsunami recovery, where his daddy and Bill Clinton get praise for helping get donors on board.  Heck, he is so often unfavorably compared to both those men, it must be awful to sit in the shadow of others like that.  And now he has</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/29/bush.popularity/index.html' title='Ouch!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113589516709866362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113589516709866362&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113589516709866362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113589516709866362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/ouch.html' title='Ouch!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113588970091336685</id><published>2005-12-29T15:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-29T15:55:00.926-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Google Ads</title><summary type='text'>You know, i put these ads on here as a sort of lark.  I actually do webmaster work for a living, and thought i would try them out and see if i might use them on another site of mine for a client. Not too bad realy, not that they are going to get me out of my student loans anytime soon, perhaps enough for a case of beer sometime in 2009. My problem comes when i get here and see adds asking me to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113588970091336685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113588970091336685&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113588970091336685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113588970091336685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/google-ads.html' title='Google Ads'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113588736256344652</id><published>2005-12-29T15:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-29T15:16:02.620-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jack Abramoff</title><summary type='text'>Jack AbramoffBet you all didn't know that Jack Abramoff, who is at the center of the worst case of corruption and power-brokering in the history of DC actually wrote and produced movies for a time?  I saw the mention in this recent WaPo story and had to look it up.tomkitty</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009106/' title='Jack Abramoff'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113588736256344652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113588736256344652&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113588736256344652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113588736256344652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/jack-abramoff.html' title='Jack Abramoff'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113544739999236811</id><published>2005-12-24T13:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-24T13:04:48.540-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Federal Pay Raises</title><summary type='text'>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/23/AR2005122301459.htmlNot that I didn’t intend to write a nice piece of holiday fluff this weekend, or more likely another mocking post about the ‘War on Christmas’, but I saw this story on WaPo this morning and felt compelled to comment.  Sometime back there was a vote on raising the minimum wage held in the senate.  I had commented </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113544739999236811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113544739999236811&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113544739999236811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113544739999236811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/federal-pay-raises.html' title='Federal Pay Raises'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113435317938579954</id><published>2005-12-11T21:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T21:28:12.483-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Katrina, Revisited</title><summary type='text'>There are several stories that have appeared in the various news sites these past few days that are quite telling, taken all in all, of the state of America with respect to the past 5 years of the Bush Administration’s management.Drowned city cuts its poor adrift More bad news at a bad time - Subprime lenders are getting nasty FEMA reimbursements mainly benefit higher income groupsFinally, there </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113435317938579954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113435317938579954&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113435317938579954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113435317938579954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/katrina-revisited.html' title='Katrina, Revisited'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113434238528722600</id><published>2005-12-11T18:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T18:06:25.300-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Something from way back</title><summary type='text'>hepitty made this one.  i just found it again.tomkitty</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113434238528722600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113434238528722600&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113434238528722600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113434238528722600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/something-from-way-back.html' title='Something from way back'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113433664068036737</id><published>2005-12-11T16:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T16:30:40.690-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Love you Gary!</title><summary type='text'>http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20051211tomkitty</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113433664068036737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113433664068036737&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113433664068036737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113433664068036737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/love-you-gary.html' title='Love you Gary!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113428652962571164</id><published>2005-12-11T02:31:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T02:35:29.626-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I have a problem with this</title><summary type='text'>http://www.10news.com/news/5504608/detail.htmlDoes anyone else?Tell this guy.tomkitty</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113428652962571164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113428652962571164&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113428652962571164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113428652962571164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/i-have-problem-with-this_11.html' title='I have a problem with this'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113371339372441061</id><published>2005-12-04T11:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-04-22T11:45:59.900-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Good stuff out of Philly</title><summary type='text'>Hey there.  Here are a couple of editorials by Chris Saluto, a 2 part series that ended in todays issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer.Lessons learned from conservatives - Sun, Nov. 27, 2005andConservatives could learn a thing or 10 - Sun, Dec. 04, 2005Pretty fair and balanced i'd say.My favortite line from the second link is: 10. If you're born on third, you did not hit a triple.Enjoy the rest of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113371339372441061/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113371339372441061&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113371339372441061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113371339372441061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/good-stuff-out-of-philly.html' title='Good stuff out of Philly'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113364092606161710</id><published>2005-12-03T14:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-03T17:13:18.536-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That Damn Holiday</title><summary type='text'>Last year, when this war on Christmas thing first came round, I was left a little in the dark.  You see as a member of the loony left, the Kool-Aid secular progressive ACLU America-hater bastard that I tend to be, I guess I was just too busy burning the flag and passing out coupons for free abortions to notice that the left-wing secularists had finally launched an attack on Christmas.  You see </summary><link rel='related' href='http://mediamatters.org/items/200512010018' title='That Damn Holiday'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113364092606161710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113364092606161710&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113364092606161710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113364092606161710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/12/that-damn-holiday.html' title='That Damn Holiday'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-113233793697586969</id><published>2005-11-19T12:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-19T15:12:24.520-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Personal Issues</title><summary type='text'>Hello there, all five of you.I've been away for a piece, but have returned with a fire in the belly.  I can't quit explain it, but i had a major revelation, and decided to act on an idea i had a while ago.   I have gone and re-registered myself as an independant.This coming as i have been watching our democratic friends in congress show signs of growing a spine, but even so, i find myself unable </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/113233793697586969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=113233793697586969&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113233793697586969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/113233793697586969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/11/personal-issues.html' title='Personal Issues'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112879099704468645</id><published>2005-10-08T11:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-10-08T12:03:17.096-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Down the well</title><summary type='text'>Thanks to the good folks over at Crooks and Liars for posting this video from the vote on refining capacity from the other day.  As you can see there is some mention of this in the MSM (1, 2, 3)Now, as i have brought up before with such story like the Gannon\Guckert thing, if you were to invert party affiliation in this, and many other cases, you would end up with one of the biggest scandels you </summary><link rel='related' href='http://movies.crooksandliars.com/shame.mov' title='Down the well'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112879099704468645/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112879099704468645&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112879099704468645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112879099704468645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/10/down-well.html' title='Down the well'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112827279933748218</id><published>2005-10-02T11:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-10-02T16:53:53.083-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting times</title><summary type='text'>It has been some time since I have sat down and blogged.  What can I say?  I think I have been on overload for the past few weeks.  Yes, my work is always an issue, and is quite draining, but my real problem is what exactly do I comment on?Bill Frist being investigated for insider trading?Tom Delay being indicted and stepping down as majority leader?Cronyism in the federal government?Ongoing </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112827279933748218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112827279933748218&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112827279933748218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112827279933748218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/10/interesting-times.html' title='Interesting times'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112707608593454128</id><published>2005-09-18T15:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-09-18T15:41:25.980-05:00</updated><title type='text'>you must be kidding me</title><summary type='text'>KRT Wire | 09/18/2005 | New twist on Iraq aid: U.S. seeks donationsSooooo....  The billions of dollars of taxpayer money are not enough to rebuild Iraq, huh?Here is a helpful tip for you folks in the administration:Start spending our money a bit more wisely in the future.  Stop writing blank checks to Haliburton, stop with the tax cuts for the rich, and sit and think about the consequences </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/12679449.htm' title='you must be kidding me'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112707608593454128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112707608593454128&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112707608593454128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112707608593454128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/09/you-must-be-kidding-me.html' title='you must be kidding me'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112586529248447005</id><published>2005-09-04T15:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-09-04T20:38:16.646-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Gee, I'd like to help you, but... That really wouldn't do either of us any good.</title><summary type='text'>Good Sunday folks.  I hope that you are all well and having a fine holiday weekend, and that you all remember to stop wearing white after Monday, lest the fashion police ticket you.  I was off to a great start this morning, until i turned on the TV for my usual sunday morning news.  At which point...  well, my mood changed dramatically.Here is a highlight from this morning's conversation between </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112586529248447005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112586529248447005&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112586529248447005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112586529248447005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/09/gee-id-like-to-help-you-but-that.html' title='Gee, I&apos;d like to help you, but... That really wouldn&apos;t do either of us any good.'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112581088648879436</id><published>2005-09-04T00:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-09-04T00:17:30.020-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CNN.com - Chief Justice Rehnquist has died - Sep 4, 2005</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Chief Justice Rehnquist has died - Sep 4, 2005God bless him. God save us from the neo-cons.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112581088648879436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112581088648879436&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112581088648879436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112581088648879436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/09/cnncom-chief-justice-rehnquist-has.html' title='CNN.com - Chief Justice Rehnquist has died - Sep 4, 2005'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112576461805178172</id><published>2005-09-03T10:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-09-03T13:23:34.513-05:00</updated><title type='text'>SOS!</title><summary type='text'>Here is the link to the Red Cross donation page.Go there now and give them whatever you can to help the victims of Katrina. We, the average citizen, need to step up and help because of the poor planning of the federal goverment.As a special note, i would like to thank members of the international community who have come to aide the citizens of America who have been so devastated by this horrible </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112576461805178172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112576461805178172&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112576461805178172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112576461805178172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/09/sos.html' title='SOS!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112517327453934194</id><published>2005-08-27T14:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-08-27T15:07:54.606-05:00</updated><title type='text'>An open letter to Verizon</title><summary type='text'>Hey there folks.  i'm gonna take a break from the politics for this post to have a word with the 'good' folks over at Verizon about their DSL high speed internet connection.  You see, in my real world life, i'm much less a politico, and more of your IT administrator kind of guy.The question i have come to dread coming from people i have just met is usually started with a varient of 'So, i hear </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112517327453934194/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112517327453934194&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112517327453934194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112517327453934194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/08/open-letter-to-verizon.html' title='An open letter to Verizon'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112465317341436678</id><published>2005-08-21T14:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-08-21T16:14:10.726-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting Times</title><summary type='text'>You know, I’ve been traveling a lot lately, and haven't commented on a lot of what has been happening in terms of developments concerning bush and his buddies.  It sure has been a tough time for our fearless leader.  His best friend and flunky, Karl ‘turd-blossom’ Rove, has been in the news a lot lately, it seems he may have done something he swore he didn't do, engaging in the very treasonous </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112465317341436678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112465317341436678&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112465317341436678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112465317341436678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/08/interesting-times.html' title='Interesting Times'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112403555075447795</id><published>2005-08-14T11:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-08-14T17:04:31.516-05:00</updated><title type='text'>you don't say...</title><summary type='text'>U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraqlets look at some select out-takes of this article.The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.really?But the realities of daily life are a constant reminder of how the initial </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112403555075447795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112403555075447795&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112403555075447795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112403555075447795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/08/you-dont-say.html' title='you don&apos;t say...'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-112250375514568459</id><published>2005-07-27T17:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T20:06:17.830-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CNN.com - Death row inmate's retardation trial continues - Jul 27, 2005</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Death row inmate's retardation trial continues - Jul 27, 2005I have a problem.  Now, if i were a braver man, I would go on the 'Liberal Confessional' on Air America Radio's Morning Sedition, and confess breaking with liberal tenants, but i'll just settle for this in the mean time.I thought casually after reading the headline, that this was going to be the sort of thing that makes me </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/112250375514568459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=112250375514568459&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112250375514568459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/112250375514568459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/07/cnncom-death-row-inmates-retardation.html' title='CNN.com - Death row inmate&apos;s retardation trial continues - Jul 27, 2005'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111931529049872530</id><published>2005-06-20T19:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-20T19:54:50.563-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | WMD claims were 'totally implausible'</title><summary type='text'>Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | WMD claims were 'totally implausible'</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111931529049872530/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111931529049872530&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111931529049872530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111931529049872530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/06/guardian-unlimited-politics-special.html' title='Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | WMD claims were &apos;totally implausible&apos;'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111911787330725953</id><published>2005-06-18T13:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-19T13:38:34.290-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That's nice... Kinda...</title><summary type='text'>The Wabash Plain Dealer OnlineThe AP has released a story on the Downing Street memos.  This link was pulled at random from a paper in Wabash Indiana, but there are about a hundred more that are carrying the story.This is great on the surface, this story sorely needs attention if anything will come of it, but i find myself slightly disappointed by the lack of one particular phrase:"Bush wanted to</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111911787330725953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111911787330725953&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111911787330725953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111911787330725953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/06/thats-nice-kinda.html' title='That&apos;s nice... Kinda...'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111895797642645120</id><published>2005-06-16T16:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T17:15:05.356-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And here we are again...</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Democratic forum focuses on 'Downing Street memo' - June 16, 2005Back on the front page of CNN, but for how long?  As i have noted in previous posts, stories surrounding this memo have a habit of disapearing off the CNN.com site to be relegated to the archives, or left unlisted.I knew the forum was coming, but thought that it would be one more thing i read about on the blogs and heard </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111895797642645120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111895797642645120&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111895797642645120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111895797642645120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/06/and-here-we-are-again.html' title='And here we are again...'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111860436733806147</id><published>2005-06-12T14:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-12T14:26:07.400-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Another one, eh?  bring em on!</title><summary type='text'>Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action - Sunday Times - Times OnlineYou know there have to be memos like this one and the Downing Street memo buried somewhere in the pentagon and the white house.My birthday is coming up soon, so keep that in mind if one of you disgruntled staffers out there want to get me something special.  ;)tomkitty</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111860436733806147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111860436733806147&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111860436733806147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111860436733806147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/06/another-one-eh-bring-em-on.html' title='Another one, eh?  bring em on!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111799552619266283</id><published>2005-06-05T13:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-05T13:18:46.236-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Not unusual really</title><summary type='text'>Hannity, Morris, Scarborough, Matthews hyped in ... [Media Matters for America]They did the same thing with WMDs.  i remember it seemed everyday that Fox was telling us that weapons had been found almost every afternoon, but dropped all mention of those stories when it was proven that they had found nothing of the sort.tomkitty </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111799552619266283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111799552619266283&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111799552619266283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111799552619266283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/06/not-unusual-really.html' title='Not unusual really'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111791130703597283</id><published>2005-06-04T13:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-04T13:55:07.086-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thats one smart search engine!</title><summary type='text'>guess what you get if you search the word 'failure' on Google as the number one result?That has been cracking me up all morning.Oh yeah, i'm back from vacation now, so i'll be getting back my bitching and moaning soon enough, and maybe a few serene pics from my travels thrown in to boot.tomkitty</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111791130703597283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111791130703597283&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111791130703597283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111791130703597283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/06/thats-one-smart-search-engine.html' title='Thats one smart search engine!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111668671056191673</id><published>2005-05-21T09:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-21T09:45:10.616-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Getting to the bottom of things</title><summary type='text'>The Raw Story | House Dems to hold forum on media bias Tuesday with Franken, Brock, othersBout frikkin' time.  I have no idea what this will accomplish, as doubtlessly the average American citizen will see no coverage of this event, but it's nice to know someone is looking into it none the less.Conyers is rapidly becoming my favorite rep.I'm off to vacation now.  I will post once or twice i </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111668671056191673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111668671056191673&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111668671056191673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111668671056191673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/getting-to-bottom-of-things.html' title='Getting to the bottom of things'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111635683750515681</id><published>2005-05-17T13:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T17:20:57.413-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well now</title><summary type='text'>Regarding my post from this morning, i noticed that they have already pulled the story from the front page.  They are still hosting the page, but it is no longer listed anywhere...This happened with the first story they did about the memo (Conyer's letter to the White House), but not to the 'McCain: I don't agree with British war memo' story...Now why would they post a story for a few hours, then</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111635683750515681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111635683750515681&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111635683750515681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111635683750515681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/well-now.html' title='Well now'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111633294374130110</id><published>2005-05-17T07:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T07:29:03.813-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Front Page.  How bout that?</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - White House challenges UK Iraq memo  - May 16, 2005Now we are getting somewhere.  I don't know where exactly, but the fact that CNN has pulled its head out of the sand is a plus.tomkitty</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111633294374130110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111633294374130110&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111633294374130110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111633294374130110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/front-page-how-bout-that.html' title='Front Page.  How bout that?'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111589621673843727</id><published>2005-05-12T06:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T20:55:58.053-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CNN.com - Bush asked to explain UK war memo - May 12, 2005</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Bush asked to explain UK war memo - May 12, 2005Hey what do you know?  CNN actually is covering an important story.  Did bush LIE to the American people?  Will he admit to it?  Who will he blame? I am all a twitter this morning.  I was beginning to think that this memo was going the way of Gannon.  Make sure that everyone you know hears about this memo.tomkitty</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111589621673843727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111589621673843727&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111589621673843727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111589621673843727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/cnncom-bush-asked-to-explain-uk-war.html' title='CNN.com - Bush asked to explain UK war memo - May 12, 2005'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111576561695869958</id><published>2005-05-10T17:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-10T17:57:23.450-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Appeals Court Dismisses Cheney Suit</title><summary type='text'>Wha?I'm getting the feeling i'm missing something here...  A American Vice President....  Has meetings with folks from the energy industry...  Including an indicted CEO who left his employees without their retirement funds... With the purpose of creating an 'energy (+environmental) policy...  a matter that has Nothing To Do With National Security....  And the citzens of Amerca don't have a right </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111576561695869958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111576561695869958&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111576561695869958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111576561695869958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/appeals-court-dismisses-cheney-suit.html' title='Appeals Court Dismisses Cheney Suit'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111573309368143163</id><published>2005-05-10T08:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T20:49:16.863-05:00</updated><title type='text'>you dont say</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Jesus Christ in legal battle to get license - May 10, 2005:"Christ is not speaking to the press at this time,' Pishevar said."When was the last time you heard something like that?tomkitty</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111573309368143163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111573309368143163&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111573309368143163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111573309368143163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/you-dont-say.html' title='you dont say'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111568368745771724</id><published>2005-05-09T19:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T20:53:54.926-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I swear to god...</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Conservative group seeks probe of Sen. Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser - May 9, 2005If one more cent of taxpayer dollars are spent on this stupid vendetta, i will lose my frikkin mind.  you neo-cons already wasted 70 milllion dollars on this nonsense, and if i have to hear any more....*degenerates into yosemite sam...Here.  I will compromise.  you can investigate Hillary AFTER you </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111568368745771724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111568368745771724&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111568368745771724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111568368745771724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/i-swear-to-god.html' title='I swear to god...'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111557910006129214</id><published>2005-05-08T11:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-08T15:30:45.626-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Blogs and News</title><summary type='text'>There has been a lot of talk about bloggers versus reporters, and the definition of news in these oh so turbulent times.  I don't claim to report any sort of news here, this is really an extended rant, and editorial run amok if you will, but it was this thought of news and reporting that brought me on board with Hepkitty's blog.  Jeff Gannon was the catalyst that started this ranting for me, and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111557910006129214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111557910006129214&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111557910006129214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111557910006129214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/blogs-and-news.html' title='Blogs and News'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111515975759321844</id><published>2005-05-03T17:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-03T17:56:30.673-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tony in trouble?</title><summary type='text'>Could Leaks Sink Tony Blair?The memo i posted about earlier made the post, but but it focuses on blair and doesn't address that one very important line:But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.Conyers has written a letter about it as well.and it is posted on CNN...  somewhat...  in a tucked-away-in-the-international-edition-cause-its-written-by-a-blogger sort of way. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111515975759321844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111515975759321844&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111515975759321844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111515975759321844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/tony-in-trouble.html' title='Tony in trouble?'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111512021274509018</id><published>2005-05-03T06:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-03T06:36:52.746-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My my my</title><summary type='text'>Blair hit by new leak of secret war plan - Britain - Times OnlineI've never blogged at work before, but i ran across this and just had to link to it.  tomkitty</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111512021274509018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111512021274509018&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111512021274509018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111512021274509018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/my-my-my.html' title='My my my'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111497341195751370</id><published>2005-05-01T13:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-01T14:01:17.223-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mind the company you keep</title><summary type='text'>Untangling a Lobbyist's Stake in a Casino FleetTom Delay has certainly kept some interesting company.  by the tone of the article, it sounds like Abramoff played Delay like a harp, and it seems that Delay was more than happy to be played. Delay's claims of ignorance are a bit meaningless really.  Perhaps he didn't know the full extent of Abramoff's and Kiden's fraud and criminal connections, but </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111497341195751370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111497341195751370&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111497341195751370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111497341195751370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/05/mind-company-you-keep.html' title='Mind the company you keep'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111489221516942439</id><published>2005-04-30T15:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T15:16:55.170-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Just a reminder</title><summary type='text'>Life &amp; Leisure News Article | Reuters.com</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111489221516942439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111489221516942439&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111489221516942439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111489221516942439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/04/just-reminder.html' title='Just a reminder'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111486799781500549</id><published>2005-04-30T08:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T15:17:40.496-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Delay...</title><summary type='text'>CNN.com - Congress-passed budget plan targets Medicaid - Apr 29, 2005House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said it's time to look closely at benefit programs that are "popular but rife with waste.""These entitlement programs deserve reform," he said. "The Medicaid system is antiquated and the quality of care is not being brought to the people that need it."Shut the fuck up Tom.  Seriously.  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111486799781500549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111486799781500549&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111486799781500549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111486799781500549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/04/mr-delay.html' title='Mr. Delay...'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111421172710634851</id><published>2005-04-22T18:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-04-22T18:15:27.106-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A walk down memory lane</title><summary type='text'>washingtonpost.com – White House Briefing – News on President George W Bush and the Bush AdministrationI'm not really commenting on the story itself really, just an odd line taken from a debate at a christian college that georgie will be speaking at, one that happens to be the site of one of the republican presidential debates from 2000."There's a fundamental difference here," McCain said. "I</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111421172710634851/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111421172710634851&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111421172710634851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111421172710634851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/04/walk-down-memory-lane.html' title='A walk down memory lane'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111386564880767127</id><published>2005-04-18T18:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-04-18T18:07:28.806-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>A picture is worth a thousand words really.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111386564880767127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111386564880767127&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111386564880767127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111386564880767127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/04/picture-is-worth-thousand-words-really.html' title=''/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111367870639134531</id><published>2005-04-16T14:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-04-16T14:11:46.390-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Was that so hard?</title><summary type='text'>U.S. Senate: Legislation &amp; Records Home &gt; Votes &gt;To prohibit the use of funds by any Federal agency to produce a prepackaged news story without including in such story a clear notification for the audience that the story was prepared or funded by a Federal agency.There.  That wasn't difficult now was it?  Not quite as good as an investigation, but it'll due for now i suppose.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111367870639134531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111367870639134531&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111367870639134531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111367870639134531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/04/was-that-so-hard.html' title='Was that so hard?'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111367823347492836</id><published>2005-04-16T14:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-04-16T14:03:53.473-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Sit Boo-Boo, sit.  Good boy.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111367823347492836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111367823347492836&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111367823347492836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111367823347492836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/04/sit-boo-boo-sit.html' title=''/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111314578912523867</id><published>2005-04-10T10:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-04-10T10:09:49.126-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Scientific Methods</title><summary type='text'>EPA Scraps Controversial Pesticide Testing ProgramThe Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study would have paid families $970 to videotape how spraying insecticides in their homes affected infants over two years....Um...  I don't really know what to say.  Pesticide is poison...  Do we really need to verify the fact that poison is dangerous to infants?"Information from the study was</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111314578912523867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111314578912523867&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111314578912523867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111314578912523867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/04/scientific-methods.html' title='Scientific Methods'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111195806544195147</id><published>2005-03-27T16:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-03-27T16:14:25.443-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Birthday Hepkitty!</title><summary type='text'>Hey folks,I've been away for a bit planning and reaching the final execution of Hepkitty's suprise birthday party.  We were successful!  This could only have done with the help of our neighbor Ann, who along with Hepkitty's Mom and Dad and her dear friend Carol, helped pull off the best party we have held at our house to date. :)Thanks for all the help guys, and now i'm going to get back to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111195806544195147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111195806544195147&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111195806544195147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111195806544195147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/03/happy-birthday-hepkitty.html' title='Happy Birthday Hepkitty!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111171315354785287</id><published>2005-03-24T19:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-03-24T20:12:33.546-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Going 'Nuclear'</title><summary type='text'>I wrote another letter to the news today.  This time it was at the behest of MOVEON.org as part of their campaign to combat the 'Nuclear Option' with respect to democratic opposition to bush's judicial nominees.  Its brief, but accurate.Dear Editor,I have been thinking about this issue for some time now, and have something I would like to express about this 'Nuclear Option' I have heard being </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111171315354785287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111171315354785287&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111171315354785287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111171315354785287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/03/going-nuclear.html' title='Going &apos;Nuclear&apos;'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111134132039132995</id><published>2005-03-20T12:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-03-22T19:27:36.376-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Terri Schiavo</title><summary type='text'>You know who I feel bad for?  Terri Schiavo.This has been in the news for a long time now, and it really is a tough case to decide.Do you know whose resposiblity it is to decide on Terri Schiavo's fate?Her family and her husband.Do you know whose has no resposibility in this matter?Me, Congress and mr. bush.  Collectively, we have more on our plate to focus on that actually is our business.  Its </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111134132039132995/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111134132039132995&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111134132039132995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111134132039132995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/03/terri-schiavo.html' title='Terri Schiavo'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111129760767123996</id><published>2005-03-20T00:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-03-22T19:28:11.180-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Great Zombie Jesus!</title><summary type='text'>The New York Times &gt; Magazine &gt; Questions for Jeff Gannon: Blogged DownQuote:DEBORAH SOLOMON: Scott McClellan, the press secretary to President Bush, called on you and allowed you to ask questions on a nearly daily basis. What, exactly, is your relationship with him?Jim Guckert / Jeff Gannon: I was just another guy in the press room. Did I try to curry favor with him? Sure. When he got married, I</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111129760767123996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111129760767123996&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111129760767123996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111129760767123996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/03/great-zombie-jesus.html' title='Great Zombie Jesus!'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924662.post-111110035780869312</id><published>2005-03-17T17:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-03-22T19:29:09.283-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A new name for our game.</title><summary type='text'>Christopher G. AdamoThis article is being circulated by the usual suspects, Men's 'News' Daily, Cybercast 'News' Service, and others.Mr. Adamo also works for ....  GOPUSA!Click here for his bio in their words.I can't seem to keep myself from putting the tin foil hat on at least once a day. For some reason, everytime i see a conservative 'journaliast' write in defense of Jeff Gannnon, and the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/feeds/111110035780869312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5924662&amp;postID=111110035780869312&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111110035780869312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5924662/posts/default/111110035780869312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hepkitty.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-name-for-our-game.html' title='A new name for our game.'/><author><name>hepkitty</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06105577259384562089</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
