Silflay Hraka

Last Night

This Morning

Unsure how extensive this will be today. We were up till 2 corralling the sleepover herd. The vegetable bin is calling me.
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I has skwerl!
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Daily Gut - I read the blog, tivo the show, but rarely end up watching it. I’m probably one of the better fans.
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$122 off! Found a leather Peg Perego for the incipient arrival today at a yard sale for eight bucks.

“William Holloway” is leading the name race at the moment–though Scotty M. insists we name his new brother “Fluffy.”
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Gaza
Upon arrival, my first impression of Gaza after a few months of absence can be summarized in one word: gloom. The garbage strewn streets were covered in a thin layer of dust of course from the winds, but it was not only that. IT was the people. They were altogether absent from the streets-on a Thursday night.

“They are scared of the situation, of the absolute lapse of order and law, of where where we are headed. And they are depressed and despondent-there’s no hope anymore for anything. Not even with this unity government. The world has abandoned them. And the result is a foregone conclusion.”

You know, you could always surrender.
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The Plank
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Happy Sink O’la Mayo!

On anniversaries of the Battle of Puebla, and probably at other times, folks would slather this mayo onto tuna sandwiches, even though nachos taste better, and wash them down with fifths of mescale - trying, of course, to get that little worm at the bottom, now affectionately dubbed “Napoleon III.”

To commemorate all the fifths consumed, this quest morphed into what we now call “Cinco de Mayo” (literally, “mayonnaise served with a fifth”).
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Our family has a two-generation tradition of eloping. Here’s hoping Ngnat follows in our footsteps. Or, failing that, that she and/or we possess a shred of sense come the time.
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It’s not gay sex with horses as long as the reporter telling your story hates Rush Limbaugh enough.
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The AP screws up another nature picture. These are not green sea turtles.

Green sea turtles with babies are seen at Karachi Zoo, Thursday, May 3, 2007 in Karachi, Pakistan.Two giant green sea turtles fitted with satellite transmitters have gone missing in the Arabian Sea, setting back Pakistani efforts to protect the endangered species. (AP Photo/Moahmmad Khalil)

Idiots. They are instead African Spur-Thighed Tortoises, as the zoo’s own web page points out.
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Residents can’t tell their homes apart in Cary. we don’t have that problem in Durham, as every bullethole is unique.
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Someone in Fayetteville is in dire need of an ass-kicking.
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Mars is amazing!

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Al Fin
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That’s not cricket, Mr. Branson
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Arrrrr.
But the captain ordered all passengers into the center of the ship while he skippered the ship’s crew through some evasive maneuvers. Meanwhile, the ship’s chief of security (a former Gurkha) drove the attackers back with a sonic cannon — a weapon that emits a hellishly loud beam of noise, and has been used to clear buildings in Iraq.
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Ayman al Zawahiri
“We ask Allah that they only get out of it after losing 200,000 to 300,000 killed, in order that we give the spillers of blood in Washington and Europe an unforgettable lesson.”

So, based on our loss rate, he’d like us to stay for another few hundred years. Talk about a sucker for punishment.
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“Your Mama,” taken to its logical extreme.
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Dilbert Blog
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Touchy little bastards, ain’t they?

The hosts had put on a feast of langoustine and beef, served with wine at the Sheraton hotel. A violinist was playing background music from the stage. Enter the Iranian Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki. The first thing he noticed was that he had been seated at the same table as the American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. Opposite her, in fact.

He then noticed the violinist, who was dressed in a long red evening dress and wrapped in a stole. Moments later - before Ms Rice arrived - he flounced out.
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Mmmm, Tab.

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Saudi Girls Gone Wild (lvi)
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The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. Especially if he’s kind of loony-tunes. (lvi)

A casual observer might also expect that because the Turkish protesters are enemies of Islamic extremism, they are friends of the United States. Not so. The secularists here are if anything more hostile to the West than the AKP. (They are often just as anti-Semitic, too.) Many secularist legislators voted in 2003 to deny U.S. forces the right to pass through Turkey on their way to invade Iraq. At the recent rallies in Ankara and Istanbul, protesters held up signs denouncing “ABD-ullah Gul.” This is an anti-American pun: The letters “ABD” stand for “USA” in Turkish. U.S. camera crews were abused with chants of “Go home, CIA spies.” One particularly lunatic nationalist, Ergun Poyraz, has just published a book claiming that Erdogan is really an undercover Jew who is collaborating with the Mossad to destroy Turkish secularism.
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Free Paris Hilton!

Some comments at the above make the claim that Paris Hilton is a role model for young girls. Seems like somewhat of a stretch to me. I don’t know anyone that thinks she’s anything other than trash–though I guess one could make the claim that she’s a negative role model.
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Endangered seafood cobbler!
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Unlike some, he will eventually grow out of it: Scotty M will on occasion throw a temper tantrum when told that he needs to control his temper. He’s a natural Muslim.
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People who drink crap beer have no compunctions when it comes to throwing it at an objet d’hatred. Why should they? One less Bud in the cooler is never a great loss.

Postscript: Obviously, NASCAR is expanding to Australia.
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Beer and wood. No, the other kind of wood.

Wood can flavor beer in at least three ways. Oak, the most commonly used wood, can introduce notes of vanilla and buttered toast to beer, as it does to wine. If the barrel has been used previously to age another beverage — bourbon, wine or sherry — the residual notes will pass to the beer. Finally, wooden barrels can harbor a range of microorganisms that can affect the beer, a nightmare in most brewing traditions, but one that has been harnessed by some brewers to create deliberately sour and acidic brews.
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