Caturday

Cats and Crumbs.

Caturday and more.

Will the trolls win the internets?

A scientist fights back.

Police steal from innocent people.

Whatever Iceland is doing right now.

How to vote in November.

Caturday

Cats being jerks.

Friday Cat ... on Saturday

Because

Cat.

Caturday

Is it safe?

Not yet...

I will loooove you and loooove you...

Caturdays

Some days I feel like



and some like



On bad days I'm like



And with this Republican presidential candidate campaign I'm like



But today I'm cool and gonna have a good meal and let things just air out....

Friday Hope on Saturday

Phila of Bouphonia's Friday Hope blog.

And a cat:

How my day feels like...

At the moment.

Saturday funnies ... and a cat.

Fishing is hard.

Best engagement photos ever.

There is no escape.

It's warm on a lap... top.

Is it Caturday or just Friday Cat blogging?

I can never remember when it's dark outside and spooky sounds are crickling and creaking and something moves in the bushes and .....

I almost forgot Caturday....

Now with oil....

Sorry about that.

How about some smothered bird sauteed with crude, instead?

Hope, briefly

Phila of Bouphonia will take links if you have them.

And of course, in celebration of Caturday, a cat:

If cats reported the news...

It's Saturday! Do you know where your cat is?

CHICAGO – No one knows how a tabby cat named Charles traveled the 1,300 miles from his New Mexico home to Chicago, but he's set for a complimentary flight home on American Airlines in a carrier donated by an Albuquerque business.

Charles disappeared about eight months ago while his owner was out of town and a friend was caring for him.

Report from Texas, Muffin.

Today, the Texas State Board of Education released amendments to the state's social studies curriculum that essentially rewrite history to comport with the personal ideological and religious beliefs of some members of the board. As explained below, the proposed amendments depart drastically from accepted historical accounts. Indeed, as the New York Times Magazine has reported, they are so disturbing that at least one member on the board vehemently exclaimed, "burst[ing] out in seemingly embarrassed exasperation": "Guys, you're rewriting history now!"

If the changes are implemented as proposed, it could affect the education of students from kindergarten to 12th grade across the country for the next 10 years: because Texas is one of the largest purchasers of textbooks nationwide, the changes the board makes to its standards often end up in textbooks purchased by other schools districts around the country.

Over to you, Whiskers.

Democrats don't want to deviate far from the Dodd draft, and they love the politics of putting Republicans and Wall Street on the same side of a battle line. They hope the optics there will be so bad, that Republicans will ultimately be shamed into caving. But ultimately Dems need 60 votes simply to debate the bill, and if the Republicans stick together in the face of a likely political backlash, there won't be a bill. And nobody knows dedication like the Senate GOP.

A lot of feathers will be flying, to be sure. To Spot for the weather:

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Global temperatures fueled by El Nino seasonal warming last month chalked up the hottest March on record, US weather monitors reported.
"Warmer-than-normal conditions dominated the globe, especially in northern Africa, South Asia and Canada," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a statement on Thursday.
Combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for March 2010 was the warmest on record at 13.5 degrees Celsius (56.3 degrees Fahrenheit), which is 0.77 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average of 12.7 C, it said.

Stop being so theatrical, Spot. Our science report from Midnight:

LONDON – A lingering volcanic ash plume forced extended no-fly restrictions over much of Europe on Saturday, as Icelandic scientists warned that volcanic activity had increased and showed no sign of abating — a portent of more travel chaos to come.

Scientists say that because the volcano is situated below a glacial ice cap, the magma is being cooled quickly, causing explosions and plumes of grit that can be catastrophic to plane engines if prevailing winds are right.

And more from the Onion:

PASADENA, CA–A team of cold-hearted, killjoy scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory callously announced Monday that the likelihood of complex life on Mars is "extraordinarily low," dashing the hopes of the public just like that.

Cats are secretly unmoved by this announcement....

Caturday.

Escape the day filled with sound and fury

And read Phila of Bouphonia's hope post.

And admire his new fur acquisition.... (hint: looks like one of these but cuter!)

Caturday made special

Because of Phila of Bouphonia's hope blog.... and a picture of a cat.

Not just a cat. A large cat. A photoshopped fluffy mound of fur cat.