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The Night Owl Is Curious

about pranks and hijinks, musings and mutterings, and the door is open all night.

Ana's Amphibian Recue Mission

I saved a frog that I found being cooked on the road today. He was little and green and not at all hoppy. I poured a little of my cold water (out for a run) on him and he still wasn't hoppy so I picked him up and kept putting water on him until he livened up. He was released back into nature by an entourage of neighborhood children. Tomorrow he will be eaten by a snake. As it should be. -- Ana

George W. Beast, We've Got Your Number

A Brief Excerpt from "George W Bush is the Anti-Christ"

I submit to you that   George Walker Bush is the ANTI-CHRIST. The violence and destruction that began when Bush first entered office, is now certain to culminate in the apocalypse, as predicted in the Bible over 2,000 years ago.

( I first posted this on Geocities over four years ago, before the 2000 election, to sound the alarm.  Tragically, nobody listened.  Now the World Trade Center has been hauled off for scrap, the Constitution is in tatters, and our nation is off fighting a Holy War in the Middle East.  Today, the final end is nearer than ever before..)

The Evidence:  Let's look at exhibit 1:

                                         The Number of the Beast     

Oh, hell, go read the rest of it yourself.
H/t Ace

One Reason Women Don't Like to Take Men on Vacation

Thanks, Craig and Scott

Dragon Shoe by Homely Villain at Deviant Art

This is the picture of the day at Deviant Art. I think it's extremely cool.

Is the Bush Administration at Fault?

Seriously. We joke that everything is "Bush's fault" -- whether the souffle falls or the kids have cavities or the dog gets worms-- but if the Times-Picayune report on the underfunding of levee projects is a fair and complete account of the facts, then the Bush administration may well have to bear some responsibility for the lack of preparedness in Louisiana:

Newhouse News Service, in an article posted late Tuesday night at The Times-Picayune Web site, reported: "No one can say they didn't see it coming. ... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation."

In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness.

On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."

Also that June, with the 2004 hurricane season starting, the Corps' project manager Al Naomi went before a local agency, the East Jefferson Levee Authority, and essentially begged for $2 million for urgent work that Washington was now unable to pay for. From the June 18, 2004 Times-Picayune:

"The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. Everything is sinking, and if we don't get the money fast enough to raise them, then we can't stay ahead of the settlement," he said. "The problem that we have isn't that the levee is low, but that the federal funds have dried up so that we can't raise them."

The door is open . . .

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Vagina Pseudo-Dentata

Darius at File It Under draws our attention, somewhat gingerly, to the following report on South African ingenuity:

A controversial device, which its inventor claims clamps itself to a rapist's penis forcing him to seek medical treatment and be revealed to the police, will be launched by a South African woman on Wednesday.

The "Rapex" device is inserted into the vagina by a woman who feels she is at risk of rape, and if she is attacked, small burr-like teeth will attach themselves to the tip of the rapist's erect penis, explained inventor Sonette Ehlers.

As he withdraws and becomes flaccid, it is only possible to remove the device by surgery, Ehlers said ahead of a launch and demonstration at Kleinmond near Cape Town.

Landsat Photo of New Orleans

H/t BoingBoing

He's Baaa-aaack

Filthy Commie has returned to the ancestral home and the maltese is glad to see him.