We cats awoke this morning to a half-inch dusting of snow. By midday it had all melted, and the guy across the street was mowing his lawn. We think it's probably time for spring to have sprung. Until it does, however, here are a few news items to ponder.
Didn't we just wonder if the opposition parties in Canada would try to tar the recently fallen Conservative government as right-wing Republicans in Canadian clothing? Guess what! Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe wasted no time doing just that. "Stephen Harper and his disciples," he said yesterday, are "a populist, retrograde Tea Party" and "think the Flintstones is a documentary."
Hairball alert: The recent story about Republican cartoon character Haley Barbour getting all weepy over abortion makes us cats want to gag. First, we long ago stopped treating seriously any male opinion on the issue. (Get a womb, fellas.) Second, we highly doubt that the bulbous Mr. Barbour would care about our aborted litters since every one of those kittens would have grown up to be a Democrat. Finally, have you seen the infant mortality figures in Mississippi? The state's 10-year average for 1,000 live births is 6.8 for whites and 14.7 for blacks. (The U.S. average is 6.1.) In 2006, Mississippi had the highest infant mortality rate in the nation (10.6). Would that Hefty Haley cared as much about babies after they're born.
Speaking of hot-button social issues, there have to be some pragmatists in the Republican Party — you know, people who understand that you have to win not just a nomination but a general election — who are not happy about what's going on in Iowa these days.
Finally, did the haters from Wichita picket Elizabeth Taylor's funeral, or not? We cats are curious. Although the Phelps idiots have been known in the past to be no-shows, we're hoping that, not realizing Taylor had converted to Judaism in 1959, they were caught off-guard by the speed of the service. Or maybe they were just too busy trying to repair their hacked website. Any day that that filth is removed from the Internet is a good day by us. We cats PURR.
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