Government Shut Down - Part II

I couldn't resist this one tonight ☺

Malala Yousafzai in Parade Magazine

Malala Yousafzai

The cover story in today's Parade magazine was about Malala Yousafzai; the girl from Pakistan that was targeted and shot by the Taliban a year ago. She is a remarkable young woman, and an inspiration to young and old alike for her determination and generosity of spirit.

Government Shutdown

My favorite memes so far this week poking fun at the federal government shutdown. The whole thing is so ridiculous. 

The most ridiculous moment of the week for me, was when the Congressman from somewhere back east was caught on film chastising a park ranger at one of the monuments in Washington D.C. and telling her she should be ashamed of herself for not allowing the public in. I could not flipping believe it. As if she had anything at all to do with the park being closed, and here she was being ridiculed by someone who directly had something to do with it. 

Italy and family values

This was on Fail Blog, part of the Cheezburger family of websites today. It is Bertolli's response to the comments on September 26th from Barilla's CEO Guido Barilla. He stated that he would never feature a homosexual family in any of his companies advertisements. He feels that it is destructive to children to grow up in a same sex household instead of a "traditional" family.

Now I love Italy, and I'm heterosexual, but I thought it was a pretty funny comment to come from the CEO of an Italian company, given the fact that the former Premier of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, is an over 70 yr. old man who was indicted for having used the services of a 16 year old prostitute. But strangely enough, he was not widely condemned by the people of Italy. Just saying.

It's the Weekend. Yeah! Rain; Just What We Always Wanted. Not!

Bizarro - September 28, 2013

I love these cartoons; Get Fuzzy especially.

Our weekend is going to be a wet and windy one, it has of course already started. I was able to let the cats out earlier during a brief break in the weather, that did not last long. It's hard for them to adjust to not getting to go out all day on the weekends when I'm home, but the weather is crappy, and that's the way it is.

Saturday is my day for household chores including laundry. Munchkin decided to get in the middle of me making the bed......

Get Fuzzy - September 27, 2013

Get Fuzzy - September 28, 2013

Munchkin