That’s Shy Guy on the top, and Squeak and Sumo on the bottom. We did foster care for them for a month until they were old enough to adopt, then they and their mom went back to the Humane Society. Happily, they were adopted within a week.

The Humane Society has a No Kill policy, and the facility we were at literally has cages of dogs and cats stacked on top of each other because they are so full. When we were there recently someone brought in a cat found in a parking lot that was drooling heavily and obviously in bad shape. We took it to their vet for them and, as it turned out, the cat had abscessed teeth which were quickly removed, and the now-healthy cat is probably in a new home by now.

Someone recently abandoned four kittens in a snowy field where there are feral cats. The Humane Society had been watching the feral colony, rescued the kittens, and they are now, a bit dazed and confused, getting used to being in our spare bedroom. Hopefully we’ll find homes for them quickly. So, if you live in Connecticut and would like to rescue a kitten or two, email me. They’re Maine Coon mixes, about 4 months old and healthy.

And here they are, not the best of photos, however they appear to be settling in just fine this A.M.

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Blowback is the unintended consequences of an action, in this case is the government plan to have mortgage issuers voluntarily freeze rate for some ARM mortgage holders.

“I’ve never seen anything such as they’re suggesting here in my career,” said Lord Abbett’s Ezrati, who has worked in finance for 36 years. “It would be the equivalent of telling you the coupon [the interest rate] on a bond is being changed.”

Or like the government ‘persuading’ your bank to lower the interest rates on your saving account. Would you be likely to continue to bank there in the future? More probably, you would find a bank in another country if you could. The hot money that floats around the world looking for the best return won’t be coming to the US if the government makes their investments worth less.

This could mean higher interest rates with fewer lenders willing to lend. Which in tuurn would make homes harder, not easier, to get.

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German federal and state interior ministers declared the Church of Scientology unconstitutional on Friday, opening the door for a possible ban on the organization.

Germany does not recognize Scientology as a religion. seeing it as a cult masquerading as a church to make money.

Tip: Talk Left, who has quotes from one of their top officials, actor Tom Cruise, who bizarrely insists that Narconon (a Scientologist organization) is the only successful drug rehab program in the world.

Friends of mine who have been off drugs for decades after joining Alcoholics Anonymous  and Narcotics Anonymous will be startled to hear this. Ditto for those who did it through finding Jesus. It doesn’t matter how you get clean, just that you do it. And no one method has the universal answer either.

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Nice visual explanation from Portfolio.

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