tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107492942009-03-01T16:42:49.674-07:00The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. ~Benjamin FranklinPat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.comBlogger536125http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-5887167540284574802008-08-26T16:33:00.001-06:002008-08-26T16:35:35.267-06:00For those misguided souls who believe John McCain is a moderate. Besides opposing a women’s right to legal and safe abortion, he is also anti-birth control. John McCain’s Record on Opposing Women’s...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-89304809202272606172007-02-09T09:06:00.000-07:002007-02-02T11:11:08.966-07:00*On the front page of Yahoo is a blurb about Anna Nicol Smith, titled, "Why We Cared About Her: She Persevered When Others Would Have Given Up." Oh, puh-lease. We've got soldiers risking life and...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-48568422279923357142007-02-02T11:08:00.000-07:002007-02-02T11:11:10.506-07:00'Been busy with this, by the way. An ongoing, learning, project. People are hard to draw. Cheers, P.K.Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-64536003152658772062007-02-02T10:52:00.000-07:002007-02-02T11:01:30.034-07:00Made the mistake of peeking at the Albuquerque Journal (the local right wing rag, masquerading as journalism). Anyhoo, both Bill Richardson and the Catholic Church are supporting this year's attempt...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1155057669562500332006-08-08T11:21:00.000-06:002006-08-08T11:30:01.110-06:00Because, if you are going to smack down the idiots, you should provide proof. Lush landscaping using water-thrifty, flowering plants. Click the "Read More" for flower pictures. P.K. Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1155055499971097142006-08-08T10:00:00.000-06:002006-08-08T11:32:04.010-06:00Despite less than eight inches of rain a year, Albuquerque, New Mexico can grow some big wingnuts. Case in point, the owner of StoneGate Turfgrass Ranch, who claims that Albuquerque is as wet as the...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1155052560255338672006-08-08T09:01:00.000-06:002006-08-08T09:56:00.436-06:00Well, at least they are contributing to the economy. Unfortunately, they're also contributing to bigotry and stupidity. Found in my email this morning: From one Troy Hake, President of Outside...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1154713549138771492006-08-04T11:35:00.000-06:002006-08-04T11:45:49.173-06:00Especially the ones who are attached to breasts. Seems a bunch of soccer mommies got their panties in a twist over the recent cover of Baby Talk because it depicts a, gasp, naked booby with a baby...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1154710894115255512006-08-04T10:39:00.000-06:002006-08-04T11:01:34.453-06:00Oh, now this is priceless. I love the way his arms and legs go flying through Outer Space. Go Darth Vader! Matthew McConaghy is one of those celeb guys who women are supposed to love. Hollywood...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1154109211144641722006-07-28T11:26:00.000-06:002006-07-28T11:53:31.310-06:00Flotsom and jetsom floating around my mind today. How do wingnut fundies work the whole in vitro fertilization thing? I mean, in the sex-obsessed culture of fundies, masturbation is a bad, bad...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1153757422156640312006-07-24T10:08:00.000-06:002006-07-24T10:10:22.196-06:00Mahvelous This was great, especially... Or when Snow's boss [Bush], that tough-talkin', crumb-spittin', neck-rubbin' international buckaroo, uses the first veto of his presidential career and...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1153515858139036322006-07-21T15:04:00.000-06:002006-07-21T15:05:47.973-06:00Vacuum, that is. Was recently thinking about bad movies again. I mean bad as defined by me, not some critic, which means some of the movies I hate are loved by critics. "Bad" also means "took...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1153513717219216012006-07-21T14:28:00.000-06:002006-07-21T14:38:53.213-06:00Makes me think of the Sting song... I dream of rain, I dream of gardens in the desert sand. A rare overcast day in hell, I mean the desert southwest. I hate taking pictures on a sunny day. Blasted...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1153513226568871022006-07-21T14:20:00.000-06:002006-07-21T14:26:36.400-06:00Flowers for mom. First some liatris. Then some Mexican Hats (prairie coneflower) with lavender. Getting back in the habit of posting here. P.K.Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1151689649618848562006-06-30T11:41:00.000-06:002006-06-30T11:47:29.653-06:00How we will celebrate the Fourth of July. I will stitch American flags into bedsheets. The husband and I will proceed to have hot, sticky sex all over Old Glory. Recent attempts at an idiotic flag...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1150477767572824542006-06-16T11:09:00.000-06:002006-06-16T11:25:46.300-06:00For anyone--read, Mom--needing proof that I am alive, regular posting has been shifted over to the Life Journal. Linky in the sidebar. (You can find it, Mom, it's not that hard to scroll down.)...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1150147469243580892006-06-12T14:41:00.000-06:002006-06-12T15:24:29.956-06:00The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig, the second in a series, is one of those books that leaves me feeling like the spouse at a high school reunion, smiling stupidly at references that mean...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1149884304056722402006-06-09T14:18:00.000-06:002006-06-09T14:23:25.136-06:00A three-win situation. 1. Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border, 2. Take the dirt and raise the levies in New Orleans 3. Put the problem Florida alligators in the moat. Do you have any...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1149884083174391112006-06-09T13:55:00.000-06:002006-06-09T14:31:12.830-06:00Or "Pat Does a Girly Scream." First mistake I made was having a bit of lunch before I went out to see the horse. When I got home from lunch, Nik the Wonder Horse was standing by the gate, waiting....Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1149698949648326052006-06-07T10:28:00.000-06:002006-06-07T10:49:09.683-06:00Somewhere Pat Robertson and Ricky Santorum are wanking off to gay porn. I mean, that's all right wing fundies do, right? They think obsessively about gay sex. In fact it dominates their political...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1149542050789062302006-06-05T14:52:00.000-06:002006-06-05T15:14:10.813-06:00The mantra around our house: "She's old." Here the Rat Dog has forced the J-Man to abandon the table and she is putting footprints on my latest sketches. "Bad dog, get off the table!" And she...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1149283611089806312006-06-02T14:30:00.000-06:002006-06-02T15:32:45.686-06:00Uh, I dunno. It just struck me for a great title for a cookbook or...a cartoon about farts. On hot air... I was wrestling with the idea of libraries today, specifically my use of them versus buying...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1149280057576480882006-06-02T13:59:00.000-06:002006-06-02T14:27:37.623-06:00It seems that catnip likes the desert southwest. A couple of years ago, a local plant nursery gave me a free catnip plant which I planted in a little pot. It then started to seed itself all over the...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1148677266628278262006-05-26T14:34:00.000-06:002006-05-26T15:22:20.430-06:00Because there is entirely too much cat blogging... Nikster the Wonder Horse as a child. Scanned from an old photo. Somewhere I have a wobbly newborn picture of him, but I can't find it. Here he is...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-1148662192625527902006-05-26T10:40:00.000-06:002006-05-26T10:57:34.886-06:00Hell hath frozen over: Can you contribute to run an Internet freedom ad with the improbable pairing of MoveOn and the Christian Coalition? Click here to see the ad and make a donation...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0