These are three month old Maine Coon kittens. From left to right: Blue-Silver Classic Tabby Female, Black Smoke with White Female, Black and White Male, and Brown Classic Tabby Female. They come from Magnacats Maine Coon cattery in Texas.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
