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Alex's Fur

The other day when Alex came inside from his midnight catting around, I noticed that he had some fur missing from the back of his neck. Against the furball's wishes, I washed the area and put some antibiotic ointment on the wound.

Later I posted these words to Facebook:

Alex just came in from his morning catting around and again he has a chunk of fur torn out of the back of his next. This hasn't happened in more than a year. I wish I knew which of his playmates (or maybe an enemy cat) did that. It makes me reluctant to let him go outside, which isn't fair to Alex, especially since I've not seen what damage HE did to the other cat. Why can't cats get along peacefully like us humans?

I am so glad I did, because Michelene commented:

If Alex is missing only from the top of his neck though, it's fine. it's playful. It's anywhere else you'd need to worry. The scruff is a play/friendly zone.

I've confirmed her observation with a couple of cat sites on the Internnet and am delighted that now know that my furball isn't fighting other cats but playing with them!

Desmond Tutu Honors Aung San Suu Kyi

This week as Amnesty International awarded jailed Burmese democracy leader and Nobel Prize laurette Aung San Suu Kyi, Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town and also a recipient of the Nobel peace prize. wrote:

Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma deserve nothing less than our most strenuous efforts to help them secure their freedom. Every day we must ask ourselves: have we done everything that we can? I pledge that I will not rest until Aung San Suu Kyi, and all the people of Burma, are free. Please join me.

To read all of Archbishop Tutu's words, please go HERE.

2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recepiants

On July 3oth President Obama announced 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. The awards will be presented on August 12. Below is a partial list of the receptients. For the full list and details about teh receoients, please click HERE to go to the White House.

• Stephen Hawking, internationally-recognized theoretical physicist and the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.
• Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has worked tirelessly for health care reform over the last five decades.
• Billie Jean King, teens star, who has championed gender equality issues not only in sports, but in all aspects of life.
• Rev. Joseph Lowery, a leader of the civil rights movement since the 1950s, and co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference along with Dr. Martin Luther King.
• Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, the last living Plains Indian war chief and author of works on Native American history and culture who has served as an inspiration to young Native Americans across the country.
• Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official from a major city in the United States.
• Sandra Day O’Connor, Supreme Court Justice from 1981 until her retirement in 2006, who was the first woman ever to sit on the Supreme Court.
• Sidney Poitier, the first African American to be nominated and win a Best Actor Academy Award.
• Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland who was also United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
• Desmond Tutu, widely regarded as "South Africa’s moral conscience," who was a leading anti-apartheid activist in South Africa.

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