It’s a trip to Europe for the131st episode of the Carnival of the Cats, hosted by the many creatures filling the House of Chaos with furry chaos.

Oh, and the catmodel of the week is…

Heart may just be a neighborkitty, but he can still be found at TX Oasis.

If you’d like to host the Carnival of the Cats, let me know which week you’d like to host it.

This is pretty huge: Lebanese Christians rallied against Hezbullah. Note, however, the AP bias.

BEIRUT, Lebanon Sep 24, 2006 (AP)— An anti-Syrian Christian leader dismissed Hezbollah’s claims of victory in its war with Israel as tens of thousands of his supporters rallied Sunday in a show of strength that highlighted Lebanon’s sharp divisions.

The rally north of Beirut came just two days after a massive gathering by the rival Shiite Muslim Hezbollah that attracted hundreds of thousands. The two sides have been at sharp odds over the future of the Lebanese government since this summer’s Israeli-Hezbollah war.

Wait a minute, I haven’t gotten to the bias yet.

Samir Geagea, a notorious former leader of a Christian militia, scoffed at Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah’s declaration that his guerrillas achieved “a victory” against Israel.

A quick look at his Wikipedia biography brings this nugget of information:

Several public figures openly conceded that Geagea’s arrest, trial, and incarceration were engineered by the Syrian-backed political order in response to his movement’s hostile stance towards the Syrian presence in Lebanon.

So how do they describe Nasrallah and Hezbullah in the article a few days ago about the pro-Hezbullah rally?

Hezbollah is armed with thousands of rockets and Nasrallah has said his arsenal survived the Israeli onslaught. He boasted in a TV interview last week that the guerrillas and their weapons were still at the Israeli border in south Lebanon.

The guerrillas have long kept a low profile. They rarely carry weapons in public and have sought to calm the fears of other religious communities in Lebanon by insisting that their arms are to fight Israel and won’t be turned against their fellow Lebanese.

And old Chipmunk Cheeks himself?

The black-turbaned cleric told a crowd of hundreds of thousands of flag-waving supporters in Beirut’s bombed-out suburbs that his guerrillas will give up their weapons only when Israel’s “threats” end and the Lebanese government is strong enough to protect the country.

Holy crap, that’s some mean description there for the man who’s the leader of a terrorist organization that’s killed hundreds. A black-turbaned cleric! Wow, watch out for that AP!

All kidding aside, it looks like the road may get a little rocky for the Hezbies.

Here’s hoping.

Say, wait a minute. I thought Hezbullah was Lebanon. No, wait, it wasn’t. No, wait, it was. Well, when the media makes up its collective mind, someone let me know.