I am so tired of this crap. When did this become socially acceptable?
I don't know what I am politically, but I can no longer support the republican party.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_el_ho/us_republicans_shooting_range

How can you call yourself a Christian and then gleefully spread lies in order to make political points?

The supreme court is going to strike down a law that bans animal cruelty films. Films like the ones that depict women killing small animals. I am disgusted and angry beyond total belief. Where the hell does free speech mean the right to be cruel to animals. This is total bullshit.

Stopped my car in the middle of the road this morning to rescue a pitt mix mama and her four adorable, fat little puppies from the MIDDLE of the road. Some trailer trash morons let her breed and then didn't bother to confine them in a pen or in the house. They had wandered down the hill to the road and were destined to be hit. I hope they stay at the top of the hill now but I'd bet sooner or later they'll be back to the road. Ass wipe morons. Get the dog fixed if you aren't willing to be responsible.

ABC evening news had an interesting video clip this evening....

Much of the rage over Obama's address to our students centers around a portion of a lesson plan. In it it's suggested that teachers have students write a letter explaining how they can help the president.

OMFG! IT'S INDOCTRINATION!!!!! What if they don't WANT to help the president!?!?!!?!

Now remember, gentle readers, the address is about staying in school...

So along comes ABC tonight with this wonderful video of George Bush 1 in HIS address to students. (Following in the footsteps of Reagan) George looks at his host students and then the camera and asks them to write him letters telling him how they can "help me achieve OUR goals."

give that time to sink in

and then consider the hypocrisy

Then take this to the logical conclusion that the issue is the black man talking to their children.

Forgive me, Lord, if I'm wrong but it certainly seems that's the case.

Go HERE: http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/index.html
Scroll down to the poll and tell the Eagles you don't like their choices. Then paste this on your own blog and encourage others to do the same.
BTW
The MOST votes are in the dislike category.

In case you haven't heard, the Philadephia Eagles picked up Mike Vicks

Watching the last season of West Wing and now remember how horrible it was. At the time it was like a breath of fresh air because seasons five and six had been such a dismal failure, but watching it NOW it's obvious how clueless Wells is. Fast dialogue, busy dialogue does not take the place of substance. Forced relationships between characters doesn't indicate intimacy.

As hard as Sorkin might have been to work with, dismissing him ended this show's light.

That's about it

This is an email I sent to the Today Show, who's guest, a Kennel Club representative, just suggested that the best place to get a dog from was the breeder, that there weren't really that many "purebreds" in shelters because the kennel club did such a good job of rescuing.

IDIOTIC CHIT!!!
If you are so persuaded, write them yourselves?





TODAY@nbcuni.com

Please tell her to educate herself before she makes inane comments that might dissuade people from going to shelters to adopt. FORTY PERCENT of all dogs killed at shelters are "purebreds". Maybe she seeks to line her pockets by suggesting people go to breeders but that public exposure just condemned hundreds of dogs to death.

petfinder.com is the best place to adopt, NOT a breeder wanting to make money.

If this asshat gets ANY sort of NFL contract it will be an injustice. You do not reward this type of jerk. Not for anything. You just do not. Evidently he's been told he's being released soon. We may need another email campaign.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Michael-Vick-thinks-Michael-Vick-is-still-worth-?urn=nfl,151410

Brindi is a rescue dog. She was not well treated before her new human found her. Like most rescue dogs she had some issues which her owner was working her through. Brindi had a spat with another dog. It wasn't serious, even by the account given by the other dog's owners, but when the humane? HA! society of nova scotia heard of the encounter they came for Brindi without notifying her owner, without giving her owner a chance to even dispute their concerns. Brindi was sentenced to die.

After a long legal battle a judge ruled the SPCA there did NOT have the authority to act as they did but the city is still insisting on killing Brindi. This dog has been away from her owner for months. They won't even let Francesca visit with Brindi.

Please watch and considering help. Consider emailing or writing or calling the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Tell them the eyes of the world are on them and that Brindi needs to be sent home.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1077409019157


I don't know if you can get to the video that tells her story, LJ seems to be having embedding issues, but this is the dog they want to kill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imWSQl3WoMs

Watching the sixth season of West Wing this morning I am reminded again why I dislike Wells so much.

The Bartlett Administration was our hope for a return of Camelot. Of honor and respect in the midst of disagreement. It was how we wanted things to work. Bartlett and his crew were truly working for a greater good even while dealing with human fobiles.

Then comes Wells and pushes Sorkin out. For the record: I don't care what issues Sorkin has or had. NBC knew what they were buying when they took the series.

Wells takes the character of Jed Bartlett and makes him a Bush in training. Where earlier in the series he was outraged at the loss of a single human life, Fitzs dies and we see nothing of the mourning and instead watch as he focuses on the logistics of the battle. Nah. He was ready to nuke a country over the death of a single, little known man in season 1. Granted that may have been tempered but not to this degree.

Then this politically savvy and honorable team that we've grown to love appears to need a newbie to the white house to school them on how things are done. I don't remember the character's name, I don't want to remember her name, but for Leo, one of the most aware characters in the show, to suddenly need to be schooled by someone less than half his age.....nnnnaaaah. It's not beliveable and it cheapens the characters we grew attached to.

Just...hate it. After season 4 WW wasn't the show we grew to love.

It's not mine
I didn't upload it
It's certainly not Dax.
I have no clue where it came from, how it got in my pictures and what happened to the one I had uploaded of Dax.

I can't help it. I'm am excited. Not because Bush is leaving office, although that's decidedly a good thing imo, but because we're going to make history today. It is a new era. I know that sounds trite but in my opinion it is.

When I was young I went to an all white pool. Blacks weren't allowed in. I still remember the change in society's laws and their arrival to the facility. Some parents refused to allow their children to swim there afterwards.

I remember the owner of a department store in Charleston barricading himself inside with a shotgun and refusing to allow blacks to shop in his store.

I remember the little school on the hill that used to be the "colored" school.

and now we are going to see our first black president. I am proud of America. Proud to the point of tears. Barack Obama's inaguration signals progress. Signals hope.

I was blessed with a father and mother who saw color but didn't make the difference in how they treated people. A man was a man regardless of color of his skin, money in his pocket or cut of his clothes. I am thankful for their influence.

Prejudice is still an ugly fact of our society but...

We're making history today and I am so excited to be able to see it and experience it in some form.

If you have pets you're obligated to provide for them and that doesn't mean taking them to a shelter to be put down simply because YOU are going through a rough patch. Don't ask me for sympathy because the lack of responsibility is disgusting. Don't whine there aren't options because there are ALWAYS options if you get off your butt and look for one. And don't complain that life is hard. If you're evicted TWICE something's going on that YOU have control over. Soul searching is your friend.

You say you can't afford one thing and then another? Well, you have internet and you had a plane ticket. Before I would put my animals in a shelter and have them put down both of those things would be gone, as well as anything else of value that I owned.

especially if it has narration....

At least they're listening. To the public and to the law makers it would seem.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081202/ap_on_go_co/meltdown_autos

DETROIT – Ford Motor Co. will tell Congress that it plans to return to a pretax profit or break even in 2011 when the Detroit Three automakers' CEOs appear before lawmakers this week to request $25 billion in government loans.

Ford CEO Alan Mulally said he'll work for $1 per year if the company has to take any government loan money.

After grilling the CEOs at hearings last month, Congressional leaders demanded plans from the automakers by Tuesday to show that they will survive if they get federal funds. The plan Ford submitted said the company will cancel all management employees' 2009 bonuses and will not pay any merit increases for its North American salaried employees next year.

The company also said it will sell its five corporate aircraft. The CEOs of all three Detroit automakers were harshly criticized during last month's hearings for flying to Washington in separate corporate jets

The company said it will accelerate plans to roll out electric vehicles as part of its plan.

"We are going to do that across our product line," Mulally said in the interview.

The first plug-in vehicle will be a Transit Connect small van for commercial use in 2010 and a car the size of the Ford Focus compact the following year.

Ford also said it will accelerate plans for hybrid gas-electric vehicles.

Mulally said he will encourage automakers and parts suppliers to join forces to develop new battery technologies in the U.S. for future electric cars so the country doesn't rely on foreign batteries.

"We don't want to trade oil for batteries," he said.

Ford's plan calls for an investment of up to $14 billion to improve fuel efficiency over the next seven years. The company said would improve the overall efficiency of its fleet by an average of 14 percent in 2009.