So little dog had a seizure while he was sitting on my lap. Very scary and he is doing okay now. Fell off my lap and freaked out. Got to vet and got Valium and lots of other fun drugs. A bit woozy later and throwing up. Apparently 4 year old poodle / lab mixes are prone to this.
With the internet and youtube how many more things like this did we miss .
If you are squeamish do not watch or read the associated text. ( press the (more) for the entire story)
They may be trained but they are still wild.
Whale vs Pelican
“maybe that is part of the other bird, it looks kind of raw”
^ This is a link . Explained;
In 1939, with war against Germany looming, the Government designed three posters to steady the public’s resolve and maintain morale. These featured the crown of King George VI set against a bold red background, and three distinctive slogans - “Freedom is in Peril”, “Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory”, and “Keep Calm and Carry On”.
Two-and-a-half million copies of “Keep Calm” were printed, to be distributed in the event of a national catastrophe
Last time i was in Glasgow was when littlest niece was 1. Hollie with the cold/tonsilitis and everyone else working.
These time difference birthdays are tough. She got a bike . pictures to come
… and Molly Bentley turns 21 , but she is in France so has already been “drinking:”. I need to go find the pictures of her and her sister from 14 years ago. me with no beard and way more hair than i have after last weeks haircut.
But here is what they used to be a standard LINK
Feb 5th 1995 -> Feb5th 2009
( i really should post more now that i have remembered my admin password )
I’m running because I’m fed up with the government mismanagement, the Bush administration’s shameless pandering to war profiteers. I think they set out on a deliberate course to make this war good for the people who were their friends. And I want to try to hold them accountable when I’m in Congress. When I’m in Congress… the Bush administration’s worst nightmare is going to be me with subpoena power because I know everything that they’ve done, and I’m going to hold them accountable for it.
Matt Stoller: But wait wait, let me just interrupt you there, the Bush administration’s gone in 2009.
Alan Grayson: Oh but all the people they set up as the new kings and queens of America are still around. What Eisenhower said, that we need to fear the military industrial compex, has become true because they have manufactured a five year war that they want to perpetuate for a generation or even a century so that they can keep lining the pockets of their friends, the war whores.
Matt Stoller: So, people are going to say, let bygones be bygones, or let’s have some sort of truth and reconciliation commission, what do you think needs to happen?
Alan Grayson: We don’t need truth and reconciliation, we need punishment. We need people to be held accountable for all the mistakes that they made that have screwed us up in this war and screwed us up in this economy. The economy is falling apart, the chickens are coming home to roost. You cannot spend $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in America for a war that never should have taken place in the first place.
Matt Stoller: But be specific, what do you mean by punishment?
Alan Grayson: We’ll put people in prison. We’ll take away the thing that they care about the most, their money. They stole, they hurt the troops, they killed people, they hurt the taxpayers year after year and they’ve destroyed this economy. They’re not going to get off scot-free.
Matt Stoller: Who’s ‘they’?
Alan Grayson: The people who have been running this government and their assistants who have been running companies like Halliburton. Think about it, we have a Vice President who was the head of Hallburton, who got a $23 million parting gift from them when he became Vice President. And he was the one who instigated this war and made Halliburton the largest army contractor in existence.
I never thought i would see in my lifetime. A sane Labour government ( debatable now , but thanks to global financial crisis Brown looks better than John Smith stealing Blair ) ) , The IRA and Northern Ireland situation basically “solved” ( where is Nairac !! ) and now a black president of the USA. Wow !! Oh and still be here after almost 14 years ( next February ) . You should really try this different country crap, it is tough sometimes. Living in your parents houses is easy.
One of my favourite pictures from last year just in time for tomorrows Chili cookoff. ( must finish booth soon )
In its broad strokes, McCain’s life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers’ powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives’ evangelical churches.
THE MYTH: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending.” — Sarah Palin, convention speech
THE FACTS: As governor, sought travel reimbursement for 312 nights she spent in her own home.
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power.
It’s just designed to sell her. The thing was as much as admitted in the on-air gaffe by former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, who was inadvertently caught saying on MSNBC that Palin wasn’t the most qualified candidate, that the party “went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives.”
My own telephone began ringing off the hook with calls from ex-Alaskans and friends of Alaskans determined to help get the “truth” about Sarah Palin into the major media. Pretty much anyone with an Internet connection knows by now that Palin was originally for the “Bridge to Nowhere” before she opposed it (she actually endorsed the plan in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign), that even after the project was defeated she kept the money, that she didn’t actually sell the Alaska governor’s state luxury jet on eBay but instead sold it at a $600,000 loss to a campaign contributor (who is now seeking $50,000 in taxpayer money to pay maintenance costs).
just go read it .. too many scary excerpts.
From John McCain’s remarks on the financial crisis:
…I will never, ever be a president who sits on the sidelines when this country
faces a crisis. Some of you may have noticed, but it’s not my style to simply
“phone it in.”
Washington Post database of Senate members who missed votes from the 110th Congress.
Nice bagpipes
