My Boring Life
American Flag with the President’s face instead of stars. With any luck her lawyer will demand to know what she thought she was doing instead of helping her try to get around the law.
Germany wants to tax news aggregators. Bets on how long before major sites start blocking German IP addresses…..
Lets see, I need to modify my blogroll, one of hte blogs apparently doesn’t like my coding because it takes 3 or 4 refreshes before it’ll load, so I’m just going to take it off the list and I’ll have to check it manually.
I’m still trying to figure out how to modify the text of links so that they’re a different color or underlined or something. There’s no setting for it so I’m having to dig through the code to find it.
Most everything else is going well though…..
Remember that article about the police being to busy with OWS protestors to respond to 911 calls? Apparently the chief of police was so upset by it he tried to intimidate the reporter into changing the story.
Marine trying to adopt retired Military Dog.
The invisible car, watch the video, its quite interesting!
Merck says it can reduce your allergies to specific allergens.
Student expelled for using pepper spray to defend herself. The students who attacked her only suspended.
These folks moved in across the street over the summer. Nice enough family, 4 kids (2 of each), and a dog. Then shortly after they got a puppy. Not exactly breaking news I know, especially here, except their method of letting the dos out for potty and exercise was to open the door, let out the dogs, and close the door. No fence, no tie out, no supervision. Now maybe at their last place the dog really did stay in their yard. I doubt it personally, but, benefit of the doubt and all that.
A couple months after they moved in Apollo started having his “OMG there’s a DOG in MY yard!!!” snits later at night ( previously he’d occasionally have a fit over a dog that was walked by but that was it), normally he loves other dogs, but not if they’re uninvited in his yard. Took me a while to actually catch a look at the dog in question, and sure enough, the older dog from across the street. Sigh, no sign of the puppy, but when I get across the street she’s sitting on the porch. So I ask them to please keep their dogs out of my yard cause Apollo goes ballistic. They say they will.
Yup, no such luck. We keep seeing both dogs in the yard. And I’m starting to get annoyed at picking up strange dog poo, cause I don’t really know these dogs and all sorts of diseases are passed along that way, but I’m trying to be patient to give them time to retrain. But finally, end of January, I chase the dogs back across the street and say something to them again.
This past Monday I finally got frustrated and called animal comtrol and she said she’d be out there that day. Didn’t actually see her, but MOST times I’ve seen the dogs since out someone’s been out with them. Not that having someone out stops them from heading across the street if said person isn’t watching……And tonight their older dog was in my yard again, much to Apollo’s frustration….never mind the rest of the issues I have with their practice (and there are lots) our street has no street lights, and no posted speed limit, which means that even at night people SPEED down past my house to stand on their brakes so they can make the 90degree turn. Neither dog is white or even really light colored. I’m not going to be happy when someone knocks on my door to tell me that a dog ran out of my yard into the street and they hit it….
Oh, and we have reliable internet again, as do my inlaws. Our routers failed in almost unison…..
And I have a small batch of links I need to post…..
And I called animal control on the folks across the street…..
And…..I’m sure theres something else that happened this week too…..
Blog theme update done, changes fixed, except for the page width which they appear to have broken in the update, sigh……
Photoshop for Oleg, done Thursday night, not sure I got it how he wants it, but we’ll see……
Arty has his dog license, finally……
Arty no longer has diarrhea, which is another post in and of itself……
My car has been inspected (a month late, ooops) and oil change done…..
The front porch is halfway modified so that Arty can’t pull his escape routine with quite so much speed, just need to put the gate on…..speaking of which, what sort of drill bit do I need to drill a hole in light weight aluminium? The gate didn’t come pre-drilled……..
Did you know that up until 12 years ago, when a military dog reached the end of its usefulness it was killed?
In 2000 a law was passed to allow handlers, and the general public, to adopt these dogs and give them a home.
But it left out some important pieces. The dogs are still considered equipment, and when equipment has reached the end of its usefulness the military won’t transport it unless transport is required for its destruction. That means that if a military dog is “retired” while overseas the cost of returning that dog to US soil falls on the handlers and volunteer groups.
Now HR4103/S2134 introduced to the US House by Republican Walter Jones (NC) and to the Senate by Democrat Richard Blumenthal (CT) that would provide for the transport of military dogs so that they can be returned to the US for adoption. And perhaps most importantly it would require the recognition that these dogs are not equipment, they are infact canine members of the military, and not “its”.
For a better write up and more information see Raised by Wolves.
