On this day, my little girl puppy - Ayla - passed away. She had a tumor on the side of her rib cage that grew aggressively over the past few months. The vets had done a few tests at the onset of the issue and determined that it was just a fatty lump. Then the lump grew and moved to a second spot nearby. I took her back in and they told me it ( Read more... )

Just saw this in my local news items the other day and thought some of you might find it interesting...

Rebuilding Biloxi

I bring you an entry from hilltop's journal ( Read more... )

Based on another lj friend's post, I was tinkering around with the following sites -

http://www.dietandfitnesstoday.com/bodyfatAndBmi.phpBased on my weight of 166 lbs. with a height of 5'8", I have an estimated body fat % of 21.44%. My BMI is 25.23. This puts me into the category of 'overweight', which starts at a BMI of 25. Obese is a BMI of ( Read more... )

So, I was working hard over here *cough* and I ran across something about Pablo Picasso. It mentioned his eventual wealth, success, marriage and then young mistress. Wanting to learn more about the gentleman who gave his women square boobs and what-not, I decided to check him out on Wikipedia.

His full name is Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula ( Read more... )

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been ( Read more... )

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

I guess that entry was so big I had to break it into two pieces for LJ. Sorry if the formatting got blown out.


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Select a Candidate: Your results for President

This survey is not designed to tell you what candidate you should vote for. It is intended only to help you think about your positions and then introduce you to the candidates. We have an extensive collection of information about each candidate, and their positions are much more detailed than what ( Read more... )

Conservative - old-school, reactionary, wants to keep taxes in check, keep industry free from regulation so that corporations can profit, thinks we should only get involved in foreign issues when it directly threatens the security of our nation, wants to preserve old-school values and morals, wants to protect the expression of Christian religious ( Read more... )