Update on Li’l Bit’s vet visit

The vet said to let the sutured area continue to drain, because there is a pocket of dead blood there from the surgery, and drainage is the body’s way of cleansing itself.  We are to take her back next week, at which time they will remove the sutures.
She did have a bit of a fever, [...]

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“Talking With Dave”

I said it before, and I’ll say it again ….. somebody needs to give David Spates his own television show.
Here is Episode #9, “Defending Mama”:

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Update on Li’l Bit

Last week, I discussed how upset I was with the way my little beagle was butchered during cancer surgery. I finally got around to uploading photos, so you can see what I mean when I say she was butchered, and here they are:

She has been doing very well after the first couple of days, [...]

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Inbox Insanity: Dove of Oneness

I subscribe to all kinds of wacky email lists, but Dove of Oneness always takes the cake in the insanity department. She picks news items, and gives them a crazy twist to make it look like she has all kinds of sources very high up in the government, and that literally everything is a [...]

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Li’l Bit butchered by vet when removing cancerous tumor

We’re dog lovers, and a couple of years ago, we took in an old beagle which had been severely abused and abandoned by a major highway. She is the sweetest dog imaginable, very loyal and quiet as a church mouse, and we absolutely love her. However, she is elderly – the vet thinks she [...]

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Writing contest which may interest some of you

As most who read this blog regularly are aware, I’m a professional writer and a member of several highly respected writers’ associations.  As such, I receive invitations in the mail from time to time to participate in this, that, or the other.  More often than not, I toss them without a second thought.
Yesterday I received [...]

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Lori Drew arraignment today

From Fox 12  News, Boise, Idaho:
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A Missouri woman accused of taking part in a MySpace hoax that went bad will be arraigned in a federal court in Los Angeles this morning. Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis allegedly helped create a fake MySpace account blamed in the suicide of a 13-year-old [...]

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Cop shoots, kills man beating infant to death in middle of road

From MSNBC:
TURLOCK, Calif. – Police killed a 27-year-old man as he kicked, punched and stomped a toddler to death despite other people’s attempts to stop him on a dark, country road, authorities said.
Investigators on Sunday were trying to establish the relationship between the suspect and the child they say he killed Saturday night. The Stanislaus [...]

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Update on case involving videotaped beating of teen girl for YouTube

I originally wrote about this case in April, in a piece I called Girls Gone Wild: Brutal Attack On Teen Girl by Other Teen Girls. Here is a news update:
BARTOW, Fla. — Criminal charges were dropped Friday against three of the eight teenagers involved with the notorious videotaped beating of a central Florida teen, [...]

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Man sues Home Depot after being glued to toilet seat

From The Smoking Gun:
JUNE 13–A St. Louis man claims that he was injured last year after being glued to a toilet seat in a Home Depot and is suing the retail giant for negligence. Haywood Rosales, 31, charges that during an August 2007 visit to a Home Depot in Florissant, Missouri he used a store [...]

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“The House Is Small, But The Welcome Is Big”

A fantastic new website tells the story of AIDS in Africa, in a way it has never been told before now.
Cameras were given to women and children who actually live there – the women are HIV positive, and the children are orphaned by AIDS – so they could tell the story of the AIDS crisis [...]

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Reward for information about murder of two young girls in rural Oklahoma

From MSNBC:
TULSA, Okla. – The bodies of two girls were found shot to death in their rural community, along a dirt road the best friends used dozens of times to play and walk to sleepovers.
Taylor Paschal-Placker’s grandfather found the bodies of the 13-year-old and her 11-year-old friend, Skyla Whitaker, on Sunday after his wife got [...]

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Kentucky Fried Cruelty

After watching this, I will never again eat at KFC.

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Psychiatrist plotted to murder patients and feed them to sharks. No, I’m not making that up.

If I had to guess, I’d say this physician is one of the proverbial doctors who went into psychiatry to understand their own insanity.
From the New York Post:
Two fearful patients – whose Long Island shrink allegedly wanted to murder them, chop them up and feed their bodies to sharks – have broken their silence on [...]

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Today Show crowns “cutest, cuddliest puppy”

This little tyke looks like my beagle, Li’l Bit, except that Li’l Bit is elderly.  She gets that cute look on her face, though. 

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