Three Tears and a Smile.

Recently, North Shore Animal League America rescued three Chihuahuas, who we suspect were the inbred litter from backyard breeders. All three of these precious little bundles, only 10 weeks old, have no front legs. Physical deformities such as these are often the result of irresponsible breeding. While we are happy that the breeders chose to surrender these puppies to a shelter instead of fates far worse, we are saddened that the terrible misfortune of the deformities had to happen at all.

The terrible reality of backyard breeding is nothing new. We see it over and over again and the heartbreaking sadness of it never subsides. Backyard breeders are those who breed their animals for various inappropriate reasons. Often, they do not have bad intentions or even realize that they are contributing to a huge problem, but they are. Backyard breeders often breed animals with the intentions of making money or just imagining how cute it would be if their pet had babies, and what wonderful babies they'd make. Below is a link to their website. Please check it out.
http://www.nsalamerica.org/campaigns/chihuahuas/

While thousands of beautiful little souls wait in shelters for homes, backyard breeders and people who own and run the notorious "puppy mills" still churn them out like tomato plants.

Let's do the right thing and get our pets spayed and neutered. Adopt our pets from the shelters. Do what we can to support the "No Kill" shelters. Donate to the ASPCA and the Humane Society. Even if all we do is spread the word to others we "CAN" make a difference.

Long Haul Mexican Trucks

Dvorak Uncensored » Long-Haul Mexican trucks ready to roll on U.S. highways


The Bush administration can proceed with a plan to open the U.S. border to long haul Mexican trucks as early as this week after an appeals court rejected a bid by labor, consumer and environmental interests to block the initiative.

The administration plans to start the program on September 6. Transportation Department officials hope to receive final clearance early next week from the department’s inspector general’s office, which is reviewing its safety aspects, and finalize details with Mexican authorities.

Reviewing safety aspects essentially is a joke. Anyone regularly traveling the border states with Mexico has already witnessed how the Bush Administration reviews safety. Currently, US inspectors check 1% of Mexican trucks entering the country. About 35% fail!
Trucks from Canada have no operating restrictions in the United States.
And there’s no need. Canadian standards are as high - or higher - than US requirements.

Folks on the highway with Mexican long haul trucking companies should get ready to discover one more example of what our government is willing to give away to make corporate lobbyists happy.

Motorola Announces 3G-Powered RAZR2 V9

It's Purple! I want one already!

After Verizon and Sprint announced the Motorola RAZR2 V9m for CDMA networks, ATnT today announced that they will offer the RAZR2 V9 on their GSM network this September. The V9 will be a quad-band world phone with US 3G for fast data. Most hardware features are the same on the GSM and CDMA version. Here is more info from today's announcement:

The Motorola RAZR2 V9, an eye-catching new 3G-powered, 2.0 megapixel, clamshell mobile phone.

Other highlights of the RAZR2 V9 include:* Quad-band GSM/EDGE, Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA.* 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom.* Large 2.0-inch QVGA color external display with touch-sensitive keys.* Bluetooth® Stereo wireless technology.

Amazon.com: Songs of Mass Destruction: Music: Annie Lennox

I just love her music sooooooooo much. I can't embed this video but just follow the link to amazon and watch it.

Amazon.com: Songs of Mass Destruction: Music: Annie Lennox

Voicemail calls, and no calls, can be costly - The Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com

Nicki Harris couldn't understand how she'd exceeded the monthly minutes on her Sprint calling plan. She is careful with her prime-time calling and pays for a plan that gives her free Sprint-to-Sprint calls, so calls to her husband and mother don't eat into her monthly allotment. Yet her bill showed she had shot clear through her 800-minute-per-month ceiling.

A close look at her monthly bill revealed a surprising culprit: Numerous calls to retrieve voice mail had chewed up many minutes.

"I noticed overage charges for calls to my voicemail," said Harris, 28. "I thought this was a mistake, so I e-mailed customer service and they responded that they do not consider calls to voicemail to be a call to a Sprint phone number. ... It's hard to believe."

But it's not a mistake. Free Sprint-to-Sprint calls don't include calls to voicemail, the company told me. And it turns out Sprint isn't alone. AT&T/Cingular and Verizon also charge regular per-minute assessments on voicemail calls.

Add voicemail to the long list of sneaky, hard-to-figure charges to look for in your telecom bills.

Of the four largest carriers, only T-Mobile considers voicemail calls as in-network calls.

more... http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/08/no-such.html#posts

Cheney in 1994 on Iraq

Damages Pilot Preview Video

Oh my goodness! This could possibly be the best show ever. The first two episodes just blew my mind. Everyone, check it out.

This might be the man who can save us from this Demopublican train wreck were on...

Just click on the link below for more information.http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:

He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress