For my Hound-loving friends in Texas and surrounding states:

There are four Greyhounds waiting patiently for loving homes in an Austin, TX shelter.  Here are direct links:

http://www.adoptapet.com/pet7036606-ss.html

http://www.adoptapet.com/pet7036605-ss.html

http://www.adoptapet.com/pet7036604-ss.html

http://www.adoptapet.com/pet7036603-ss.html

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I have absolutely had it with the 2012 political scene.  Yeah, okay, the President isn't everything we hoped.  We had such high hopes, it's not surprise he couldn't deliver on all of them.

But the alternative?  If the alternative doesn't scare you to death, you must be a lunatic.

Why?  I'll tell you.  Strap in.

Rick Santorum and the other current ( Read more... )

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/blog/podcast-episode-iii

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We woke this AM to some snow.  Maybe 6 inches, so not a lot.  But enough for me to fire up the snowblower and get cracking.

Some starter fluid and cursing - the snowblower is 30+ years old, a hand-me-down from ( Read more... )

A different flavor of FMK, this is Shag, Marry or Shove Off A Cliff, brought to you by ( Read more... )

Friends,

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Inspired by hugh_mannity , who notes today is St Crispin's Day, I am compelled to note it is also the 156th anniversary of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War.

Half a league, half a league,
  Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns ( Read more... )

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Eileen Nearne, MBE, died 2 September 2010, aged 89. She was a wireless operator in France for SOE, where she won the Croix de Guerre ( Read more... )