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Are_grits_groceries's JournalWho ties a dawg to a park bench while she's having puppies?
Imagine the sort of heartlessness this takes: Your German Shepherd is having puppies, so you tie her to a park bench, look over your shoulder -- and walk away. You're finished. The dog is on her own. You've got better things to do.
Amazingly, that happened in Newark, California, earlier this week. Officer Jennifer Bloom happened upon a dog having puppies in Lakeshore Park while tied to a bench, according to ABC 7.
Even sadder, she said that the dog was in distress, frantically trying to bury one of the puppies who was already dead.
"You know we go through training on how to help a woman deliver a baby, but we never had to deal with puppies," said Bloom.
An uncertain Bloom gathered up the dog and her puppies, put them in her car, and headed to Central Veterinary Hospital in the neighboring city of Fremont. We aren't sure how many puppies were born in the park, but more were on the way.
"I heard some puppies screaming in the back and I knew she was actively giving birth to more as I was driving over there," said Bloom.
When she got to the hospital, she was rattled.
"The police officer was knocking on the back door. She was a little freaked out, just like I was," veterinary assistant Beatriz Retana told ABC 7.
Once at the hospital, the dog continued to give birth, and she had a total of nine puppies. Unfortunately, two didn't make it.
"She's been a great mom. She had a rough time, a really rough time," said vet tech Elizabeth Jardine-Pereira.
http://www.dogster.com/the-scoop/dog-tied-bench-park-having-puppies-german-shepherd
A complete asshole, that's who!
Good on Officer Bloom and those at the Central Veterinary Hospital!
This photo during the incident in DC sums up those who work in The Capitol in different jobs:
@nytjim
smh....
General Giap has passed.
Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who masterminded victories against France and the US, has died aged 102.
His defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1953 made him the first military commander to defeat a major Western power in Asia.
He went on to oversee the Tet Offensive against American forces in 1968, often cited as one of the factors that led to the Americans' withdrawal.
Gen Giap also published a number of works on military strategy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24402278#TWEET910611
OLE MISS HAS TO SUSPEND PLAYERS FOR GAY SLURS (a 'come to Jesus' rant by a TN sportswriter:
OLE MISS HAS TO SUSPEND PLAYERS FOR GAY SLURS
Published on: October 03, 2013 | Written by: Clay Travis
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Let's get right to the point here -- Ole Miss has to suspend every single football player who was involved in hurling gay slurs during a campus play about Matthew Shepard's murder.
Period.
I love the South, it's my home and always will be my home, but I hate stupid ignorance much more than I love the South.
And we have way too much stupid ignorance down here, always have.
Right now Ole Miss has to take a stand against stupid ignorance of all kinds and suspend the football players who interrupted a play about intolerance by behaving intolerantly. The school also needs a major wake-up call, I'd suggest a campus-wide examination of gay rights.
And if Ole Miss won't suspend these players then the SEC needs to do it.
Already people are tweeting me, "free speech," and asking why the "liberal media" cares so much about this story.
First, you idiots, learn how to make better arguments. You have the right to say or write anything in this country thanks to the first amendment. It's the single most important freedom we have. So you can type "your gay," to people you disagree with to your heart's content on Twitter and the government can't do anything to you. But what you don't have is freedom from consequences. Right now the government isn't arresting or investigating Ole Miss players for behaving like boorish idiots, the public is reacting with complete and total disgust to a story that shocks them.
Second, I'm not a member of the "liberal media," whatever that is. I'm about as middle of the road as it comes in the country. I'm anti-idiot and pro-markets, this means I can believe in evolution and support American industry. Shocker, I know. The reason this is a big story is for the same reason most stories become viral these days on the Internet -- because the story is shocking and people can't believe what they're reading. The rest of the country is in complete and total disbelief that Mississippi college students -- ostensibly the smartest, youngest and most cosmopolitan citizens of the Magnolia State -- would ever do something like this during a play about intolerance.
Per the article, which was receiving so much Internet traffic the entire website was unavailable for much of the morning:
According to the play’s director and theater faculty member Rory Ledbetter, some audience members used derogatory slurs like “fag” and heckled both cast members and the characters they were portraying for their body types and sexual orientations. Ledbetter said the audience’s reactions included “borderline hate speech.”
“I am the only gay person on the cast,” junior theater major Garrison Gibbons said. “I played a gay character in the show, and to be ridiculed like that was something that really made me realize that some people at Ole Miss and in Mississippi still can’t accept me for who I am.”
It's not just hate speech, it's public hate speech in a university theater, hurled by the most famous members of the undergraduate student body. And it's not just one idiot, it's twenty, all acting together in a way that encourages stupidity to fester. This isn't a single individual's issue, it's a cultural one.
The rest of the country is completely and totally amazed that this could happen in 2013.
Just when you think the state of Mississippi and Ole Miss can't humiliate itself anymore, it goes and humiliates itself all over again.
You'd think a state that was so horribly wrong about racism, might be self-aware enough to see that it's repeating the same errors with gays.
You might think that, but you'd be wrong.
If the Onion had a headline, "Ole Miss students interrupt play about gay intolerance by hurling intolerant gay slurs," would you have thought it was too fafetched?
I would have.
Then last night happened.
It's not that I'm surprised many of my fellow Southerners are exceedingly homophobic, it's that college students at one of the state's flagship institution are too. These weren't slurs uttered in private by grandpas and grandmas, they were public assaults by people young enough to live in a multi-cultural society.
I spend a ton of time sticking up for the South, but here I've got no defense.
For some reason a decent segment of the Southern male population still feels like the biggest insult you can throw at another man is that he's gay.
Generally, if written, this insult is spelled, "your gay," and is accompanied by a Bible verse on a Twitter profile.
Rather than combat every idiot one at a time on Twitter and email, I've just co-opted their most stinging insult and raised them one level of "awfulness." Okay, I'm a gay Muslim. What else do you have for me? My hope was that by ridiculing the absurdity of an insult by accepting and embracing the absurdity of that insult and then raising it to another level, it might actually cause the idiots among us to think about how stupid they look. But then I see the first amendment and liberal media tweets and I just throw up my hands in disgust.
And stop hiding behind your religion too, "I don't hate the sinner, I hate the sin."
So being gay is a sin? So you really think gay people choose to be gay?
Is this real life?
Being gay isn't a sin because it's the way you're born.
But being stupid is a sin. Combat something you can actually control -- read a damn book.
Sadly, the only way to fight idiots is with punishments and consequences, not false and empty apologies.
That's why Ole Miss needs to take the right stand here and suspend every involved player from football this weekend. And if Hugh Freeze won't do it then Ole Miss chancellor Daniel Jones needs to act and if the chancellor won't act then SEC commissioner Mike Slive needs to act.
Every single football player involved in this incident needs to be suspended. And all non-athlete students who were involved should face severe sanction as well.
Ole Miss has rarely been on the forefront of social progress, but at least it can do the right thing here.
Otherwise, the past really is never past at Ole Miss.
http://outkickthecoverage.com/ole-miss-has-to-suspend-players-for-gay-slurs.php
Clay Travis was a lawyer, but he got way tired of that. He managed to turn his passion for sports into another career. He always gives as good as he gets. In covering the SEC for years, he has gotten a lot.
Now this is a small dawg!
A TINY dog terrier the size of a coke can is vying to be named the world's smallest dog. Little Meysi is 7cm tall, 12cm long and weighs just 150g - about the same as a hamster. The tiny dog was so small at birth that her owner mistook her for a bit of placenta and nearly threw the tiny dog in the bin before noticing it moving. The puppy, now three months old, was born 16 times lighter than the heaviest of her five siblings in Jarocin, Poland. The owners are hoping to get Meysi into the Guinness Book or World Records as the world's smallest dog because she is such a tiny dog.
http://bit.ly/Oc61Hj
WANT!
Cats? WANT to eat!
And this is a big dawg!
Tibetan Mastiff
"A soldier was buried this week"
@shannynmoore:
A soldier was buried this week. His fiancé wore a white dress to the funeral. Afghanistan forgotten. The teaparty wages war on healthcare.
(I have no direct link. I consider Shannyn Moore to be a reputable source in case you were wondering. Somebody will be.)
House GOP members who were nurses & doctors are wearing their white coats
@LukeRussert: Now House #GOP members who were nurses and doctors are wearing their coats
PRIMUM NON NOCERE!
FIRST DO NO HARM! Morans!
Mountain lion, large numbers of deer spotted in DC
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- DC Animal Control officials have confirmed that a mountain lion was seen in Northeast near the new Costco. The Costco is located in the 2400 block of Market St NE.
Shortly after the confirmation, a public works safety alert warned of "massive numbers of deers crossing all streets in Penn Branch."
According to the alert, deer "have been spotted in groups of 3- 8 on the following streets:
-----O Street, 3200 block
--- 38th Street, 1600-1700 blocks
---Carpenter Street, 3700-3800 blocks
--- Highwood Place
--- Highwood Drive, 3200-3600 blocks"
Authorities say the deer usually appear from early dusk to sunrise. They cross streets to graze on grass, eat flowers, and nibble on trees and acorns.
Authorities are asking drivers to be cautious in the area. "Please do not put out food for them, since this will encourage them to return to your block in larger numbers. Just secure your backyard gates and sprinkle non-toxic products like 'Deer Away,' which you can obtain at any hardware store," advise authorities in the alert.
They also ask that you not allow your pets to chase the deer because a male deer, or a buck, can "stomp and possibly kill your pet."
In addition to deer, authorities asked residents to look out for red foxes, possums and other animals. They ask that you report seeing these animal to Animal Control at 311.
http://www.wusa9.com/rss/article/277291/187/Mountain-lion-large-numbers-of-deer-spotted-in-DC
Ted Cruz is chasing Republican House members again.
For all of you applauding Jerry Brown for signing the Nullification of the NDAA provisions,
you do realize you just jumped over the line to be with the Teashitters who want to nullify many Federal laws.
Please don't try to tell me that THIS is different because........
It all boils down to one thing. States trumping Federal laws they don't like.
Do you really want to go there?
The Federal laws are the only things at many times that enforce such things as equal rights and many other items that are essential.
I am not going to argue with you over the NDAA and how bad that provision is. It should be changed IMO. However, choosing to try it California's way opens up a box that dwarfs Pandora's.
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