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Are_grits_groceries's JournalGoodbye, Albert (Personal) Paul Krugman's furry friend.
No taper, at least yet. Government shutdown and maybe debt ceiling crisis looming. Obamacare rollout begins in a couple of weeks. There are a lot of important things happening in the world.
But we all have lives, too and here in our household the sad news of the day was the end of the road for our surviving cat, Albert Einstein. We did the necessary for his sister Doris Lessing last fall; today Albert had reached the point where he could no longer stand up, and it was time to say goodbye.
Albert was 21.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/goodbye-albert-personal/
So sorry for Paul. It sounds like they both had a great life together.
People Should Know About This Awful Thing We Do, And Most Of Us Are Simply Unaware (Midway Is)
http://vimeo.com/25563376We are not worthy of such beauty.
Sigh......
E. B. White’s Poignant and Playful Obituary for His Beloved Dog Daisy
Daisy (Black Watch Debatable) died December 22, 1931, when she was hit by a Yellow Cab in University Place. At the moment of her death she was smelling the front of a florists shop. It was a wet day, and the cab skidded up over the curb just the sort of excitement that would have amused her, had she been at a safe distance. She is survived by her mother, Jeannie; a brother, Abner; her father, whom she never knew; and two sisters, whom she never liked. She was three years old.
Daisy was born at 65 West Eleventh Street in a clothes closet at two oclock of a December morning in 1928. She came, as did her sisters and brothers, as an unqualified surprise to her mother, who had for several days previously looked with a low-grade suspicion on the box of bedding that had been set out for the delivery, and who had gone into the clothes closet merely because she had felt funny and wanted a dark, awkward place to feel funny in. Daisy was the smallest of the litter of seven, and the oddest.
Her life was full of incident but not of accomplishment. Persons who knew her only slightly regarded her as an opinionated little bitch, and said so; but she had a small circle of friends who saw through her, cost what it did. At Speyer hospital, where she used to go when she was indisposed, she was known as Whitey, because, the man told me, she was black. All her life she was subject to moods, and her feeling about horses laid her sanity open to question. Once she slipped her leash and chased a horse for three blocks through heavy traffic, in the carking belief that she was an effective agent against horses. Drivers of teams, seeing her only in the moments of her delirium, invariably leaned far out of their seats and gave tongue, mocking her; and thus made themselves even more ridiculous, for the moment, than Daisy.
She had a stoical nature, and spent the latter part of her life an invalid, owing to an injury to her right hind leg. Like many invalids, she developed a rather objectionable cheerfulness, as though to deny that she had cause for rancor. She also developed, without instruction or encouragement, a curious habit of holding people firmly by the ankle without actually biting them a habit that gave her an immense personal advantage and won her many enemies. As far as I know, she never even broke the thread of a sock, so delicate was her grasp (like a retrievers), but her point of view was questionable, and her attitude was beyond explaining to the person whose ankle was at stake. For my own amusement, I often tried to diagnose this quirkish temper, and I think I understand it: she suffered from a chronic perplexity, and it relieved her to take hold of something.
She was arrested once, by Patrolman Porco. She enjoyed practically everything in life except motoring, an exigency to which she submitted silently, without joy, and without nausea. She never grew up, and she never took pains to discover, conclusively, the things that might have diminished her curiosity and spoiled her taste. She died sniffing life, and enjoying it.
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http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/16/e-b-white-dog-obituary/
Sweet....
The Secret World of Fore-Edge Book Paintings (amazing)
The Secret World of Fore-Edge Book Paintings
Theres nothing we love more than an old, handsomely bound book. Much to our delight, the University of Iowa recently published a series of photographs detailing a four-volume set of scientific books from 1837. They contain secret artworks, known as fore-edge paintings, hidden along the edges of the pages.
Its a whimsical art form that dates back to the 16th century, when Italian artist Cesare Vecellio (cousin of Renaissance painter Titian) started using his books as a canvas in order to beautify them. As the artistry of edge paintings developed, they became more complex and fanciful, the painted scenes visible only when the pages were fanned.
In some cases, a different image would appear when fanned back to front and front to back. We went searching for other examples of this beautiful art form, which is being kept alive by a select few today.
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Man fishing
Oxwell Park, Northumberland
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Much more info and more paintings: http://flavorwire.com/413829/the-secret-world-of-fore-edge-book-paintings/view-all/
Muh.....
Who knew? Check your old books.
Everything you need to know about the news about Aaron Alexis:
Well, everybody is certainly listening to that forensic psychiatrist.
Sigh......smh....
"Rape The Gay Away" Pastor Won't Serve Time
Iowa pastor and youth counselor Brent Girouex, who claimed with a straight face that he was trying to cure teenage boys of their homosexual urges by having sex with them, has had his sentence reduced from 17 years in prison to sex offender treatment and probation.Since Girouex confessed to having sex with four underage boys, eight additional young men have come forward saying they were sexually violated by the 31-year-old pastor. Girouex, who is not longer a pastor at the Victory Fellowship Church, believed that he could rape away the gay by praying while he had sexual contact with the boys, all in an effort to keep them sexually pure for God.
According to reports, he told police that when they would ejaculate, they would be getting rid of the evil thoughts in their mind.
Girouex, a married father of four, has had a fair share of backlash since he publicly made his disturbing practices known. One of his most ardent opponents is his wife Erin, who has spoken out against both him and the reduced sentence he received after the initial 17 years he was to serve in prison.
I dont want [my children] anywhere near him, Erin Girouex said to KCII local news. She stated that she has plans for divorce, but that her husbands wanting to see their kids has complicated matters. Currently, he has a court-ordered, twice-per-month visitation schedule, where he must be supervised by his own mother.
While the claim of raping in order to make the victim sexually pure is novel, rapists having their sentences reduced to virtually nothing is not. Girouexs drastic sentence reduction follows closely behind the heels of the actions of a Montana judge, who sentenced a convicted rapist to serve just 30 days in jail, and made comments about how his 14-year-old victim was an active participant in the sexual relationship. The victim, a girl in this case, subsequently committed suicide, and the judge apologized for his remarks, but left the light sentence in place.
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/13/notorious_abusing_pastor_wont_serve_time_pastor_partner/
Probation?
Who are these idiots who think a light slap on the wrist is enough for this kind of behavior? They are deviant in their own ways.
Have you ever walked a mop?
A kennel owner walks one of his Komondors, a traditional Hungarian guard dog, in Bodony, Hungary.
http://reuters.tumblr.com/post/60997326258/a-kennel-owner-walks-one-of-his-komondors-a
Info: http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/komondor.htm
Interesting breed. I can imagine the reaction if I walked one in my neighborhood.
20 Reasons A Cat Is The Best Investment You'll Ever Make
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9. When you belong to a cat, he'll take care of you..
10. ..Always
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/10/cat-best-investment_n_3876550.html
sigh.....
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