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Crazy Quotes

They're EVERYWHERE!!!!

From the great state (?) of Texas,
Governor Gregg Abbot vetoed a bill that would have allowed hospitals to detain mentally unstable patients for four hours, if the doctors considered the patient a danger to himself or others.

But what makes this case even more disturbing is the lobbying group which convinced him to veto the bill- it was allegedly the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group of paranoid Scientologists who are convinced that modern psychiatric medicine is a conspiracy to sell drugs and control people.

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publican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma argued on Monday that he had the right to lecture women about whether or not they should get abortions because he had impregnated his wife and “had something to do with the birth.”

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That Bush fucker Jeb must go. Here's one of his wacko quotes: we spend too much on “women’s health issues”. Apparently $3.15 in federal spending per woman isn't worth it...

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Rand Paul thinks Anerica's hungry seniors should turn to charity.

Katrina - A Decade Later

Nine years ago I created a website that shared our experiences related to the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

I started this site because all I was seeing on the news was what happened to New Orleans. While New Orleans experienced horrific damage and flooding, my little corner north of the city was virtually ignored by the mainstream media, as well as the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, which took a direct hit from the storm.

In the link above - my labor of love - I have collected pictures, videos and first person experiences from the storm.

We stayed for the storm ten years ago. With the help of alcohol. Damn, the results where something we could NEVER imagine.


The song ""It's The End of the World As We Know it" echoed in my head for two weeks.

The memories may fade. That's why I created my Katrina webpage:

If you have some time, please go thru it, it's full of links and pictures and videos, as well as links to NOLA bloggers telling their own stories.

Thanks for visiting.

Katrina in Slidell

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National Elephant Day Request

The Bronx Zoo has been given the shameful title of the 5th worst zoo for elephants in the country. The New York Times calls Happy the Bronx Zoo’s loneliest elephant. That’s because this highly intelligent and social being is one of the only zoo elephants in the entire United States who is being held alone. And it looks like her living conditions won’t change anytime soon unless we do something about it.

From Change dot org:

I am asking you, my fellow animal lovers, to encourage the Bronx Zoo Director James J. Breheny to release Happy to a sanctuary where she can be in a more natural setting and live the rest of her life in peace.

New standards regarding the keeping of elephants were recently passed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), the accrediting organization for American wildlife institutions. Among their recommendations was that elephants be held in groups of three or more, as they are highly social creatures. Now, zoos around the country are scrambling to comply with the regulations by AZA’s 2016 deadline. Yet, the Bronx Zoo seems steadfast in its opinion that Happy is “happy” with her solitary life. This goes against all scientific data about elephant behavior.

Happy and 6 other elephant calves were captured in the wild from Thailand and brought to the States in 1977. For 25 years, she and her companion, Grumpy, were kept as a pair in the Bronx Zoo. When Grumpy passed away, she was paired with Sammy, who sadly died in 2006. It was then that the zoo decided to end its elephant program, but it didn’t relocate the elephants it currently had.

For 10 years, Happy has been in a sort of solitary confinement, unable to truly interact with the other elephants held at the zoo. This is a social being like a monkey or a dolphin. Elephants thrive in the company of their own kind, where they form multi-generational family groups that remain loyal to one another for life, and the elders pass wisdom down to the younger ones to help them navigate their world.

Happy is likely not at all happy. She has endured a decade of loneliness and deserves the chance to be with others of her kind in a sanctuary. Please join me in telling the Bronx Zoo to release Happy to a sanctuary and let her really have a chance at happiness.

sign the petition here PLEASE!! Or
communicate:

Director of the Bronx Zoo James J. Breheny twitter: @JimBreheny or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bronxzoo?fref=ts
Director, Communications, Bronx Zoo Max Pulsinelli twitter and phone number: mpulsinelli@wcs.org or (718) 220-5182

Here is what I emailed/facebooked them:

You are a member of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Yet, your Bronx Zoo keeps Happy the Elephant in captivity alone? Sir, please think about this. There ARE sanctuaries for elephants. Elephants are highly social animals. Please get with your group of WCS people and agree to make Happy and all of the other Zoo’s elephants happy, by giving them a place to spend the rest of their lives with other of their kind. Thank you.

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45 LIFE LESSONS, WRITTEN BY A 90 YEAR OLD

Awesome Quotes: 45 LIFE LESSONS, WRITTEN BY A 90 YEAR OLD: 1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short not to enjoy it. 4...