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I just caught Poppy (10 month old tortie) dipping her paw in my glass of orange/pineapple juice. It must have tasted good because she 'dipped & licked' again! Is she being rude? Or am I being "overly sensitive"?

When "Mr. Conservative" Barry Goldwater(R) ran for president in 1964, he was considered by many to be a dinosaur and "too far right". Today, Goldwater couldn't pass muster for RNC funding of a campaign because his views of small government place his position "too far left" for today's GOP.

-- GOP leaders adopt litmus test of values for candidates

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/30/go...

-- 2008 Republican Platform - Values

http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/Values.htm

-- Barry M. Goldwater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/bestof/2009/award/b...

-- United States presidential election, 1964

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_preside...

What's your opinion and explanation for this 'shift' within the GOP?

Howard Zinn, one of the country’s most celebrated historians, died of a heart attack Wednesday in Santa Monica, California. He was 87.

His classic work, A People’s History of the United States, changed the way we look at history in America. First published a quarter of a century ago, the book has sold over a million copies and continues to sell more copies each successive year.

http://www.democracynow.org/tags/howard_zinn

Published in 1980 with little promotion and a first printing of 5,000, "A People's History" was — fittingly — a people's best-seller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth and reaching 1 million sales in 2003. Although Zinn was writing for a general readership, his book was taught in high schools and colleges throughout the country, and numerous companion editions were published, including "Voices of a People's History," a volume for young people and a graphic novel

"I can't think of anyone who had such a powerful and benign influence," said the linguist and fellow activist Noam Chomsky, a close friend of Zinn's. "His historical work changed the way millions of people saw the past."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wir...

In 1977, I got my first taste of history told from a perspective that made me think and question... thanks to "The Post-War Years" by Howard Zinn.

Thank you Howard Zinn for being a voice of, and for, the people!!

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FDA Alerts Pet Owners to Voluntary Recall of Premium Edge Cat Food

October 20, 2009

http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVM...

FDA is providing the following information from Premium Edge Pet Foods to alert pet owners of a voluntary recall of certain cat foods manufactured by Diamond Pet Foods for Premium Edge. The affected brands were found to contain an inadequate level of thiamine, which may cause clinical signs of thiamine deficiency in cats eating this food. FDA is working on this situation and will provide additional information as it becomes available. If your veterinarian diagnoses that your cat has become ill from consuming the affected pet food, please ask your veterinarian to file a report with FDA.

Diamond Pet Foods has issued a voluntary recall on the following date codes of Premium Edge Finicky Adult cat food and Premium Edge Hairball cat food: RAF0501A22X 18 lb., RAF0501A2X 6 lb., RAH0501A22X 18 lb., RAH0501A2X 6 lb. The date of manufacture is May 28, 2009. All retail outlets shipped the above lots were contacted, asking them to pull the product from the store shelves. The retailers were also asked to contact their customers via email or telephone requesting them to check the date code of the food. However, if you or anyone you know has these date codes of Premium Edge cat food, please return them to your retailer.

The company tested the product and found no contaminants in the cat food; however the cat foods were deficient in thiamine. Diamond tracked the vitamin premix lot number that was utilized in these particular cat foods and have performed testing on another lot of Premium Edge cat food that used the same vitamin premix, and it was not deficient in thiamine. No other neurological signs have been reported on any other product manufactured by Diamond Pet Foods.

To contact Premium Edge Pet Foods, please call 800-977-8797 between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm central time, Monday through Friday.

Underfoot (21 mos.) jumped about two feet the first time she felt warm air from the heater vent on her belly. Then she crept back very slowly and low to the floor, and stuck her paw out to check out the warm air.

Poppy (6 mos.) has stared down intently into the vents, but felt the warm air the first time this morning. She circled the vent, back arched and tail puffed up, then "attacked it" by smacking it with her paws. (The vent survived, but has apparently been beaten into submission now!)

What's your "Funniest First"??

Hello,

My 15 year old, Miss Peabody has been diagnosed with oral cancer. I got the results back from her biopsy (7/16/09) as Adenocarcinoma and have been doing a lot of internet (and soul) searching to try to figure out where we go from here and what I can do that's best for her well-being and quality of life. Over the past three months, we've been on a roller coaster ride of sinus infection, tooth extraction, maybe cancer, not cancer, another tooth extraction, swollen gums from sutures, then cancer diagnosis by sight there's no more to do. I took her to a different vet for a second opinion and like that this vet is researching the pathology results, considering (laser) surgical options and is overall more interested in her case, rather than just immediately giving up and giving over to a "Hospice only until Euthanasia" protocol.

So far, Miss Peabody is eating well... she woke me up (abruptly and noisily!) at 5am yesterday because her canned food dish was empty and she wanted it filled IMMEDIATELY! She seems fairly content, affectionate and is purring. I'm just not ready now to give up, but I want to make sure I'm not just being selfish concerning her comfort and quality of life.

Any Advice?? Thanks!!

The US and Russia agree that cyberspace is an emerging battleground. The two sides are expected to address the subject when President Obama visits Russia next week and at the General Assembly of the United Nations in November.

However, the US and Russia ideas differ in HOW to address the problem.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/world/28cyber.ht...

RUSSIA favors an international treaty along the lines of those negotiated for chemical weapons and has pushed for that approach at a series of meetings this year and in public statements by a high-ranking official.

U.S. argues that a treaty is unnecessary. It instead advocates improved cooperation among international law enforcement groups. If these groups cooperate to make cyberspace more secure against criminal intrusions, their work will also make cyberspace more secure against military campaigns.

Which approach do you favor? Or do you have different ideas on the best way to handle the problem. Relevant links are always appreciated!

Thanks for your opinions!

Last night I tuned to that O'Reilly fellow's show and Glenn Beck was the guest. He was talking about ACORN... and he had props! Seriously, he had a pink doll house with several dolls and a toy sports car!! I forgot who the guy and gal dolls were supposed to represent because I was both stunned and laughing. Here are links to the segment:

http://www.wikio.com/video/1302872

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/23/glenn-bec...

I'm not a regular viewer of Fox...

Is that typical behavior for that Beck fellow?

Do you feel that a grown man playing with dolls to present his political opinion is insulting to the viewer's intelligence?

Right up front, I'll say that I find BOTH very disturbing because I'm against "filtering" free speech. Also, neither confronts the role of the FCC in allowing media outlets to be 'gobbled up' by a small number of corporate conglomerates... the ultimate "filter". What do you think? Please feel free to provide links that back your opinion :)

(Those who know me know I love links!! :)

Straight story....

Yesterday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) launched the Media Fairness Caucus, made up of about a dozen House Republicans, aiming “to fight liberal media bias.” No Democrats have signed on yest, but Rep. Smith says he welcomes all to join the caucus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhLysofURV0

"Left Spin":

Smith must be concerned about a media system that hosts Liz Cheney a dozen times in ten days, or invites twice as many Republicans on as Democrats to discuss the stimulus package, or consistently favors conservative commentators and politicians on the Sunday political talk shows. Not to mention an entire cable network that blatantly cheer-leads for the far right."

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/04/smith-media-bi...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/21/115047/405...

"Right Spin":

“Both the bias in favor of Obama and the bias against bringing up anything negative about him clearly had an impact on the outcome,” Smith says. “After the election, several reporters came out and wrote that they are embarrassed with their profession because the media were in the tank for Obama.”

http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/media_bias_House_ca...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/06/04...

And your opinion?

Question: Why is the Right accused of trying to control a

woman's body when we really only care what you do to the child?

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Your argument is still a thinly veiled 'justification' for interfering into another person's rights and their decisions, as well as imposing your own definition of when life begins. Bottom line... True support of personal responsibility means accepting other people's right to make choices that differ from the choices you might make for yourself.

... and take time out from asking and answering questions to VOTE? (for best answer on some of the 'undecided' questions)

Since this is such a busy section, there are currently 39,298 undecided questions.

A bit long... but balanced, hopefully interesting, and NOT a rant...

There's been much buzz in the media and on the net regarding draping and backdrops used for President Obama's speech at Georgetown University on April 14, 2009. Due to a Washington Times misquote of a CNS News article, A Whitehouse request to cover all signage and symbols behind the stage to accomodate the backdrop of flags, pipe and drape used for policy speeches quickly morphed into Obama himself had insisted that the "IHS" symbol for Jesus be covered.

-- Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx...

-- Jesus Missing From Obama's Georgetown Speech

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Jesus-Miss...

-- Scarborough repeated myth that White House requested Jesus' name be covered up

http://mediamatters.org/items/200904170026

... Is there a <retroactive> memo that covers hemorrhoids? Use of pepper spray?

"A Tunisian national who was jailed at CIA secret prisons in Afghanistan as well as at Guantanamo Bay has filed a lawsuit accusing the US of torture. The suit by Rafiq Alhami (rah-FEEK' al-HAH'-mee) is believed to be the first alleging torture well before the Justice Department issued a secret memo authorizing waterboarding and other methods in August 2002. Alhami was arrested in November 2001 and says his torture began one month later. He was allegedly stripped naked, threatened with dogs, shackled in painful positions for hours and beaten. Alhami also says interrogators sprayed pepper spray on his hemorrhoids, causing harsh pain."

-- Ex-CIA, Gitmo Prisoner Sues US for Torture

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/24/headlines

-- Lawsuit: Detainee was tortured by U.S. in late '01

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanam...

http://www.examiner.com/a-1977582~Lawsuit__Detaine...

btw... 2001 was PRIOR to the memos that "authorized" torture.

Do You See The Irony?

A bit long... but balanced, hopefully interesting, and NOT a rant...

There's been much buzz in the media and on the net regarding draping and backdrops used for President Obama's speech at Georgetown University on April 14, 2009. Thanks to a Washington Times misquote of a CNS News article, A White House request to cover all signage and symbols behind the stage to accommodate the backdrop of flags, pipe and drape used for policy speeches quickly morphed into an outcry that Obama himself had insisted that the "IHS" symbol for Jesus be covered.

-- Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx...

-- Jesus Missing From Obama's Georgetown Speech

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Jesus-Miss...

-- Scarborough repeated myth that White House requested Jesus' name be covered up

http://mediamatters.org/items/200904170026

In early 2003, during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, there was similar buzz over a mural at the United Nations that was also draped. The spin was that the mural had been censored by the White House, Bush Administration, Colin Powell, UN officials (pick one or all the above). Most likely a large, blue curtain merely photographed easier and was was thus a more appropriate backdrop for the cameras. The mural was a reproduction of a famous portrait by Pablo Picasso, depicting horrified faces and titled "Guernica" (link to .jpg image file below), named after a Basque town of the same name.

http://kbagdanov.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/picas...

on April 26th, 1937 (market day), Guernica was carpet bombed by Facist Italian and Nazi German forces. Three-quarters of the town was destroyed and 1,600 civilians were killed.

-- Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" censored at U.N.

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/News/guernica.htm

-- The "Guernica" Myth

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Artic...

-- On Anniversary of 1937 Guernica Bombing, Basque Community in Idaho Looks Back

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/24/on_anniversa...

To repeat the question... Do you see the irony? Or perhaps more appropriately, which irony do you find most striking?

Chomsky says:

"they're simply recycling, the Bush-Paulson measures and changing them a little, but essentially the same idea: keep the institutional structure the same, try to kind of pass things up, bribe the banks and investors to help out, but avoid the measures that might get to the heart of the problem."

Link for Audio or video:

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_cont...

Link to transcript:

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_cont...

~~~ Happy Nowruz!! ~~~

http://www.crystalinks.com/noruz.html

Nowruz is the traditional Iranian festival of spring which starts at the exact moment of the vernal equinox, commencing the start of the spring. It is considered as the start of the New Year among Iranians. The name comes from Avestan meaning "new day/daylight". Noruz is celebrated March 20/21 each year, at the time the sun enters Aries.

Noruz has been celebrated for at least 3,000 years and is deeply rooted in the rituals and traditions of the Zoroastrian religion. Today the festival of Noruz is celebrated in Iran, Iraq, India, Afghanistan, Tajikestan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

To Persian friends and all who celebrate the excitement and anticipation of Springtime with its promise of new beginnings...

~~~ Happy Nowruz Y'all!! ~~~

Please look at the link before you answer!

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_outfitt...

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-- Twin assassinations leave Guinea-Bissau in turmoil

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap_on_re_af/af...

In addition to the political vacuum, there is the drug trade. What are your thoughts?