This is the quick and dirty post - just copied and pasted directly from what my daughter (creator of the awesome fashion shows to benefit animals organization, FABShows.org and @AnimalRescueGal on Twitter) just emailed me. It's heartbreaking but maybe - just maybe - our collective positive thoughts can make a difference. Please read on.
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This is the quick and dirty post - just copied and pasted directly from what my daughter (creator of the awesome fashion shows to benefit animals organization, FABShows.org and @AnimalRescueGal on Twitter) just emailed me. It's heartbreaking but maybe - just maybe - our collective positive thoughts can make a difference. Please read on. Here are the details on the young Boy Scout here in Colorado who desperately needs O Negative blood. He is in one of our local Boy Scout councils, and that's how I got involved in trying to help find donors for him. Last night I shared something with my husband which, as I was saying it, I realized that few men actually know. It's another one of those woman-secrets which, being the mens' rights advocate that I am, I delight in sharing with "the enemy". A couple of days ago I wrote an open letter to Mother Earth News, complaining about the cigarette advertising in their magazine - a magazine I had previously considered a model of leadership for "good living". To their credit, at least they gave me a response, even if it wasn't the one that I'd wanted. Dear Mother Earth News: I was shocked - and very *very* disappointed - to open this month's issue and find a full page advertisement for cigarettes, of all things! I'm referring to the ad for "Natural American Spirit" cigarettes that appeared near the back of the August/September 2008 issue. I found myself saying this to a friend today - I always say "do what you love, and love what you do", but today what flowed from me somehow seemed more profound, and I felt that I should put pixel to screen, to make sure that I had it down somewhere, so here it is. I went to the library today - it was the first time that I'd been there in a few months, and when I walked in, I was immediately struck by the smell. I was out with two colleagues last evening, turning what had been a pitiful excuse for an executive networking event into a very productive Internet and affiliate marketing business meeting. We were sitting in the outdoor dining area of 1010 in Boulder, on Walnut (it was quieter outside than in, so we could talk), when I realized I smelled....a lit fireplace? No... You know..I can't even write about this, as it's so preposterous - so disgusting - yet so...sadly..true. So here is the link to the story about an Oklahoma church that is sponsoring a contest where one lucky teen gets an AR-15. But of course comments welcome back here. In news of the disgusting, the FDA today decided not to put a warning on 11 epilepsy drugs known to increase suicidal thoughts and tendancies by at least 80%!!! (Some reports put the increase at 100%.) A new report confirms that the natural food supplement Red Yeast Rice (sometimes erroneously called "Red Rice Yeast") lowers cholesterol because it contains lovastatin, which is one of the naturally occuring statins that is also used in manufactured statin drugs used to lower cholesterol. Red Yeast Rice is available over the counter, and you can also buy it online, but be sure to avoid certain brands - here's why. Here are my thoughts on patriotism - in a time when people think that "being patriotic" equals rabid war-mongering, or blindly following elected officials based on their idealogy. Patriotism != any of those things. Got what seems like a chronic bladder infection (also known as a urinary tract infection, or "UTI" for short)? Are you a woman of, er, a certain age? Because if you are near, in, or post menopause, and experience frequent urinary tract infections - as in "I can't believe I get a UTI every time I have sex" - it turns out that one of the top frequent urinary tract infection causes in women over a certain age is, well, having frequent sex! But there are ways to avoid it (while not avoiding sex)! Maybe I'm the only one - but I'll bet that I'm not - did you know that there was once a plan to do something called "nuclear excavation" - or "nuclear earthmoving", i.e. using nuclear explosions to move massive amounts of earth for excavation projects? This Valentine's Day, give a true gift of the heart by giving the gift of life - help fund heart surgery for a child. Even $5.00 will help, and you can even donate through Paypal - it doesn't get much easier than that! In 2002 I ordered a tagine from a vendor, online. I had made a point of communicating with the vendor first, to make sure that the tagine was lead-free. They assured me that not only was it lead-free, but that it was the same tagine that they supplied to restaurants all across the country. After cooking with it twice, and serving the food to both guests and my own family (including our young son), I decided to test it, and guess what? It had lead in it. Here's our story. This Valentine’s Day, give a true gift of the heart by giving the gift of life - help fund heart surgery for a child. Even $5.00 will help, and you can even donate through Paypal - it doesn’t get much easier than that! This is true because it happened to our son. If anybody else has had this happen we'd like to know. In May of 2007 our son had a package of Lik-M-Aid (also known as Fun Dip) by Wonka. We never let him have this kind of junk, but he had gone to a store with a friend and returned with it. Within a couple of hours his entire mouth was ringed by an acid burn. That was in May ...seven months ago, and despite numerous dermotologist appointments, and two topical prescriptions later, it still hasn't gone away. It will seem to start getting better for a few days, then come right back. What is waterboarding? (See the waterboarding video with Kaj Larsen.) Originally a form of medieval torture, known to be used by the Spanish Inquisition, and still in practice today, it is a form of water torture. To waterboard someone is to shackle them on the floor, face up, stuff something into their mouth (usually cloth) and then pour water over their face which simulates drowning. In fact, someone who is waterboarded believes that death is imminent, and it is a very effective way to force someone to give up information - genuine or not due to the coercion. How could it not be considered torture? An interesting aspect of what is going on over in Pakistan right now is that since Musharraf shuttered the Pakistan Supreme Court, and put some of the justices on house arrest - mere days before the justices were to render a decision as to whether Musharraf's presidency was legal - is the protests which have been going on. Honest to God, I would have sworn that this was a headline straight from the Onion, that venerable bastion of parodic news, but no! It's true! China has passed a law regulating reincarnation! Teachers in a Tennessee elementary school staged a fake gunman attack while on a field trip, telling the sixth-grade school children that it was "not a drill", while the children cowered crying under tables, believing that they were about to be shot to death. It's an idea I've been noodling around on for months..and I finally did it! I am so very excited and pleased to announce... The Site for the Cure! The lawsuit filed against MySpace and Pete Solis by a 14 year old, for a date gone wrong, has been dismissed by a Federal judge. Thank goodness someone involved in this case is right-thinking and has a clue! Too bad Solis will still go down for statutory rape if the state decides to press charges. Rachel and I have been friends since elementary school. She was that shrimpy, adorable, button blue eyes and ringlets girl who was so cute you just wanted to squeeze her, and she was nice, to boot. Now Rachel is all growed up into a scrappy, adorable woman who is still so cute that you want to squeeze her, but with whom you know better than to mess. And, oh yes, Rachel is a cancer survivor. Are you one of those people who talks with your hands? How about one of those people who, while on the phone, holds the phone with one hand while talking with the other? On election day, I got a CNN news flash email. With it being election day and all (and late afternoon) I figured that it was probably some early return election upset or something.. something really potentially important enough to warrant a news flash... So I opened the email and it was the news that... According to CNN, the suspect in the Jon Benet Ramsey murder case who was arrested ealier today in Thailand has confessed. Now the big question on everybody's lips is: "Who is it?" After all this time, and with mom dying, I never expected to hear about the Jon Benet Ramsey case again. And I certainly never expected to hear that they had arrested a suspect! I compiled the “Be the Change� montage after happening to hear a version of I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (done by the Veggie Tales, of all things). The Ohio Supreme Court just handed down its decision in the twin eminent domain cases of City of Norwood v. Horney and City of Norwood v. Gamble. And I'm very proud to say that my friend Dr. David Dahlman was one of the parties who refused to give over his family home without a fight. This is a rant which has been a long time in coming. That's because I see it nearly every day. You see, I subscribe to the Operation Amber mailing list, and so I see each and every one of the Amber Alerts which ... This just in: the jury in the Scott Peterson double murder trial has found Peterson guilty of both the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child. What a sad, sad situation, no matter how you look at it. What is interesting ... Many of you will remember that I recently reviewed and sang high praises for Guy Kawasaki's new book, "The Art of the Start". (If you don't remember, or haven't read it, see here.) Now you can help to get this awesome and most ... This is a post I have been meaning to post for a few months, ever since I had the great honour of presiding at the wedding of my daughter's best friend, whom I consider to be something of an "adopted" daughter. My daughter's friend ... We've always known that dogs possess a super sense of smell, and that they are very protective of their owners. Now here's an interesting twist: researchers at Imperial College (my husband's alma mater, by the way) have determined that dogs can sense cancer ... Having lost more than a few hours of work, on more than a few occasions, due to some catastrophic system failure in the middle of a drafting session during which I had failed to regularly back up the work, I've learned my lesson ... I'm not dead yet, as they say. Even though my primary practice is no longer focused on fathers' rights, I still provide referrals, pointers, and information. Perhaps even more importantly, I still teach, and while I now teach spam law, up ... Will Bontrager (http://www.willmaster.com) is someone whom I respect a great deal, for a number of reasons. So when Will mentioned to me the plight of the Pine Ridge Reservation Lakota people (for those not familiar with this South Dakota reservation, the reservation boundaries and ... |
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