I’ve been bottle feeding a newborn puppy around the clock since Sunday, and the sleep deprivation is finally catching up with me. So, blogging will probably slow down (or become noteworthy for its 3am posting times) until this 5 ounce milk powered day-planner has decided his fate one way or another.
Update: Photos have been requested. Here’s one. “Bottle fed” is an inaccuracy – he drinks formula from the end of a syringe and it’ll be another day or two before he can move to a baby bottle. He’s decidedly improved from his original “emaciated baby bird” condition, but these little guys are so fragile, his odds of survival are still only 50-50. Pnuemonia and colic are the primary risks. But that’s encouraging – on Monday I figured it close to zero.
A few items;
Spinning Sadr – “How about an “After Six Decades, Europe Still Cannot Stand Up” story?”
The silencing of Stephen Bossoin. This is a shocking case that deserves wider attention.
And a gazillion freespeecher related links, as usual, at the excellent Free Mark Steyn!
Add yours in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is an epsiode of The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe radio show, based on Raymond Chandler’s famous character, starring Van Heplin, in Trouble is My Business, on August 5, 1947:
http://www.freeotrshows.com/otr/a/aopm.1947.08.05_Trouble_Is_My_Business.m3u
(Brought to you by Pepsodent, “three times more popular than any other toothpase”, which only goes to show that popular marketing has been full of it for quite some time.)
I should just give you posting privilages and let you do this properly, Vit.
Well, garwsh, Kate, thanks for the offer (digs toe in sand). I will admit that I have thought about it, but as David Letterman explained, on the matter of replacing Johnny Carson, in his Charlie Rose interview, it’s not for me to ask ~ tinyurl.com/377ho5
Still, I don’t think that SDA LNR is that important. There are bigger fish to fry here at SDA. This gig I’ve carved out is just a respite, not a cause. There is a sense in which it is the case that if I had any sort of formal responsibility for the SDA LNR shtick, then it wouldn’t happen. My productive responsibility for bettering the human condition lies elsewhere.
Yet it is also the case that I have replaced the popular media (without ignoring current events) by the exploration of the newly available Internetarchives. And it is also the case that history shows that my axiological judgments are not entirely without appreciation hereabouts.
Thus it may be that, in this case, serendipity is the mother of invention. I don’t think we need SDA LNR articles per se; when my explorations happen to result in a finding that I think may be interesting to the Friends of SDA, I think, at least for now, that Reader Tips is sufficient.
Though, now that you’ve mentioned it, if I change my mind, I’ll
let you know. Unless, of course, that was a one-time offer 😉
Oh dear, I hope the little one makes it! If I was closer, I would take a shift or two. Sleep is overrated Kate, you don’t really need it.
As a matter of fact, your brain will get sharper without sleep, you will get inspired ideas….okay maybe delusions, but enjoy them, because tomorrow you will have forgotten those earth shattering ideas, except for that nagging part of your brain that tell you, you had solved all the problems in the world, if you could only remember what it was.
Keep going, sleep later!
Hunter?
( You know me from Free Dominion… )
So would I– I’m up at weird hours, wrangling a Lab puppy ( Master Cole, Taffy’s successor ) and a very fat, very neurotic older dog ( Zoe’ the old dog we inherited when my MIL entered Hospice care a couple of weeks ago )…
Sleep?
What’s that?
There’s a lively discussion about the Stephen Boissoin case over at Ezra Levant’s site, “Libel chill as a tool of human rights commissions”.
Unless these jackboots of the state are reined in–and, better yet, abolished–we’re all in danger.
British scientists claiming IPCC right and there is no correlation between the sun and “rising” global temperatures. Yet according to global temps they have been declining since 2000. The spin never stops.
“He showed that over the last 20 years, solar activity has been slowly declining, which should have led to a drop in global temperatures if the theory was correct.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7327393.stm
I think I may be forgiven for pointing out that Stephen Bossoin’s plight–the Reverend Stephen Bossoin–makes it quite clear how Christians are regarded in the human rights (sic) realm: right at the bottom, where there are no human rights, only grovelling and pay-through-the-nose privileges.
To say that “official” Canada is officially anti-Christian is no hyperbole, and unless your group wants to be next, it might not be a bad idea to voice your objections to your MP. First they came for the Christians, then…..
I want pictures of the puppy!
Dave:
It was also in the telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/04/03/scisolar103.xml
and can be found here:
http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1748-9326/3/2/024001/erl8_2_024001.pdf?request-id=7a5386f2-dcf4-42ea-8314-bff949ac6933
However, quotes from the scientist involved makes me wonder the Bias-free condition of the research
“If he is right, then we are going down the wrong path of taking all these expensive measures to cut carbon emissions; if he is right, we could carry on with carbon emissions as normal.”
The author paraphrases the “skeptic arguement” very incorrectly by implying that we can just continue polluting as normal. As I recall, this is NOT what the original “skeptic” said.
Further:
From the paper itself: “There have been previous reports of observations of correlations between cloud cover and Forbush decreases [11, 24]. These seem to be incompatible with our observations although the statistical precision of the data is not powerful.”
Which is not clear to me at all what they are saying. Also, the language of the paper in the conclusion indicates some waffling to me.
So, in the end, it is the media which will make a bigger story and pronounce a final verdict, which the paper itself seemed to avoid saying.
The Global Warming/Climate Change hysteria has morphed into a huge money making industry. It’s big pushers have become wealthy and won awards for simply spreading a scam they can’t really prove or debate. Has anyone heard fat cat Al Gore debate?
Surely people have twigged something is amiss when they’ve changed their shtick midstream. When the warming thing wasn’t happening they latched onto Climate Change to cover their asses.
The only common sense is coming from the CPC. We can all agree to cleaning up pollution and working on more technology to do so. Shutting down our economy to pay China and others to pollute is beyond reason. Of course, we have to allow for the lack of reason among the cloud dwellers of the Left where all this hysteria originated.
If Mo Strong is still healthy after spending so much time in China maybe we have proof pollution is good for us!
Overpopulation is causing mankind to destroy the ecosphere. Climate change will kill millions.
Problem. Solution. What’s all the fuss about?
Citoyen Dion dit, That’s not fair.
…-
“La liste
1) Gabriel Arsenault : étudiant dans la vingtaine qui se présentera dans Chambly-Borduas.
2) Nathalie Arsenault : elle n’a pas confirmé sa nomination à La Presse.
3) Gilbert Barrette : cet ancien député de Témiscamingue ne s’était pas présenté aux élections de 2006.
4) Jean Beaupré : avocat et ancien président du Carnaval de Québec, il tentera de déloger les conservateurs de Louis-Hébert.
5) Diane Bernier Hood : elle n’a pas confirmé sa nomination à La Presse.
6) Renate Betts : elle n’a pas confirmé sa nomination à La Presse.
7) Jean Bouchard : ce courtier portera les couleurs du PLC dans Montmagny–L’Islet–Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup”
More:
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080403/CPACTUALITES/80403011/1019/CPACTUALITES
Kate: a few days ago you posted a poll showing only 1% of Americans – and presumably a similar %age of Canadians – think that the environment is a big issue.
apparently Stephan Dion and co. don’t read polls:
“Next election will be about environment, Dion says ” – http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/National/2008/04/03/5179646-sun.html
h/t National newswatch
14) Cindy Duncan McMillan : agricultrice et militante libérale de longue date qui tentera de défaire le ministre Lawrence Cannon dans Pontiac.
The 3 kids involved in the triple murder-shootings in Winnipeg this w/e have longs ‘records’.
They proved that they are more of a threat to society than Phil Whatcott,Steve Boisson, and Scott Brokie.
When-will-common-sense-return-to-our-system?
Liberals are red faced today…no kidding!!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080403.INJUNCTION03/TPStory/National
I don’t go to G&M very often…but I thought they allowed comments most of the time…
not on this story?
Protecting Dion from being the butt of jokes I guess…
David Ahenakew, well what can be said of this Indian RACIST. Lawrence Joseph said David is on the brink of going Bankrupt and he needs to be allowed to earn a living. For such a smart man Mr. Ahenekew it appears may not have saved much money over the years. This coming from a man who probably has paid no INCOME TAX on hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’m laughing at this. Mr. Ahenakew is like a LIBERAL, ENTITLED to his ENTITLEMENTS. Mr. Ahenakew is only now seeing what it is to be like thousands of his brothers and sisters living on the RESERVE, BROKE. At the next reserve bingo lets pass around a plate and take up a collection for poor David A. The people living on reserve can dig deep into their WELFARE money and show their thanks to David for a lifetime of dedication to the INDIAN cause. Yes indeed, we are all poor on the reserve struggling to make ends meet while David A has investments in the city, property, an expensive car to drive, and looking at his waist line he is not going hungry. Poor David A.
Citoyen Dion say, Merde. Cindy is a bonhomme.
“It didn’t work for Gerard, and it won’t work for Cindy.”
“14)Cindy Duncan McMillan : agricultrice et militante libérale de longue date qui tentera de défaire le ministre Lawrence Cannon dans Pontiac.”
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Liberal Party of Canada Nominates Québec Candidate Who Cannot Speak French
“In the coming months, Stéphane Dion will have a lot of explaining to do to the half of the residents of the Québec riding of Pontiac whose first language is French. This afternoon, his party nominated a candidate who, in her nomination speech, gave one sentence in her province’s official tongue— and, in mere seconds, managed to make Gerard Kennedy sound like Dominique de Villepin.”
“To make things worse, today’s nomination was scheduled by LPCQ in a disgraceful, Martinite fashion. There was one poll in the expansive rural riding and it was located in McMillan’s overwhelmingly anglophone hometown of Farrellton. Actually, the poll was her church. And voting took place directly after mass. And the returning officer of the province had the right to close down voting at will.”
“McMillan said she thought her French was “good.” This is exactly the same thing we got from the Kennedy campaign, where staffers would tell French media his language skills were ‘okay’ and that he was ‘working on it’, only to turn around and advertise him as fluently bilingual in the English language papers.
It didn’t work for Gerard, and it won’t work for Cindy.”
http://villedesanges.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/liberal-party-of-canada-nominates-quebec-candidate-who-cannot-speak-french/
Good Luck with the pup Kate!!
Wishing best of health for your ‘wee’ one.All your efforts will be worth it I’m sure.We will manage Kate,while you care for the little one,and hopefuly grab 40 winks.As ‘Mom’ to 3 four-footed kids,I know how much these little ones mean.My life would be pretty empty without my ‘lads’ as kids grown and far away.I must say,a Newfoundland (full grown) makes a lovely lap-dog!
As the world turns……….
China Rats Out Iran to UN Investigators
For the bandwidth challeged….
From the Telegraph.co.uk
“China has betrayed one its closest allies by providing the United Nations with intelligence on Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear technology, diplomats have revealed.
Concern over Tehran’s secretive research programme has increased in recent weeks after officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, discovered that Iran had obtained information on how to manufacture nuclear-armed weapons. ”
So let’s see now … Bush Lied….
What a sweet little guy. Sure hope he pulls through.
Min of Indian Affairs Chuck Strahl should get a medal for standing up against the reinstatement of
David Ahenakew,IMMO, Ahenakew is a blackheart, a whitey hater. It has been too long that any in our Federal government had any balls regarding First Nations BS. Now if he would all use this new found power to help the people of Caledonia. BC is next in line for problems with First Nations. They have a patch work plan across BC, to keep adding to the reserves. (From the meeting of BC union chiefs FN)The Olympics will prove to very interesting times in this province. I wonder what it will cost BC?
Best wishes to Kate and the puppy.
Daniel Pipes, A movie and a conversion: Europe begins to resist?
Some analysts of Islam in Western Europe argue that the continent cannot escape its Eurabian fate; that the trend lines of the past half-century will continue until Muslims become a majority population and Islamic law (the Shari’a) reigns.
I disagree, arguing that there is another route the continent might take, one of resistance to Islamification and a reassertion of traditional ways.
Indigenous Europeans – who make up 95 percent of the population – can insist on their historic customs and mores. Were they to do so, nothing would be in their way and no one could stop them…
Eliphas Mukonoweshuro*, A New Zimbabwe
Despite President Robert Mugabe’s diversions and smokescreens, his defeat is final. Polling stations show that Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change won Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Should the dictator and his minions attempt to deny this truth, injustice may win a minor victory. But it has already lost the war.
So let us take a moment to consider what the new government’s agenda would be when and if it takes office…
*International affairs secretary, Movement for Democratic Change
Frederick W. Kagan, Iraq’s Benchmarks
As the reduction in violence in Iraq has become incontestable (the insistence of early critics that no such reduction was possible notwithstanding), war opponents have fallen back on their next line of defense–that the military progress has not been matched by the political progress it was supposed to enable. This talking point, however, is also outdated and invalid…
As the tally below shows, the Government of Iraq has now met 12 out of the original 18 benchmarks set for it, including four out of the six key legislative benchmarks. It has made substantial progress on five more, and only one remains truly stalled…
Description of the fleeing vehicle ma’am, did you say votive candles for headlights?
Pedal-powered Buick creator heads to court
Probably one of the most insulting ads ever produced. If you have shares in the company that owns Absolute Vodka, a word to the wise – sell.
http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1830-Absolut-ly-Insulting.html
And I thought he was simply running for President of the US. Not its Messiah:
“a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany … and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama”
Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire. January 7, 2008.
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
The transfiguration is now complete.
Michelle Bussenius, Reshaping Attitudes: Mass Media Changes Along with the News
While print media becomes less utilized, alternate/new media outlets are gaining wider audiences. Coverage of the 2008 presidential primaries illustrates this shift; more people than ever are relying on nontraditional forms of media for news and information about the race and the candidates. A recent nationwide study found that 26 percent of Americans receive information about the 2008 presidential campaign via the Internet on a regular basis, nearly twice that of the previous (2004) election…
Thomas Sowell, a Hoover senior fellow, agrees that many journalists are guilty of “filtering and spinning the news” according their own political agendas or that of the candidates they support. Such bias, according to Sowell, hurts the public that depends on “journalists to tell them the truth as they see it and to offer their honest opinion as to what it means.”
Hoover senior fellow Morris Fiorina points out that bias in the media is to be expected because the experiences of journalists are limited to surroundings that are not representative of mainstream America. Thus, according to Fiorina, those providing the information cannot help but offer skewed observations…
When I was a kid, any pup that couldn’t survive the natural wasy was placed in a gunny sack along with a rock and taken to the river. All you’re doing is introducing weak genes into the breed. Perhaps that would explain why the last German Shepherd I bought couldn’t tell his ass from a gopher hole.
When I was a kid, any pup that couldn’t survive the natural wasy was placed in a gunny sack along with a rock and taken to the river. All you’re doing is introducing weak genes into the breed. Perhaps that would explain why the last German Shepherd I bought couldn’t tell his ass from a gopher hole.
What a mixup:
“Woman Asks to Have Wrinkles Removed, Wakes Up With Bigger Breasts”
A German woman who wanted to smooth some wrinkles on her chest was aghast when she woke up with bigger breasts instead, the New York Post reports.
Ingrid Bruelling, 33, wanted doctors to give her breasts firmer skin after she lost 200 pounds on a crash diet.
But when she woke up after the operation, she found that doctors had put in silicone implants, increasing her cup size from a C to a D.
The Web site Ananova.com reports that Bruelling is suing doctors over the procedure.
(Fox News)
‘States Hit Hard by Economic Downturn’
Good article on USA ‘recession’ at
blah blah.washingtonpost.com/up-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08.
“…..(California) Gov Schwarzenegger (R) has proposed a $4.8 billion cut in education services. About 20,000 teachers, counselors, librarians, nurse and other support staff members have received notice of potential layoffs, according to the state’s Education Department.”
Thank you for the lesson in “genetics”, Tex.
Tell me – is your multiple personality disorder inherited?
Just a little more proof, from south of the border, that Liberals cannot seem to resist the “pre-pay”, or the “Pay-as-you-go[come]-plan”.
Here is the “pro’s” picture:
http://bigheaddc.com/2008/04/02/stabenow-hubby-cheated-with-alycia-lorraine-martin/
Here is the story about which Senator’s husband was the john this time:
http://bigheaddc.com/2008/04/02/sen-stabenows-hubby-caught-in-hooker-sting/
Cute quote from the grandfather of a poster under one of Capt. Ed’s stories at Hot Air:
“The Democrats have a heck of a choice this primary season: a NUT with two boob’s, or a BOOB with two nuts.”
Re: My personality change. I changed my name because your site claimed that I had entered too often. I’ve been here twice in the last week!! Maybe once in the last six months before that!!
Re: Nursing wounded or sick animals. Kate, I’m serious, I swear on my mother’s grave!! I know it’s tough to get rid of a young animal. However, many wildlife and other animal experts have long abandoned the idea of feeding orphans and/or nursing wounded or sick animals back to life.
How do you account for good dogs such as German Shepherds, Border Collies, etc.? Years and years of selective breeding. Surviving tough times makes for better dogs. I’ll send you some interesting material later!
Why does a Bison have her calf on a cold minus 30 degree day, and a minute later, the calf is running around in the snow? On the other hand, why do so many Charolais have difficulty in calving?? Think for a moment! Nobody ever assisted Bison with their calves’ births. Only the strong survived! It’s called natural selection.
Texas Ranger/Reality, must be all that bully beef y’all consume turning your head to meat that makes y’all such tough guys.
Tex, that’s because you hit the post button twice in succession. Has nothing to do with your chosen nickname.
And I understand the general point you’re making and agree with it. But this isn’t a tiny puppy because he’s a runt. Another in the litter died in utero, his dam required a c-section to deliver the calcified corpse, and then developed an infection that passed along in her milk. He spent the first three days of life starving to death. (He’s not my puppy, I’m doing this for a friend who lacks the experience required.) His condition is a result of misfortune, not genetics.
But as far as the lecture on selective breeding, here’s my resume:
http://www.katewerk.com/minuteman.html
Just another point, though – Bison produce hardier offspring than Holsteins, too, but try getting 6 of them into a milking parlor.
Breeds are created for domestic purposes that must be weighed against other factors. A Bison only needs to eat and crap to be successful at life. A Charolais is expected to deliver a little bit more than that – meat quality, tractability, etc.
Hmmmm, had a Rott who had 9 puppies and only 8 tits would produce, so that bitch culled the smallest female. She would carry her butt out in the woods and dump her I would find her and place her back. This went on for 4 days before I realized the last two tits weren’t working. I took the puppy in the house and just like Kate is doing now nursed the lil turd back to damn-near normal size. Ratturd is 14 years old now and can still get up the attic stairs faster than me.
Being a Conservative invloves more than knocking lil babies/puppies in the head just because they are small.
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Sask ndp member on cbc doing big exposure on Cons.MP Tom Lukowski
Sask dipper Pat Atkinson has ‘explosive’ controversial videotape..says has ‘sexist,violent,hateful’ comments made by Tom L. Says ‘he said some ‘mean things’ wants Prem.Wall to ‘explain’…she won’t repeat the comments.
Tape apparently made in 1991,includes Brad Wall..making homophobic,racist comments.NDP ‘found’ said tape when they got turfed into opposition offices.
From the Jerusalem Post:
Abraham Katsman, Obama is no moderate: His radical position on ‘abortion’ after birth
Obama’s position essentially boils down to this: a woman who contracts for an abortion is entitled, one way or another, to a dead baby. A dead baby must result, even if that baby had already been a distinct living being. The killing of some live babies is just part of the price we must pay in order to keep the sacred right to an abortion supreme and absolute, beyond any shadow of a doubt.
What kind of principle is this? What core value is Obama expressing? What extremist doctrine or interest is he defending? And how doctrinaire must one be to defend actual infanticide? This goes well beyond any reasonable advocacy of a woman’s “right to choose;” it attacks a living baby’s right to life. His position is not simply “pro-choice;” it is radically anti-life. It is, in fact, pro-death…
Re: The picutre: The little pup’s in good hands, that’s for damn sure. He’s got that going for him.
I can also see your lifetime of hard manual labor evident in the musculature of your left grasper. Got a beefy paw myself- when I make a fist, my arm, from elbow to knuckles, resembles a bowling pin with a sledgehammer head attached to the top…
A 17 year old video has surfaced, and is mentioned by a MP who is in a same sex relationship, where a rude description of certain people are mentioned. You can’t use todays standards against standards of 17 years ago.
What is said on the video could be considered rude, but 17 years ago most people believed gays spread aids. That is a fact.
Yet another smear campaign against the Conservatives? Is that all an opposition can do? No policies, no arguments over issues. Just move into the emotional and the personal ad hominem?
What is ‘homophobic’ to one is only a statement of opinion to another. Free speech, anyone?
Oh, speaking of attempts to control the world, apparently Zimbabwe police in riot gear are descending on a hotel where the journalists are staying. I wonder, is Mugabe preparing to insist on his being President Forever, despite the polls, and doesn’t want the assumed riots to be reported?
I can relate to Tex, my sister helped out on the USA project that re-introduced bald eagles into the wild. (1980’s.) Many of the eagles that had been hand fed could hardly fly–they were overweight. Most couldn’t hunt on their own. But then eagles are wild.
What Tex is saying is that everytime you “hand save” such an an animal as a dog, cat etc. you weaken the breed and species. I can understand Kate’s attachment to the pup. But she on the other hand should repect Tex’s “country boy” way of thinkin’