February 2003
2003.02.08
Animal Hoarding
11:04 PM PST :: comments: 0When we were at the Humane Society, we saw a number of dogs that were labeled "Malheur" dogs. Some signs indicated that there were 500 of them. What did that mean? I came home and did some digging. Turns out that some Dog Hoarders had Hoarded over 500 dogs in a retal property in Malheur County, Oregon. The Oregon Humane Soceitey had rescued 77 of these dogs. We saw a handful of them today.
Ugh. This anmial hoarding thing just makes me sick.
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Empty Handed
05:59 PM PST :: comments: 0All of the dogs that we wanted were on hold already. Maybe we'll get lucky in a few days.
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Thinking about getting a dog...
11:49 AM PST :: comments: 0and we're off to the Humane Society.
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2003.02.07
Why does Homeland Security make me feel less and less Secure about being in my Homeland?
12:46 AM PST :: comments: 0The N. C. Congressman who is the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, thinks that Roosevelt did the right thing by putting Japanese-Americans into "internment camps" during WWII. The most mindbending part is where he insists that the Japanese-Americans were put into the camps for their own safety and well being.
This is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security. Don't be surprised if "internment camps" for Arab-Americans show up real soon. Why is it that almost everything done in the name of "Homeland Security" leaves me feeling less secure?
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News Flash: Microsoft is still a jerk!
12:32 AM PST :: comments: 8Microsoft continues to really piss me off. They are now deliberately feeding a broken style sheet to Opera users when they visit msn.com. The idea behind this, of course, is to convince people who don't realize what's going on that Opera renders things badly, and thus that IE is the better choice.
This is not the first time that they've pulled this kind of stunt.
Its not that I have any burning desire to actually visit msn.com, but this kind of behavior just makes me seethe. Their 90% share of the browser market isn't enough, so they use deceptive tactics to try and trick people into thinking that their competitor's products are broken? Whatever happened to their policy of competing on the merits of their software? Oh wait...that was never their policy. My bad.
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Second opinion
12:13 AM PST :: comments: 0Or maybe the fortune means that I'll be running a lottery soon. Then I really would gain a lot of money.
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Unlikely Fortune
12:10 AM PST :: comments: 0I just ate a fortune cookie. The fortune read "You will gain money by a lottery". Unless the lottery changes its policy of "You can't win if you don't play", this seems unlikely.
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