Its my Right to be Left of the Center

It’s the biggest dogfighting raid in the history of law enforcement. It took place over seven states and netted 26 people that will hopefully one day rot in hell for what they have done. From the San Francisco Examiner:

State and federal agents staged raids in several states, charging individuals in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas following a more-than-year-long investigation originally tipped off by the Humane Society of Missouri.

In Missouri, prosecutors said members of a multistate ring routinely denied the dogs medical treatment and “destroyed” injured dogs who were no longer able to fight by shooting them “in the head, throwing them into the river or burning them in a barrel.”

Although the arrests stem from the same investigation, the rings were not “one concentrated, organized conspiracy.” United States attorneys in four districts will try the cases separately.

Kathy Warnick, president of the Humane Society of Missouri called the raid the “largest coordinated rescue in U.S. history.” “This heinous, heinous bloodsport is not going to be tolerated,” she told the New York Daily News.

The Humane Society of Missouri is sheltering more than 300 dogs - believed to be mostly pit bull terriers - seized in Missouri and Illinois raids. The dogs will be housed, cared for and evaluated at an undisclosed emergency shelter in St. Louis.

I just can not wrap my mind around humans that do this. I just can not. They would kill the losing dogs by shooting them and burning the bodies.

This is so awesome. It is a work of art that I can relate to and enjoy looking at. Please visit Dawn's blog for more photos of her piece that is going up for auction soon. 

Texas Tech has hired Alberto Gonzales. From TPM Muckraker:

The press release, which says Gonzales will work as both a recruiter and teach a junior-level course on "contemporary issues in the executive branch," makes no mention of Gonzo's involvement in the U.S. attorneys scandal (among other things) or his subsequent resignation. Instead, it ends with, "...and later was appointed Attorney General."

Nice.

Specifically, Gonzales will be responsible for "recruiting and retaining first generation and underrepresented students," and will help plan a leadership training program for minority and first generation students at both Texas Tech and Angelo State University. In addition to his class, he'll also guest lecture for other courses.

"His own upbringing in Houston as part of a migrant family with eight children makes him qualified to tell underrepresented Texas students that college is possible," said Kent Hance, chancellor of Texas Tech. "He will help Texas Tech and ASU prepare our students for success and to be future leaders in the State of Texas and beyond."

Oh sweet Jaysus in a speedo. Gonzo will help prepare students for success? LMFAO!

graphic filched from Kvatch.

This story is funny, but then...it's not. Women, who's livelihood is prostitution, which is perfectly legal in Amsterdam, shouldn't be discriminated against. But they are.

Banks refuse credit for anyone in the prostitution industry. They even refuse to allow them to open bank accounts. Prostitution is a legal industry in Amsterdam, its know world-wide.

Giving workers access to banking services and products would legitimize the industry and give workers the ability to better their lives and those of their families. They pay income taxes, yet they are not allowed to use banking services.

This double standard is total bullshit. Prostitution is a legal industry so treat it like one.

From RawStory:

Judiciary Chairman won’t comment on what was asked, said

Former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was deposed by lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee, Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) said in an interview Tuesday.

Rove’s deposition took place over a period of some eight and a half hours, beginning at 10 a.m. and ending around 6:30 p.m, ET — and the lawyers took several breaks, Conyers said.

Conyers wouldn’t say what Rove told investigators or whether Rove would appear before his committee again.

Oh...to have been a fly on that wall today.

From Democracy Now!:

New protests have erupted in China’s western Xinjiang region, two days after at least 156 people were killed and over 1,000 wounded in the country’s worst ethnic violence in decades. On Tuesday, some 200 ethnic Uyghurs–mostly women–took to the streets to protest over the mass arrest of more than 1,400 people following Sunday’s clashes. Later, hundreds of ethnic Han Chinese marched through the streets of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province. The two sides blame each other for the outbreak of violence.

The DN link includes an interview with Nury Turkel, a Uyghur American Attorney. He is the co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and past president of the Uyghur American Association. Here is video of the unrest and a report by Amy Goodman.

This is fuckwitted. Poor Michael...they are draggin' his coffin to the Staples Center. What.A.Fucking.Farce.

This is even better...snort...live coverage online. Yahoo's..thy name is MSM today. View it on my video page. I refuse to give MJ more real estate than he already has.

I commandeered the Ball n' Chain's™ tv yesterday afternoon. I got to watch the usual political talk shows, much to the chagrin of the Bn'C, who hates that shit. I saw Lawrence O'Donnell hosting Hardball..yay!

Vizio wants me to ship my broken set to the warehouse in Chino, CA then they will ship a new (or refurbished) one to moi. We can't drive it down..we must ship it. And this article says only 3% of plasma tv's breakdown. Gee, to be in such small company. Who wants to bet the new one will have problems too? UPS sucks and so does Vizio.

Fuckers...fucking fuckers.

I am watching MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan. He isn't too bad and he has a strange roundtable of guests and talking heads, all waxing poetic about Michael fucking Jackson. I am watching this on my broken tv, so it looks like I am watching tv through a friggin screen door...that wiggles.

This whole day is going to be MJ day isn't it? I want some political news damn it! Give me my fix you fucks.

I go in for a cystoscopy today...oh goodie..this one should be fun right? I will now have had a freaking fucking camera in all my orifices after the day is over. I know, TMI. Suck it up and deal..after all, I have to.

Sweetie, aka FacePlant, refuses to come out from under the bed if any of the other felines are in the room.. unless there is food involved. But he is eating like it's a contest and that's a good thing for the poor lil emaciated fur-less kitteh.

Have a good day folks..and pray for moi and that camera thingy going down this afternoon. Also say a prayer for my tv and the new one that will be shipped to me using gawd knows which delivery service.

The neighborhood was full of fireworks this weekend..including last night. This didn't sit well with the felines of course.

Sweety, aka Faceplant, still won't come out from under the bed after a really huge kablooey last night about 1am.

Today's news will be full of Obama and the Russians today. Really, did he have to take that trip now? Isn't there more pressing biz at home dude?

Sometimes I think he does this shit as a diversion.

People will be second-guessing Mooselini's latest move..to abandon her job as the Gov of Alaska. There is no way to make this look good for her. No friggin way. The bitch is whacked out..and perhaps she is only listening to Todd, because no self-respecting politco is going to tell her to dump her day job..none.

My tv took a shit last week. It was only 10 months old. Vizio is a raggedy ass bunch of fuckwits and I highly recommend that you DO NOT buy any of their products without an extended warranty.

I will go silently crazy this week without tv. Sick ain't it? I admit I am addicted to the boob tube. Lots of music to be played I guess...

Oh yeah..Mac the Knife kicked the bucket this morning. Oh, how I hated that sumbitch. I hope he is in the seventh level of hell..frying. I know..its wrong to speak ill of the dead..but still Robert McNamara was a Dick Cheneysque type of dirtbag. Even if he did come around to seeing things he did as horrific..Karma is karma dude.

There are times when society gives me reason to pause and reflect. This is one of those times.

Who would tell a 17-18 year old female that is about 75-100 lbs overweight that she looked good in a tube top?

Is it just me or is that explosion of flesh coming from beneath the tube top in very poor taste and just downright nasty?

I have always said people should be either comfortable or creative. But the scenario above fits neither of those right?

I am still fighting the bulge myself and vain I am not, but for the love of Christ woman...cover that shit up! Whether that is PC I dunno.

I don't know if this is a fashion fau paux or chica really thinks she is sparkling in that attire, or she flat ass doesn't give a shit. Cuz it takes some real stones to wear that garment with that bodytype...in public.

That's all I got, except Serena Williams did it again at Wimbledon. You go woman! Her 3rd Wimbledon title.

Yes, I did the unthinkable..I changed my template. All the prior comments are gone..zip!

Ah..no big deal right?

Please bear with me as I fix this sucker up..going to move some things to the other pages..so this page will load faster as some folks say it takes fucking forever to load.

Happy Fourth of July!!! Enjoy yourselves but don't drive tanked out of your ever-lovin mind ok? ;)

Well, this is a shocker! Like everything else she says..her decision makes no sense to me. From AP:

"Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional Lame Duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose," Palin said in a statement released by her office.

"It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success," she said.

Her popularity has been going downhill in Alaska for a while now. I hope she runs for President..Lets see how many yahoo's will vote for a woman that can't find her ass w/both hands.

Gather 'round chil'ren and let mama Dusty tell you a story..

The last week has been spent trying to capture a Persian cat that had taken up residence under our RV. I am not a fan of Persians. They are too hairy for me and their little pushed in faces are fugly.

The temperature has hit triple digits every day over the last 5 days. At night, it got down to 80..oh joy. Now, if you put on a big heavy sweater and sat under that RV for 24 hours you might get an understanding of how this feline was suffering.

He was scared and he smelled bad..real bad.

Twice a day, I would crawl under the RV and bring him food and refill his water dish. The day it hit 110, he wouldn't eat. He could barely lift his head. Now I was scared.

I had developed a bit of a bond with him in the preceding days. He would let me touch him whilst he ate. When I talked to him he would come to me, but I couldn't get him to come out from under the damn RV. Even with wonderful treats like chicken breast, he simply would not venture out from under the vehicle.

Monday, when he wouldn't eat I figured I had to do something to get him in the house. My back was killing me and being an old broad, it wasn't easy getting my big carcass under that fucking vehicle. But I did it anyway.

So, Monday around noon, when it was already 107, I decided to snatch him up. I could tell he hadn't drank anything or eaten anything. His meow was so weak it was tugging at my heart strings.

I begged and pleaded with 'Sweety' to come to me. I laid on that hot dirt for over 20 minutes talking to him and inching forward towards him. Finally I got to him and he didn't move a muscle. His eyes were half open. So I grabbed him by the neck. He didn't even offer resistance.

I got him into the house and he ran under the bed. I was now smelly myself, full of sweat and dirt.

It took a couple of days but he warmed up to me and spent more time on top of the bed than under it. I called our trusty vet, Dr. Anderson, and made an appointment for them to put him under and clip him. His coat was so matted down and he weighed virtually nothing. I have a kitten that weighs more than Sweety. You remember Spanky don't you? Of course you do.

So he went to the vets. They called me around 2pm yesterday and told me what they had to do. They had to shave him completely, his coat was that matted. Then Dr. Clark, Dr. Anderson's wife, told me she didn't want me to be shocked when I came to get him. I said I expected them to shave him down to his skin, I knew how matted he was after being neglected for gawd knows how long.

She then told me about the stitches. I gasped..wtf? She explained that his coat was the worst she had ever seen and it was all the way to his skin in most places. It was viturally impossible for them to shave him all the way to his skin without knicking him, but he would heal and his coat would grow back. She also said he was horribly emaciated and needed to eat kitten food.

The only good news was that he was nuetered and between 4 and 5 years old.

The only original fur left on him was his feet and his face. From his ears to his tail he was naked and hairless. Or, almost hairless..check out this mornings picture:

This morning, he purred when I touched him. He snuggled closer to me, purring up a storm. I guess I am the proud owner of a Persian who answers to Sweety.

Unless one of you dear, wonderful readers would like to have him. I will deliver him to you! Come on..you know you want him, right? ;)

Persians are not very active felines and they like nice quiet environs..which our humble abode ain't. All the other felines just walk up and stare at him. He is funny looking with that huge head of fur and that skinny little naked, hairless body.

I love my vet's. They should of charged me $300 bucks for all the work they did, but they only charged me half of that. Dr Anderson and his wife Dr. Clark are good people. I am just glad I had a credit card that could accommodate paying them for their efforts.

Now, which of you wants to adopt this little guy? Remember..free delivery!

Oh, and have a very happy fourth ya'all. ;)

This is friggin outrageous. The Washington Post is fast becoming yellow journalism, plain and simple. From Politico via TruthOut:

Washington Post Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Katharine Weymouth said today she was cancelling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where, for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper's own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its "health care reporting and editorial staff."

Is this what's known as pay to play? It sure sounds like it. How can you separate your newspaper from the lobbyists when you do something like this?

Where in the blue hell is journalistic integrity in this mess? Seems that the communications director wasn't too keen on this bullshit either:

In his e-mail to the newsroom, labeled "Newsroom Independence," Brauchli wrote: "Colleagues, A flyer was distributed this week offering an 'underwriting opportunity' for a dinner on health care reform, in which the news department had been asked to participate. The language in the flyer and the description of the event preclude our participation.

"We will not participate in events where promises are made that in exchange for money The Post will offer access to newsroom personnel or will refrain from confrontational questioning. Our independence from advertisers or sponsors is inviolable. There is a long tradition of news organizations hosting conferences and events, and we believe The Post, including the newsroom, can do these things in ways that are consistent with our values."

WaPo has been going downhill for quite a while now, with the exception of a very small cadre of investigative journalist's..this just seals it for me. Dana Milbank is a tool and so is Katherine Weymouth. Journalist integrity my fucking ass...A free press? Not at the Washington Post evidently.

MSNBC is reporting the MN Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that Al Franken won the election.

The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state's long-running Senate race.

The high court rejected a legal challenge from Republican Norm Coleman, whose options for regaining the Senate seat are dwindling.

Justices said Franken is entitled to the election certificate he needs to assume office. With Franken and the usual backing of two independents, Democrats will have a big enough majority to overcome Republican filibusters.

Next stop for Coleman..living under a bridge or taking it to SCOTUS.

Any bets on which he will pick? ;p