Why I am not in church today

I can’t believe the odasoity of some people! After what Jim Thomas did to us, they have the nerve to ask us to go back to church! Jim Thomas for those who haven’t been reading my blog very long, is the Old Orchartd Beach town manager who forced us out of our home and off our land. Land that had been in our family over 300 years! Land that was settled by the original found of the Town and my several greats grandfather Thomas Rogers! Jim Thomas and Ken Shoop those greedy, high poluting, money grubing land monger bastards took everything away from us and forced us to live homeless on the streets until hud finally got us into an apartment!

We had to live on the streets in a tent for 8 months! And it wasn’t even a tent, it was a trap and so cinder block. And it was during Maines sub-zero winter of 2006 when the temp went down to -15 below zero. My fingers froze and are now stiff as a result, and I can draw any more, and it’s hell for me to pick up a pen a write now. Me and artist and writer, not only did he steel our home, he lost me my career!

People at church know about this, and yet they have the odassity to actually ask me to come back to church! Come back to church! Why, so I can sit there next to Jim Thomas? So I can meet up with him the hall? Or his croony secritary and her husband, whov’e been hounding the hell out on us? I’d have to sit for 3 hours with those thieving bastards! They stole or house. And why? What was there reason? In the words of Ken Shoop:” Because this is Old Orchard!”… huh? what? What the hell kind of a reason is that???

They tried to take our animals! My babies! My cats and dog and birds! We had fight like hell to keep them. The members of that church put us through hell and back and they expect us to want to go to church????? They did that to us and they really don’t know why I stopped going to church????

“Do you want to go to church?” oh yes, of course I’m just dieing to go back to the church that help steel our home from us. The church that seperated me from my family, and my animals, and destroied my book collection, and stole my grandmothers stamp collection, smashed my records, puverized my grandmother clock, they seperated me from my brothers and my animals and they can actually think I want anything to do with going back to church!!!!!!! …. oh yes, I’m just dieing to go back to that church! What the hell are they thinking? “but They’ve changed, they backed off”…. yeah, right, they backed off after they tforced us out on the streets and ruined my hands so I can’t draw and write anymore. They cbacked off after they got our land. Of course they backed offf. What need is there for the 2 years of harassment and vandalisim anymore now that the have the land? Answer me that one! The only way I want to go back to that church is if Jim Thomas, gets up in front of the ward and apologiges in front of his peers and prints up a public apology in at least 5 big newspapers and returns our land to us. Than and only than well I want to go back to that church, and even than I’m not sure I’ll want to go back.

All I have is this to say:

Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian anymore than sitting in a garage on Saterday makes you a car!

It is what you say, that makes you a Christian.
It is what you do, that makes you a Christian.
It is how you treat others, that makes you a Christian.
It is what is in your heart, that makes you a Christian.
It is love for one another, that makes you a Christian.

It is who you are,
not where you are,
that makes you what you are!

Bear Attacks in Old Orchard Beach, Maine

You know, it was about 5 years ago when I first told Old Orchard Beach police that there was a bear in our yard, but because I didn’t have pictures, they just laughed and said there was no bear in Old Orchard Beach. Yes, tell that to the bear that routinely makes her weekly visits to our brook for a drink. Or tell that to the “bear tree” that marks her territory some 100 feet behind The GoldenEagle. Tell that to my terrified hens, who refuse to lay eggs after the bear has been by. But, who am I too know a bear, I only grew up in the Ross Forest, on land settled by Thomas Rogers (my ancestor and founder of this town) , making friends with every wild animal out there: from the bobcats to the coyotes, both of which btw the way the police also told me did not live in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Uhm-huh. I believe you, I’ll just go on seeing these animals in my yard and keeping my pets under lock and key, and I’m NOT cutting a hole in my wall to allow the cats to roam free in bear, coyote, and bobcat country no matter how bitchy they get.

But why am I telling you this. Well, for those of you in Maine, you already know, but for those of you not in Maine, well us Maine folks awoke this morning to the news reports announcing: BEAR ATTACKS IN OLD ORCHARD BEACH! My question is what’s with all the exclamation points? So those bear that no one believes visit my back yard every week are now attacking the neighbors? So what. Took five years and an attack on humans before the police would believe me? Oh yeah, they believe me now…. they’re out there hauling around big bear traps behind the police van. My question: why didn’t you do that five years ago, before you got yourself a whole herd of bears. Five years ago, you only had a pair of bears out there, now; there have been about 2 cubs each year since. There isn’t just one bear in Old Orchard Beach anymore, there’s about 10 bear, at least there are about 10 bear that I know of, who knows how many I haven’t seen yet.

Why are the bear attacking? Why now? Do you really have to ask? King Realty just cut down some 50 acres of forest on the Ross Rd. Not one, but three new sub-divisions just started up on Portland Ave. We’re talking close to 200 acres of Ross Forest that no longer exists. What would you do if a bunch of big yellow rigs came in and decimated your home? Wouldn’t you attack the people who did it? I know I would. Why did those idiots think it’s unusual that the bear are “out to get them”? They cut down the forest, they build a house on the bear’s home, and than they wonder why a bear is sitting on their front porch? How stupid can you get?

I saw, take down the bear traps, and let the bear stay. To the people moving in: You’ve seen Maine, leave us in peace and go home. Keep Maine green: shoot a developer.

Lots of love to the bears, and lots of hate to the Town officials of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, from Wendy C. Allen; here’s to hoping the next attack the bears make is on the town hall.

Harassment Continues and Grows Worse by the day…

Oh, man! It’s been like a week since I was last here, sorry guys, but real life has kept me offline for a bit, the harasment has increseased at an alarming rate, as has the daily bouts of vandalism we have to content with. It’s down right sickening coming home to this every day. As usual we came home tonight to find pack-boxes now unpacked and strewn all over the yard. Once again, the vandls tore stuff out of the tent and just threw it. Stuff, like usual is broken. More items have been stolen.  This time, not only did they tear the lock off the front door, but they tore the front door off the house. They tore the door off the outhouse as well. I think today’s round of vandalism has to rank at the most destructive yet.

We still do not know who is behind this. All we do know for certain is that it is obviously someone who knows when we are and are not home and that the police well do nothing for fear of loseing there jobs as a result of threats from the town manager.

We are not gone from home on a regular schedul… one day we well leave at 7AM and get home at  noon, another day we will leave at 4PM and get home at 5PM… other times we leave at 9PM and get home around midnight… there is no set pattern, no work schedule, every day is differant, sometimes we leave in the monring, sometimes noon, sometimes  night… some times we gone 20 mins, sometimes we are gone for hours… who ever it is that is doing this vandalism, they live in seeing distanct from our comings and goings otherwise they would not know the exact time we are gone each day, and we only have 3 neighbors in seeing distance. One a peacful eldery man who I could not see doing anything like this… the others… related and one of them on the  town counsel, and works closely with the Town Manager… uh-huh! alarm bells are ringing on that one! but, as I said we have no  proof as to who is doing this, so we do not know who to sue for the damages.

~~EK

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Update on The Lockdown & More Harassment & Vandelism

We spent the last 2 days calling everyone under the sun, trying to find out what the hell is going on, but we can’t get through to anyone; they are just giving us the run around again, putting us on hold, directing our calls to someone else who in turn directs them to someone else, who has no idea why we were directed to them and hangs up with a “Sorry”.

Well, since no one well tell us what’s going on, we just went ahead and broke down the barricade. Well wonders never cease? Now that we’ve gotting back in to see the damage, I can honesty say I hope these jackasses die a long slow death. The bastards stole my grandmother’s stamp collection. They tore the pages out of a second stamp book, keeping the pages that had stamps on them. They also stole the comb my dad’s uncle brought back from PNG when he was one of the soliders who was there and discovered that people lived their back in 1937. They also stole the photos of the uncle. They smashed my other grandmother’s gold and glass anniversay clock that she brought to America with her from Germany. To top it all off the bastards took my records and it looks like they used them for frisbies, they are strewn from one end of the house to the other, several of them broken.

We still don’t know who is behind this, but who ever they are I hope they die soon, so that they well have a longer time to burn in hell.

~~EK

Update: The Stolen House of Maine

Interesting thing happened today. We got home about 2 hours earlier than usual. We may now have a suspect in for who has been moveing stuff around the yard and opening the hen gate these last couple of weeks.

For those of you who remember the “Stolen House of Maine”  Our house, the one that so long ago was the start of the years of harassment that our family has had to withstand. It all started in 2001 with a house. Our house, the one that made front page news the day we came home to find an empty lot: our house as my long time readers already know, was cut in half and than moved 50 miles away where it was sold to a man who in turn sold it to something else. This resulted in a grueling 3 year court battle between us and the pastor who stole our house: Pastor Bernard Elliot of The Arundel Christian Tabernacle. Since the court battle we had not heard from him, but today, his wife Evelyn, stopped out front of our “still houseless” yard. We do not know why she was here, she drove off when I started down the driveway to see what she wanted. It dose raise the question, of just who exactly it is behind the harassment we have recieved from our very “religious” town manager,  Jim Thomas . (and ours is not the first they have done this to, they have a long history of doing this!)

I just have to wonder why are the Elliot’s back? What do they want with us? Haven’t they done enough damage already? Why won’t they leave us alone? These people are the ones who lefts pictures of guns on our door, way back in the summer of 2002. The Elliot’s are the ones who paint balled our car. They are the ones who took an axe to signs that stood on our land. They are the ones that caused us to need police protection for 3 long and terrifying years. Three years that my family spent in such terror that we dared not go to the store, because these people were stalking us, we meet them everywhere we went. That was yearws ago. We thought they had stopped, but when they did, that’s when the town manager and his crew started harassing us instead. We had thought that the two things, these two very differant episodes of unexplained harassment had been two seperate incedents. Now it seems that they are together, one and the same that the harssment from the town has been nothing more than an extention of the harsement from the Elliot’s.

Why? Whay are they doing this? What reason could they possibly have for this torture?

pet food recall update: HUMAN FOOD BEING RECALLED!!!!!!!!!

Remember when I wrote this post and questioned what would happen; the effects of farm animals eating tainted food ; being a poultry farmer, my post focused on chicken not pork, but news that corn was now effected, and chickens eat corn one thing lead to another and I started questioning what we feed our chickens…. PORK from pigs that have eaten tainted food, has now been added to the recall!!!
Reading this post lead me to:
Pet Food Contamination Scandal Spreads to Pork, FDA Opens Criminal Investigation.

You know what this is staring to sound like? Biological warfare.

Conventional Advice that Didn’t Work for Her (or Me Either!)…

Patricia A. Duffy says that when it comes to writing,  “Conventional Advice Wouldn’t Work for Me”.  After reading her article, I have to say that basicly, she has said pretty much what I would have said, and what I do say, whenever someone asks me.

According to Patricia A. Duffy:

1) Write every day.

This piece of advice is repeated in almost every book on “how to write.” Maybe some people need this sort of discipline, but I would find it counterproductive. Sometimes I write feverishly every day. Sometimes real life intervenes. I have a demanding job and a family. If I believed I had to write every day, even when I absolutely had no time, I’d quickly grow to hate writing and I’d stop doing it. Mostly, I have more ideas than I have time to process, so “forcing myself to write” is not a problem. And during those periods when “real life” heats up and I can’t write, I don’t feel any guilt. Why should I? Writing isn’t a religious penance or a health routine. It’s something I enjoy.

My responce to what she says:

You’ve heard it preached from the pulpit of every sacred book on writing: WRITE EVERY DAY!!!

Now ask yourself this: What does writing mean to you? Is writing a hobby or a career? How did you answer?

A hobby?

If you think of writing as a hobby, than who cares when you write? No one. If you write as a hobby, than who cares if your writing gets sloppy? No one. If you write as a hobby, than who cares if you ever get published? No one. If you write as a hobby, than by all means writer seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, because you know what? If you are writing because writing is a hobby, no one cares. Why? Because hobby writers write for their own pleasure. If they get published, it’s a great big WOO-HOO! for themselves and their family. But very few hobby writers ever get published. Why? Because they are content to post their stories on message boards and web-sites and blogs. They are happy to see their work on the internet. Writing after all is just a hobby to them. They are content with what they do.  So, for writers who write as a hobby, it is not important when they write, because their family is not dependant on the writing. Just search on Google for Fan-Fiction. Millions of stories are posted all over the internet, but because they are written by hobby writers, tthose stories well never be printed in books. They well never be published, but no one cares, not even the writer. So why than does it matter if the hobby writer writes every day?

Let’s look at the other side of this story.

Now ask yourself this once again: What does writing mean to you? Is writing a hobby or a career? How did you answer?

A career?

I ask you: What is your day job? Do you  wait tables? Drive a school  bus? Are you a cashier at the local super market? Maybe you teach high-school geography? Whatever it is that you do for your day job, ask yourself this: How many days do you work each week? A few well say three, some well say four, almost all of you well say five. By law your employer is required to give you at least two days off each week. That’s a law. That law is enforced. If an employer asks you to work more than five days a week, they are required to pay you time and a half. That too is a law. Why? Because even the government knows that you can’t get the job done if you are not given a day or two of rest. If you work seven days a week, you well run down, wear out and get sloppy. Your work well suffer, because you didn’t get a day off.

So, we come back to your answer: Why do you write? Hobby or career? If you said career, than you know that being a writer is just like every other 9 to 5 job. Nine o clock you sit down at your desk and you start writing. Around noon you take an hour break for lunch. After lunch it’s back to your desk to write until five. Five o clock comes around and no matter how compelled you are to keep writing, you put down your pen, turn off the light and don’t go back to your desk again until tomorrow morning when nine o clock rolls around again. Like any other job, you take the weekend off. Why? Because for you writing is more than a hobby. For you writing is what puts food on the table. For you writing is what puts clothes on your children. Writing just paid for your teenager’s PS3. Writing pays the mortage. Writing pays the vet bills caused by the recent pet-food recall. You write because writing is your career, your job, your livelyhood. For you writing is not a hobby. You can’t afford to let you writing get sloppy and you know that, which is why you also know that it is foolish for you or any other writer to think that it is in your best interest to write every day.

And that is  why I do not write every day.

Moving on to myth #2…

According to Patricia A. Duffy:

2. Don’t Edit Until the First Draft is Done.

I edit obsessively as I go along. I like rewriting things. I can’t imagine another way to write and would be utterly incapable of completing that first draft if I didn’t do it this way.

My responce to what she says:

This, I think, depends on the writer and what they are writing about at the time. Personaly I do not believe in editing as you write, as a general rule. Why? I find that when I am writing, I  write better if I don’t stop. I have learned to ignore typos and spelling mistakes, to turn a blind eye to bad grammar, and to not listen when my mind says I should go back and re-write what I just wrote. Why? Because if I stop, it creates a speed bump. That speed bump slows me down and causes me to go lose track of what it was I was writing. So I find myself going back to where I had stopped, because I have to re-read what I wrote several times before I can remember where it was I was going with that train of thought. In a sence by stopping to edit while I was writing, I have now derailed my writing train, and put it back on a new track, and it just can’t get back onto that old track, because the old track for some odd reason is no longer there. On a road, a speed bump just jostles your car a bit and make you slow down, but on a train track, that same little speed bump not only jostles the train, but knocks it off track and sends it flying into the oncoming train on the other track. That speed bump is now a mangled mess of crumpled train cars, which ow must be towed away and tossed into  a junk heap. A huge rusted junk heap towering high above your head. The next thing you know you can’t write anything at all because all there is is a pile of mangled wreckage. You have hot a writer’s block.

So, where are we now? Well, for me, stopping to edit while I’m still writing is the deadliest thing that can happen while I’m writing. Usually, but not always. This is just me though, and as I said, all writers are differant.

Moving on…

According to Patricia A. Duffy:

3. Use Note cards or Notebooks to Organize Ideas

Even the thought of using index cards to organize fiction ideas is almost enough to make me run screaming into traffic. In my mind, these little cards will forever be associated with undergraduate term papers. I don’t use notebooks because I hate to write longhand. I do all my writing on the word processor — even background notes for novels. Actually, I prefer to do background for novels as short stories, even lame short stories with no chance of selling. I see things better that way.

My responce to what she says:

As most of you know, I never went to school. I can’t identify with term papers because I’ve never had one, let alone seen one, and I’m not realy sure what they are, except that everyone who talks about school talks about term papers too. I’m not sure what an undergraduate is, I’ll look it up next time I’ve got my dictionary at hand. For those who have followed my posts on the net since 1997, you already know that when I joined the internet world, it was my first time typing. I had never used a keyboard before in my life. Likewise, I had also never learned how to spell. I wrote at that time in what I have since been told is a form of a “native lingo of my own invention, cause by lack of previous contact with humans”. In 1997, I first I joined the internet, and became an over night celebrity, not because I posted on every forum and chat room I could find, but because people were fascinated by my complete and total lack of any ability to spell. In the years since that time, my fan following grew to a cult status as people set out to teach me how to spell via online forums.

Than came a revilation to the world, that no one had befor known: My books, the Twighlight Manor seires, several thousand pages, and countless drafts of each, had never seen typewritter, I had written all of them in longhand. The manuscipts where totally written in bright colored notebooks with Lisa Frank art on the covers: thousands of them. Some 40 boxs worth of notebooks, stacked floor to ceiling. Noetbooks that I have been writing in since 1978. Thirty years worth of notebooks.

Today, I still write my books in longhand. I still hand write all of my manuscripts in bright colored children’s note books. To date, I have only ever written one outline. I have never used index cards. I do not type my manuscripts until after haveing hand written several drafts. I do not organize my ideas, my ideas flow from my mind at a rapid rate, and I write them as they come. No notes. No note taking. They are not my style.  They do not work for me.

And finally we come to:

According to Patricia A. Duffy:

4. Keep a Story Circulating until it Sells.

This is another piece of almost universal advice that I don’t follow. I tend to select my markets rather carefully. If something is rejected at the market I’ve thought most probable for it, I will normally only try it on one or two other markets before giving up (or in some cases no other markets). Although there are a lot of magazine markets for speculative short fiction, there are actually relatively few professional markets for speculative short fiction of any given type. I guess my economics training makes me weight the possible benefit (payment for a story) by my subjective evaluation of the “odds” of being published in that magazine. If the weighted payoff is less than the postage, I put the story in a drawer and work on another one.

My responce to what she says:

In some cases, this is true, in others it is not.

Some times I write for copyrighted characters not of my own making. For these stories there is only one publisher that I can legally send the stories to. If they reject the story, than that’s it. It can’t be sent to anyone else.

More often I write stories of characters of my own invention, and for these, I can choose any publisher I damn well please. I can also choose who I DO NOT want to publish it. Than again I can also choose to do what I usually do, and that is to self publish my stories. That is how I came to own my own publishing house. It is through owning my publishing house that I came to become an editor. Today I am a writer, a publisher, and an editor, because I reserved the right to choose when, where, and to whom I sent my manuscripts too: no one!

Well, that is my take on what Patricia A. Duffy says that when it comes to writing,  “Conventional Advice Wouldn’t Work for Me”. 

~~EK

Spring In Maine

It’s a nice warm spring day in April in Maine. I bet you can tell, that is if you can see through the driving snow outside your window. Yep, it’s April, and right on schedual is our annual snowstorm. Jim Thomas and Ken Shoop must be ripping their hair out right now.  More snow mean longer snow on the ground and a longer time we got to stop them from stealing the Goldeneagle (my 1964 Dodge 330 which they have said must be junked as soon as the snow melts, otherwise the town of Old Orchard Beach well fine us $2,500 a day for each day we refuse to remove it.)

For those of you who do not know The Goldeneagle is the heart and soul of The Twighlight Manor series. If not for this car, none of the books would ever have been written. Back in 1978 when the first volum was written their were 4 characters: EelKat, Sir Roderic, Emporer Blue, and Captain Goldeneagle a.k.a Etiole. Captain Goldeneagle was the character based on this car, the character that would go on to be the most celebrated and most contraversal of the entire series: Etiole. The car itself has been featured again and again thoughout the series. It is an icon with fans of the series. An icon who is now threatened on the latest method of harassment that Jim Thomas and Ken Shoop have brought down on our family. (and ours is not the first they have done this to, they have a long history of doing this!)

First they put my dad in the hospital in a coma.

Than they force us to live in a tent during Maine’s sub-zero winter.

Than they threaten our pets.

Now they threaten my car.

And I continue to wonder: when well this end? When well someone put a stop to this man’s reign of terror? Why does everyone turn a blind eye to what they are doing?

~~EK

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testing tags

having a problem getting posts to show up… testing to see if tags are working yet

666

I just logged in for the day. First thing I always do is check comments in queue waiting for moderation. Today there were only 2 comments wating for me to approve them. After reading and approving them I checked the spam comment list to see there were ant comments that got stuck in with the spam ones. About 1 or 2 comments get shifted into the spam section and have to be moved to the comment section, so I always check. Well today I got this message:

Caught Spam

Akismet has caught 666 spam for you since you first installed it.

You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day.

Well, if it isn’t a 458 that’s following me around it’s a 666. What is it with these two numbers anyways? Seems like every day one or the other shows up somewhere and sticks out like a sore thumb at me.

Does this ever happen to any of you? If so what number(s)?

~~EK

Update on Death of Skeezics vs Pet Food recall

new items added to the recall, includeing yet another one that my Skeezics (died Dec 2006 from kidney failure) liked to eat (we still have some of these on the shelf,I just checked the codes).

http://www.purina.com/Company/Press/2007/MightyDog.aspx

http://socalmuchacha.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pet-food-recall-items-added-330-331/

You should also read this post, which I have pasted here:

update ii : emergency pet food recall

March 24th, 2007

Well, they say they have found the culprit responsible for the emergency recall of 60 million or so cans and pouches of pet food spanning almost 100 brands of dog and cat food — numbers attributable to MENU FOODS being the sole supplier for an enormous number of different brand labels’ contents. Interestingly, “They” is not Menu Foods. “They” is New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker and Dr. Donald Smith, dean of Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, who issued a JOINT STATEMENT Friday after initiating an independent investigation Menu Foods played no role in.

“Rat poison.” “Cancer treatment.” “Chinese wheat.” That is what people are saying it is all about. “AMINOPTERIN,” a chemical used some places to kill rodents, and others to treat cancer patients. [I am so glad I am not a cancer patient. Or rodent.] And allegedly nowhere in the United States or Canada, two of the three countries hit. Mexico being the third.

[Someone needs to ask if aminopterin is manufactured in the United States. Plenty of stuff we allegedly do not use in the U.S. — can anyone spell DDT? — we still manufacture here, we just ship it — we say — other places. Anyone asked that question yet?]

While a majority of news reports have habitually reported nominal numbers of animals effected and/or killed by the Menu Foods incident, [anything ranging from 10-16 fatalities in most reports — based on Menu Foods’ lab reports], on March 22 THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY reported they were already aware of 200 cases and expected thousands of pets to eventually be affected. [ABC NEWS : DOCTORS CAUTION THOUSANDS MORE PET DEATHS EXPECTED].

That is just one veterinary facility in one city in the U.S. You do that math. The last count of self reported pet fatalities on PET CONNECTION was 1,188 deaths. [713 cats | 475 dogs]

Other contaminants mold and heavy metal have been ruled out. However, while aminopterin has been identified in recalled pet food, vets are not all convinced aminopterin is the only contaminant present : ABC NEWS : SOME VETS REMAIN SKEPTICAL :

Some veterinary experts say they are still skeptical as to whether the chemical is responsible for the kidney damage the pets endured.

“With the information that we have, none of us feel that this product fits the lesions we are seeing, but there may be information we don’t know yet,” said Lawrence McGill, a veterinary pathologist in Salt Lake City. “The feeling is that there are more questions than answers with this product.”

“Renal failure is not the expected response to these drugs,” said Susan Weinstein, executive director of the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association. She added that most rodent poisons work as severe anticoagulants — meaning they cause the rats that ingest them to bleed to death.

“Whether this particular toxin in this case can create renal failure depends on how this drug works in the body, which may be an entirely different pathway than the anticoagulants,” Weinstein said. “Because we aren’t yet familiar with this toxin, we can’t be confident of the causation link.”

Investigators also have not yet determined whether aminopterin is the only contaminant in recalled food.

“If it is not the only culprit, as I suspect, the problem isn’t over,” McGill said, adding that it is also uncertain as to whether the finding will be much help to veterinarians.

According to McGill, even if the aminopterin is the culprit, “most veterinarians have never heard of this product. There will need to be more information put out to suggest therapeutic regimens.”

There are still a lot of glaring questions here. For starters, is aminopterin the sole cause of the animal fatalities and illnesses? Why did it take a lab less than a week to identify poison in Menu Foods pet food, but Menu Foods over a month to even ascertain anything might be wrong with food after reports of fatalities reached the company from consumers and vets? And why didn’t a single Menu Foods production facility stop production during investigations or the pet food recall?

It is kind of difficult to take a company seriously that professes concern over the discovery of contaminated food on one hand, while continuing to manufacture and distribute the food on the other.

PREVIOUS POSTS ON THE EMERGENCY PET FOOD RECALL :

UPDATE : EMERGENCY PET FOOD RECALL 03.21.07 [this includes a list of recalled foods as well as links to sources for information on feline and canine renal failure and the fda’s posting on the pet food recall]

EMERGENCY PET FOOD RECALL 03.17.07 [this includes the original posting and discussion on the pet food recall]

IMPORTANT LINKS :

NEW YORK LABORATORIES IDENTIFY TOXIN IN RECALLED PET FOOD

HOW TO NOTIFY THE FDA OF A PET’S ILLNESS OR FATALITY

PET CONNECTION : UNOFFICIAL PET ILLNESS AND DEATH REGISTRY

ABC NEWS : DOCTORS CAUTION THOUSANDS MORE PET DEATHS EXPECTED

MENU FOODS LIST OF RECALLED PET FOODS

PET FOOD BRANDS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN MENU FOODS INGREDIENTS OR EMPLOY ANIMAL TESTING

SYMPTOMS OF POSSIBLE KIDNEY FAILURE :

• Increased water intake
• Increased volumes of urination
• Unwillingness to eat
• Vomiting
• Lethargy
• Eating litter [cats]

Animals exhibiting these symptoms should be taken for veterinary care immediately.

OTHER INTERESTING SPOTS :

Pooks posted a pretty INTERESTING PIECE on just who is selling wheat to Menu Foods — while simultaneously funding the war on Iraq and buying up the U.S. And oh yeah, who owns Wal-Mart? I do not think that proves the Chinese just poisoned all those dogs and cats. I do think it means they paid a lot of advertising dollars into FOX NEWS. The biggest propoganda arm the current White House regime has. Wow. Thanks, Chinese Guys. We really needed four more years of Bush. Zee has posted a LETTER FROM PETA about the recall. I do not approve of all of PETA’s methods. But hey, the idea is right. Protect animals. Animals cannot protect themselves.

EDITED MARCH 30 TO INCLUDE : UPDATE III : EMERGENCY PET FOOD RECALL

Posted by max

Filed in pet food recall, life with animals, all, politics

SPAM???

(¯`•Stormraven•._) wrote: define spam?

on my board im puttin a spam board, and most people that are joined to my forum dont know what spam is, so i wanna put an announcment about ‘what is spam’, can someone help me out and write me the announcment?EDIT: please

So you want to know about SPAM? All right.

Did you know?

The word SPAM is not an acronym at all. It comes from a famous “Monty Python” sketch wherein a customer at a cafe is bombarded with SPAM, the only item on the menu. A chorus of Vikings revel with the song: “SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM.”

Additionally, SPAM is a Hormel product named after “spicy ham” that served as the basis of the sketch.

So what exactly is this thing called SPAM on places like email, blogs, and message boards?

What is SPAM?

That depends on what you are really asking.

SPAM is illeagle, not only is it illeagle, but it is a criminal act, an FBI reportable offense, that can result in a $25,000 fine, and for the worst offenders a prison sentance.

What is SPAM?

SPAM is the posting of links to illeagle web-sites, such as those promoting Porn or drugs; usually through emails, blog comments, or “guest posts” on message boards.

HOWEVER:

SPAM has come to mean many other things as well… and today is used very losely to discribe a wide variaty of interrnet activities.

Most of us today, know SPAM as the posting of multi-links to a single web site…SEE THIS POST HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE… this type of SPAM is usually done by Bloggers hoping to raise their blog ranks through pingbacks and inbound links… like the “true” SPAM it too, is an FBI reportable offence (admins getting this type of posting on their site can go to the FBI website, and file a report of “online harasment”)

the type of SPAM you are refereing to is known as “friendly” SPAM… this is when an admin of a blog or forum invites members to post comments that are totally pointless and usually only one or two words such as:

LOL!

Got Ya!

I Won!

so… does that answer your question?

~~EK

Unusual sea creature…

I just saw this picture on another blog:

Under The Sea

Feb 23rd, 2007 by sparky23

[...  The picture at the top of this post is of a creature (one of many bizarre and odd beasts) that washed up after the tsunami in Southeast Asia in December of 2004. Its alien strangeness reminds us of the natural possibilities…  ...]

Does anyone have an info about this creature? Perhaps someone knows of any articles about it? if so please post a link to them in my comments, I’d love to find out more about this. Thanks!

~EK

Church VS Christian

I was just out chatting on another forum, and came across a discution about being a Christian and going to church or not. Well of course, you know me, I just had to join in a give my 2 cents worth right? Well, I got to thinking… It’s a good topic, why not have it on my forum as well?So, here it is: The original post that started the other topic on the other forum, and my answer to it. Add what ever you feel needs adding.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sept 18, 2006, 6:07am, pulse2 wrote:

Ok, I am a christian, I portray christianity in my life, I harm no one (Mainly because I’m pretty peaceful and avoid fights, just use words, usually more harmfull ), I don’t steal, I have never injured let alone murdered someone, I don’t go around lying and cursing people, I respect anyone and everyone, I love my family and pretty much everything needed to be a christian, however, I don’t go to church as often as a lot of Christians who go every Sunday, I’m just too busy, people say I can’t be a real christian if I don’t go to church every Sunday, huh?Do I need to? Its not as if I have never been before, I make and effort to go when I can, honestly? But how is it that many that do go to church can cheat on thier partner, betray someone, kill someone (Not likely but still happens), maybe rape or rob or even commit some other kind of sin, not once, but maybe several times and still be classed as more of a christian then me? I find that kind of hypocritical.Does this happen to any of you? Can you answer it? Does it happen to any other religeons?

I am a Christian. I grew up in a very strict Christian home.

When I say strict, I mean VERY: not only were the things you mentioned grave sins, but so to were the following:

women were forbidden to:

• cut their hair
• wear pants
• wear skirts above the knee
• wear short sleeves
• wear makeup
• wear jewelry
• be over 16 years of age and not be married
• be over 18 years of age and not have at least 4 children
• work or get jobs

things forbidden to all, both men and women included:

• drinking
• smoking
• coffee
• tea
• soda
• swearing (and you’s be surprised the things that are considered a swear!)
• public school
• meat

Those are just the major biggie sins, there are lots of little ones as well, stupid ritual like things… hand washings, wearing special underwear you have to wear, and stuff like that

giant sins like adultery, rape, murder, divorce, etc… those things you can’t be forgiven for EVER.

at least accourding to my family….

me, today, as an adult… I look at them and think… they are nuts!

today, I am still a Christian, I stll wear long dresses, I have long hair, and I don’t eat meat, but beyound that, I do not believe the same things my family does… I do not believe that the idiosicesies and rituals make you a Christian

today, my family shuns me, I am “the evi one”l, “the child of satan”, “the fallen one”, and other such titles they have given me. Why?

Because:

• I drink tea
• I drink soda
• I am 31 and not yet married
• I am 31 and have no children
• at age 31 I am trying to get a job and finding it very difficult as no one well hire a women age 31 with no schooling or prviouse job experiance
• I do not attend church
• I do not attend temple
• I do not wear special underwear

What is a Christian? By deffanition, a Christian is one who obeies the practices of Christ.

What did Christ do?

• He heal the sick
• he helped the poor
• he preached love thy neighbor
• he taught AGAINST eye for an eye
• he said to pray to The Father
• he did not wear fancy clothes
• he was condemded for working on Sabbth
• he made a whip and beat people in church
• he not only drank wine, he turned water into it

there are a whole list of things that Chriist taught, said, and did, he rarely went to church on the Sabbeth and was constantly ridiculed for it, by the Pharasies and the Saducies

I believe that a Christian does the things that Christ did…

I have known men and women who go to church every Sunday (or Saterday, depending on their faith), and I have known those same men and women to lie, cheat, steal, swear, drink, commit adultry, 3 went to prison for rape, a few were excumunicated for child abuse, and one even went to prison for murder.

All of them claimed to be Christian, all of them never missed the Sabbath.

I have meet many people who were not Christian. Where I live the Jewish faith is quite strong, there is even a synagog a mile from my house, and another 2 towns away. Musliums are becoming quite common here latly as well. There is a hindu community 40 mins away, and several Asia communities, with tradition relgions, that I do not understand or know the names of. After the Jews, Wiccans are prob’ly the largest non-Christian religion in the area. I’ve known MANY of them.

Than there are those who believe nothing, atheists and agnostics. My best friend’s dad is one of these.

Well, the point is, these non-Christian, live their lives quite peacefully, they go about their daily business, they do not try to convert people to their faith, they just go about their daily lives….

• in spite of the Christian groups who organize protests and camp out on their front lawns or business steps,
• in spite of the Christians who smash car windshield and storefront plate glass…
• in spite of the Christians who spray paint swatica’s on front doors of homes and synagogs….
• in spite of Christians who throw pigs heads in synagogs and mousques and drip pig’s blood and pig fat on car door handles. (yeah… I live Maine, right near the one that’s been on international news all summer, the pig head incedent that everyone was talking about on national news, it was local news here for months before the media got ahold of it… the one they had to call the FBI in on, because the Christians are so uptight against Jews and Muslums around here)

My question is…

• wasn’t Jesus a Jew?
• and when did Jesus do things like this to other faiths?
• how are these “good Christians” condoning this as something Jesus would do?
• and how can they sit in church each Sunday knowing what they did?

In answer to your question, I have this to say:

Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian anymore than sitting in a garage on Saterday makes you a car!

It is what you say, that makes you a Christian.
It is what you do, that makes you a Christian.
It is how you treat others, that makes you a Christian.
It is what is in your heart, that makes you a Christian.
It is love for one another, that makes you a Christian.

It is who you are,
not where you are,
that makes you what you are!

i think the average Christian (of which I am) is okay… they are living by what they believe in and are overall good people…it’s the fanitics that bug me, you know, the type that say “You go to my church or I’ll kill you.” those type. They bug me cause, that wasn’t Jesus way. He gave people the freedom to choice or not, he didn’t force people to follow him against their will.

Town Begins Investigation of Manager

What follows is a copy of a news article from a Maine newspaper: Portland Press Herald. If you haven’t done so already, please read last month’s post: Government Corruption: Town’s Harasment of Disabled Senior Goes Too Far!for more information regarding the series of events in the lives of just one of the families that this man has tormented.

Town Begins Investigation of Manager

Jim Thomas’ management style has led to complaints in Old Orchard Beach

By Seth Harkness;Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald York Edition March 15, 2007 copyright 2007 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.

OLD ORCHARD BEACH_ The Old Orchard Beach Town Council voted Wednesday night to hire a lawyer to examine complaints against Town Manager Jim Thomas.The councilors did not name the employee under investigation when they voted unanimously to hire Brunswick attorney Martin Wilk “in connection with a personal matter”, and no councilors would publicly confirm the town manager was involve. But in the last six weeks the town council has held two closed door meetings to discuss personal issues, neither of which were attended by Thomas. The Old Orchard Beach town charter requires the town manager to “attend the meetings of the Town Council, except when the Manager’s removal is being considered.”

Before the meeting, Town Council Chairmen Joe Klein was asked whether the personnel matter on Wednesday night’s agenda involved Thomas. “That’s a logical deduction,” he said.

As recently as last fall, the council extended Thomas’ contract and gave him a raise. Many people also credit the town manager, a Lewiston native who was hired in 2003, with helping to improve the appearance of downtown and attracting a new wave of economic development.

However, what some describe as Thomas’ headstrong style of dealing with town employees and members of the public has credited conflict, both in Old Orchard Beach and at his previous manager’s job in Sterling, Colo.

Thomas was fired from the Colorado position in December of 2002 after four months on the job, according to Frank Gower, a city councilor in Sterling for the past nine years. “He didn’t get along with employees and it was like his way or the highway,” said Gower. “He’s a good visionary man, but I think his management style left a lot to be desired. It was a conflict type management style like I’ve never seen before.”

Some former town employees in Old Orchard Beach said they had similar experiences while working for Thomas.

Tim Braun was director of Public Works in Old Orchard for six years and is now town engineer in Gorham. Braun left his position in Old Orchard one year after Thomas arrived, he said, because he could not tolerate working with the town manager. Braun described Thomas as a temperamental boss, prone to delivering orders and threatening employees with the loss of their jobs.

“He uses the authoritarian model,” Braun said. “I was reminded that I was an employee at will. There wasn’t any mincing of words.”

Thomas did not respond to requests for an interview Wednesday.

In September of 2005 the Town Council discussed residents’ complaints that the town manager had shown a lack of respect toward individuals and a disregard for public opinion. The council took no action at that time and Thomas said that his efforts to improve the town were bound to upset some people.

One recent controversy involving Thomas occurred last week when two town councilors, Jim Long and Robin Dayton, questioned the legality of a closed-door meeting in which they said Thomas urged the council to extend a contract with Poland Spring.

Thomas also was accused of running afoul of freedom of information laws during his tenure in Colorado. In October of 2002, the Journal Advocate, a daily newspaper in Sterling, published an editorial that chastised Thomas for refusing to release a copy of minutes from a city staff meeting. The paper also criticized Thomas for a policy requiring city employees to answer questions from the press only in writing.

Despite the controversies, a majority of the Old Orchard Beach Town Council voted in October to extend Thomas’ contract through June 2008 and raise his salary to $92,000.

Contact Staff Writer Seth Harkness at 207-282-8225 or at: sharkness@pressherald.com

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Second Round of Blog Additions

Here is the second round of blogs I plan to add to the Z-List for Writers:

Writing Fiction
Crime Fiction Dossier
Kathryn Cramer
WritersWrite.com
Writer’s Beware
The Fiction Writing Blog: Articles, Writing Exercises, Prompts and More….
sfsignal.com
Bowing to the Future
David Louis Edelman
Louise Marley
Among Amid While
Authors Blogs
The Writer’s Life

This Day in History: March 13

March 13 is an interesting day; here are a few examples:

On March 13 in 1781, German born English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the seventh planetfrom the sun, Uranus.

On March 13 1887, Chester Greenwood of Maine recieved a patent for earmuffs.

On March 13, 1964 Catherine Genovese was killed in the Kew Gardens Community of Queens, NY, while 38 of her friends and neighbors, “not wanting the get involved” watched for nearly 30 minutes as the girl was repeatedly stabbed by her 29 years old attacker. Others, outraged by her friends’ testamony declared March 13 “Good Samaritan Day”, a day to emphasize the importance of unselfish aid to those who need it.

What happened to this girl reminds me of our family. Dozens of people, possibly hundreds, know what has been happening to our family, and yet, no one well help us, no one well do anything to stop it, even when we have begged and pleaded for help from everyone we can think of, still no one well help us and thier reason is always the same: “It’s not my place to get involved.” Most of those would say this claim to be Christians. Now I ask you, in view of this being Good Samaritain’s Day, “What would Jesus do?”

Hand Over the Doggie Biscuits and No One Gets Peed On!

As posted on Xaveir’s Nest: Hand Over the Doggie Biscuits and No One Gets Peed On!

 

New from Copper Cockeral

Doggie Biscuits ***

Doggie Biscuits Black ***

Hand over the doggie buscuits and no one gets peed on!

 

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UFO’s in USA

Ever read Ask Yahoo? I do. In fact, I’ve been a subcriber of it since day one, forget what year that was, but it was back around 1997 or so. This one kind of fits the overall theme of my blog here, so I thought it wold make for a good conversation starter.

Dear Yahoo!:

Why do most UFO sightings happen in the United States?

Ravi Mumbai, India

Dear Ravi:

Maybe Americans are more in tune with the cosmos. Perhaps aliens want to chat about “American Idol” with real Americans. Whatever the reason, this is a hard question to crack because (attention, conspiracy theorists!) there isn’t an official site for reporting UFOs.The National UFO Reporting Center lists thousands of “close encounters” submitted by users. According to its database, the United States has far and away the most reported UFO sightings. In fact, California alone has reported more than China, England, India, and Brazil combined.But this doesn’t necessarily mean Americans see UFOs more than other people. It just means more Americans report seeing UFOs to this particular site. The Center for UFO Studies explains, “No one is sure why the number of UFO reports varies from country to country, but cultural, religious, and political factors are probably involved.” In other words, seeing a UFO in the United States might be kind of cool. In other countries, that may not be the case.The truth is, UFOs have been (allegedly) seen just about everywhere — from the hills of Switzerland to the coast of Australia. Should you ever spot one, the Center for UFO Studies advises you get witnesses, take pictures, and write down the details. Oh, and don’t forget to report it.

So, now that you have read it: What do you think? Do you think UFO’s are real or not? Why do you feel as you do? How can you support your beliefs?

Here’s an optional thought: If you have ever seen one, when was it and where? How would you describe the event?

Causes EK Supports: Animal Rights

I support many causes, esp those dealing with chickens, poultry, and farm animals. Other causes I support are animal rights, children’s rights, anti-elder abuse, breast cancer, endangered specices, anti-fur, vegan, the environment, and other such causes.

I was one of the original protestors of Proctor & Gamble, back in the early 1980’s, and am now entering my 18th year of active and ongoing protest and boycott of Proctor & Gamble and it’s masive and shameless support of the Draize Eye Test.

My home is currently the refuge of over 200 stray, abandoned, etc. animals, includeing 9 cats, 2 dogs,  and 200+ roosters and hens.

Listed below are many (though not nearly all) the causes I currently support.

Animal Welfare:

 

300+ Geese to be Slaughtered!

A Cessation to the Illegal Brutal Practices of Farra-do-Boi in Brazil

An Ordinance For Pinellas County Prohibiting the Trapping or Killing of Peacocks

A Petition to Protect the Animal Victims of Hurricane Katrina

AllAboutAnimals.org.uk

AnimalActivist.com

 

Animal rights group to protest KFC

AnimalSavingsClub.com

www.animalwelfaresociety.org – The Animal Welfare Society (were 2 of my dogs came from)

Another Chance Animal Rescue Home Page

Antifreeze is Deadly to Children & Animals – Help Make it Safe

Are You Taking Good Care of Your Pet?

Australian and South Pacific Whales Under Renewed Threat From Whaling

Ban the Export of Live Horses for Slaughter

Be an Angel for Stray Animals

BruceFriedrich.com

CaringConsumer.com

Carrot2004.com

ChuayChangThai.com

 

 

Chickens blow-torched to death, frogs blown up

 

Chickens and Turkeys Deserve Humane Treatment, Too

Circuses.com

CircusWatch.com

 

 

Click daily to make a difference!

 

Click free to help the Wildlife Conservation Society protect big cat territory now!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN LCA’S MAILING LIST!!!!

Cockfighting

CommandoChicks.com

CompassionateCitizen.com

CowsAreCool.com

Crack Down On Canned Hunts!

Cruelty to Pet Shop Animals

Danger! Endangered Species Act Threatened

Dissection

Don’t Abandon Pets in Disasters

DON’T ALLOW THE MORINI FARM TO SELL ANIMALS FOR VIVISECTION. …

Don’t Be Cruel

Dog-Fighting

End Canada’s Merciless Seal Hunt

END CRUELTY TO KFC CHICKENS

European Union allows sadistic torturing of animals because it’s tradition

Factory Farming

Federal: Fight Puppy Mills! Urge Your Representative to Support the Pet Animal Welfare Statute (PAWS)!

Federal: Urge your Representative to Protect Downed Animals! Support H.R. 3931!

Feral Cats in Philadelphia need your help!!!

FishingHurts.com

Fur

FurIsDead.com

FurisDead.co.uk

Fur Killing for Commerce

GoVeg.com

GoVeg.co.uk

HB 497 Alternatives to Dissection

Have the AKC stop registering puppies from puppy mills

***HELP BAN THE CRUELTY OF BATTERY HEN EGGS*** Petition

HELP BAN THE HORROR OF BATTERY HENS !!!

 HELP BAN THE HORROR OF BATTERY HENS !!!

help pets in need with your free click!

Help Protect Endangered Great Cats and Rare Canines

Help Stop Puppy Mills!!!

HelpingAnimals.com

HelpingAnimals101.com

Hunting

IamsCruelty.com

Incarcerate Kitten Killer!

Intern at LCA

JesusVeg.com

JesusVeg.de

Join PETA’s Activist Network

JustChoices.com

Keep Pets Safe During Disasters – Ask Red Cross to Adopt National Program

KFCCruelty.com

KFCCruelty.co.uk

KFCGrausam.de

 

 

KFC, Improve the Lives of Animals!

 

KFC IS EVIL TO CHICKENS

Leather

LettuceLadies.com

Links To Rescue Leagues, Humane Societies, Animal Shelter, Pet…

LobsterLib.com

Maine Pet Shelters and Animal Rescue Organizations

Make Aggravated Animal Cruelty a Felony  

Make Animal Abuse Punishments More Severe

 

 

Make animal testing a thing of the past.

 

 

Make Cars Safe for Cats and Other Small Creatures

Make Penalties for Animal Abuse More Severe! 

Make pet “owners” into pet “guardians”

MarchofCrimes.com

MeanGreenies.com

MassKilling.com

Masskilling.co.uk

NewPet.com Animal Shelter Search

 

NO MORE LEG TRAPS USED ON WILDLIFE IN ALASKA!

Non-Pet Animal Protection

Pet Overpopulation

Pet Theft

PETA.org

PETAAuctions.com

PETACatalog.com

PETAKids.com

PETALiterature.com

PETAMall.com

PETAPSA.com

PetaTV.com

PETAIndia.com

PETAIndiaKids.com

PETAenEspanol.com

PETAKids.com

PETA-Kids.de

peta.org.uk

PETA.de

peta2.com

PETA2.co.uk

PETA2.de

PETA.nl

PINELLAS COUNTY FREE SPAY/NEUTER PROGRAM

Please support the bill for new Animal Welfare Act of Croatia

Please take further action today:  (avian flu)

PleatherYourself.com

Pledge to boycott Procter & Gamble products until they cease testing on animals!

Premarin

 

 

Protect Colorado’s Female Cougars and Their Kittens

Protect Livestock in Texas

 

 

Protect the Wolves of Norway

 

Prevent the Misuse of Antibiotics Petition

Puppy Mills

Repeal Philadelphia Bann on Farm Animals PetitionSAVE 53-YEAR-OLD ELEPHANT IN EMERGENCY CONDITION

Save baby seals with a FREE click now!

SAVE CATS, DOGS, AND RABBITS FROM TORTURE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

Save The HeadStart Turtle Program!!

SAVE MORE THAN 100,000 ANIMALS! Stop Fur-Farming Complex From Being Built in Norway

Save rain forests with a FREE click now!

Save Scottish Hedgehogs from Annual Cull

Save the Great Bear Rainforest

Say “No” to Japan’s Plan to Kill Humpback Whales

SaveTheSheep.com
ShedYourSkin.com

SeaVegetariano.com

ShareTheWorld.com

Sign LCA’s petition to help
the LA Zoo Elephants

Start an Animal Rights Club at Your School

www.stolenpets.com

 

 

Stop Aerial Gunning of Wolves in Alaska 

 

Stop Animal Abuse!

StopAnimalTests.com

STOP the barbaric, inhumane killing of Akron, Ohio’s cats, NOW!

Stop Congress from gutting the Endangered Species Act!

Stop Cruel Seal Hunt

Stop Dissection in the Classroom

Stop Kentucky Fried Cruelty

Stop KFC Cruelty 

Stop the Horrors of Factory Farming Now

Stop Nauticalia Ltd Making Real-Fur Cat Trinkets!

Stop Overfishing in New England

Stop Premarin and Pregnant Mare Abuse

Stop Slaughter of Downed Animals for Human Consumption!

STOP TORTURE AND KILLING OF HORSES

***STOP USING BATTERY HEN EGGS IN SUPERMARKET PRODUCTS! …

Support Alternatives to Dissection and Students’ Right to Choose!

Support Cruelty-Free Charities

Support the Jane Goodall Institute with your free click today.

Support for the “Friends-In-Need” rescue center

TeachKind.org

TeamPETA.com

 

 

Tell Bush: Stop the importation of endangered species!

 

Tell Congress: Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

TELL IAMS TO CEASE CAT AND DOG EXPERIMENTS

Tell Trader Joe’s ITS CUSTOMERS Want Cage-Free Eggs ONLY!

Threatened Oceans: Help Save the Striped Bass

torturing animals for amusement

TrueFriendsMemorials.com

University of Arizona Kills Dogs

Urge KFC to end cruel slaughter, use CAK Petition

Urge the March of Dimes to stop wasting money on Animal Testing!

Urge tobacco companies to end smoking tests on animals

Veganism

VegCooking.com

VegKids.com

VegetarianStarterKit.com

VeggieVisitors.com

Vivisection

We Demand Justice for Tiger Killer!  

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Copper Cockeral Introduces it’s New Blog: Xavier’s Nest

The following is an introductory quote from Xavier’s Nest:

Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts began in November of 2003 when I got this computer I ue today and the free printer that came with it. I had the printer set up in less than an hour and by the end of the day I had gone through 2 reams of paper and card stock, after printing up hundreds of sample designs for cards, stationary, and what not. The printer being also a scanner, ment that I had set out to scanning all of my paintings into the computer as well. One of those paintings I call, The Copper Cockeral. It’s a close up of a rooster’s head, painted an aged copper green-blue. I shrunk it down to a tiny logo and printed it on the back of everything I printed up. A month later I was printing up Christmas cards for paper carriers to hand out o their customers, as task which I continued to do for the next 3 years. And so began Copper Cockeral’s early days as poor quality printed off a free printer. I was happy that I had gotten this business off and running, but I was very displeased with the quality. I went on to test out the quality of four more printers and every type of paper I could find, but still none meet my standerds of perfection.

In the meantime however, I discovered an online printer called Zazzle, who would take my designs and put them on thier products, allowing me to build a website to sell them on. I was intreged and quickly set up my own Zazzle Gallery. In those days Zazle offered 3 products: cards, plain white t-shirts, and posters. Today Zazzle has expanded their line to include buttons, bumper stickers, silk ties, t-shirts in every color imaginable, US Postage stamps, keyrings, posters, framed prints, mugs, hats, totebags, and lots more. As they expand their line, so too does Copper Cockeral.

My income with Zazzle has been hit and miss, mostly due to the fact that they do nothing to promot your line. It’s up to you to do that, marketing and advertising was not something I was interested in, I was more interested in creating the products than promoting them, and back than, the Space Dock 13 Network did not yet exist.

Displeased with the slow sale of Zazzle (and still not marketing on my own) I set out in search of another printer. This time I found CafePress. CafePress, at the time, only had 14 products; today they have 90. Compareing CafePress’s 14 products to Zazzle’s 3, I realized that there was so much room for me to expand the Copper Cockeral line. CafePress not oonly had cards and t-shirts, but they also had clockes, cups, and ceramic tile jewerly boxes. Copper Cockeral expanded.

Today Copper Cockeral embraces both Zazzle and CafePress, offering over 60 designs each on more than 150 products. While most of the line is still designed by me (Wendy C. Allen / EelKat), there are 4 others also creating designs: my three brothers and our mom.

Starting on February 16, 2007, Copper Cockeral now has it’s own web site, still under construction as I type this, but online and taking orders.

This site which you are reading right now, is the blog for Copper Cockeral, named Xavier’s Nest, in memory of the long line of real copper cockerals all named Xavier that have lived on our farm over the years. The original Xavier was Xavier Logan, a character out of my Twighlight Manor series: a wild rock star from planet Flame, most noted for his long firey-red hair and his neon yellow clothes trimmed in pink. In 1989, our farm expanded to include a flock of 25 bantam roosters, which saddly got lost in the mail, and shipped to us 3 days late, with all but one having died. That one went on to become my first Xavier, the first of many. Xavier roosters are always green-eyed Partrige Cochins, a rare mutation, with brilliant green eyes and bright firey red feathers, that oddly resemble Xavier Logan, for whom they are named.

R2~D2 Mailboxes!

WOW! Check these out! I want me one of those!

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Want to Live Longer? Go Sleep On It.

Today from Answers.com: 

Spotlight: A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has found that people who take a regular daily nap are less likely to die of a heart attack. Researchers mapped the sleep habits of adults in Greece and found that those who napped most frequently for up to 30 minutes at a time had a 37 percent lower risk of heart disease. In France, the health minister has commissioned a study to determine if napping at work could increase performance and benefit health. And in the US, a study released by Columbia University shows that if you’re middle-aged and sleep five or less hours a night, you may be increasing your risk of developing high blood pressure. So George Costanza had the right idea when he carved himself a little nap area under his desk at work. Sweet dreams.

Quote: “When you can’t figure out what to do, it’s time for a nap.” — Mason Cooley

Weirdly Wednesdays: A Bird that Eats Cars.

I just came across this and thought it was a good idea:

Weirdly Wednesday

 

You can find “Weirdly Wednesday” posts at these sites:

1) http://atlindas.wordpress.com
2) http://fracas.wordpress.com 
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On Wednesdays, post a “Weirdly Wednesday” post… a weird site, the weirdest search term in your stats, something from Hollyweird. Whatever.    Link to www.atlindas.wordpress.com  — Let me know and I’ll link back to you.

and so, here is my addition to the weirdness for this day:
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

Kea – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1856

Kea have red feathers under the wings

Habitat & Nutrition

Keas range along the whole South Island of New Zealand, yet they are closely bound to the southern beech (Nothofagus) forests in the alpine ridge. In one study nest sites occur at a density of 1 per 4.4km². Nest sites are usually positioned on the ground underneath large beech trees, in rock crevices or dug burrows between roots. They are accessed by tunnels leading back 1m to 6m into a larger chamber, which is furnished with lichens, moss, ferns and rotting wood. The laying period starts in January and reaches into July (Jackson 1960). As omnivores, Kea are known to feed on more than 40 plant species (Tab. 1), on beetle larva, meat and foods provided by humans. Keas have also been taking advantage of human garbage and “gifts”. In captivity, these birds are very fond of butter, all forms of nuts, apples, carrots, grapes, mangos, figs, bread, dairy products, ground meat and even pasta. When roaming around, They might even chip paint the roofs of cars (if cars are near) and eat that.

Government Corruption: Another Update…

An upate on THIS POST.

The latest round of harasment is now a requirerment that we keep a log of each and every time we feed our pets and give them water. The town has required that we keep a logbook hanging at our frontdoor so that the police can come in a check it whenever they deem it “necassary”.

They have also said that we must cut a hole in the wall so that the cats and dogs can go in and out 24 hours a day. These are house pets! They don’t even LIKE going outside! Worse, there is a pack of cyotees and at least one black bear, that rutinely wander about on our land. We can’t have a hole cut in the side of our house! The cyottees well eat my babies! The town laws have  reached the point that they have become Communistic. This is insane! How can they pass laws like this?

They are also requiring that all cars be in a garage. They say that we can not have more than one car, and that if we own more than one car they can fine us $2,500 for each day that we have more than one car in our yard and not in a garage! How can they get away with this? Old Orchard Beach is a town not a dynasty! What is wrong with them? How do these laws get passed?

Well, a result of these latest harasements is that my dad has had yet another stress overload, and has to go in for surgery yet again, tomorrow morning as a result.

What they are doing to us is not right.

~~EK

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