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Finger Length May Determine Whether or Not You're a Jerk {Lemondrop}
Nov 8th 2009 11:49PM That's odd; my fourth finger is longer than my second, and I have given birth to three children, so I'm pretty sure I'm female.
ChiChi the Chihuahua-Mix Named Hero Pet of the Year {Pawnation}
Aug 28th 2009 2:13AM I'm sorry, but you probably can't get info. A large part of the Army archives burned several years ago. I have been unable to get info about my birth defect for the same reason--I was born in an Army hospital.
ChiChi the Chihuahua-Mix Named Hero Pet of the Year {Pawnation}
Aug 28th 2009 2:08AM I just about gag when I see that God-dog stuff. God is not a dog. There are good dogs and, alas, bad dogs, though most bad dogs become such because they have bad people. These animals all behaved in heroic manner, showing real understanding of the situations.
Father Wants Baby-Snatching Wolf-Dog Hybrid Back Home {Pawnation}
Aug 27th 2009 2:29AM Veterinarians do NOT recommend that dogs have a litter of puppies before they are spayed. It is best for them to be spayed before going into heat the first time.
All dogs are genetically wolves. This is proven by the fact that wolf-dogs are fertile with each other, with wolves, and with dogs.
The man who wants the dog back has rocks in his head. I have watched dogs carry their puppies. They do it by the scruff of the neck; they do not hold the puppy in the mouth as if it were a loaf of bread.
Babies should be properly introduced to dogs. Even then some dogs are jealous, but none of my animals (dogs, cats, and rabbits) have ever been jealous of babies, and my mother-in-law's dog got very upset when my baby or my sister-in-law's baby started crying and nobody was at the crib two seconds later.
Will Bloody Texting PSA Get The Message To Teens? {ParentDish}
Aug 25th 2009 6:14PM When my middle daughter, an excellent actress, was a senior in high school, she and some of her classmates staged a "fatal" collision in the high school parking lot. After a few minutes of hysteria all over the school, the "dead" came back to life and reminded everybody not to have drinking and driving after the upcoming prom, lest scenes like this become real. Liz feels strongly that the act saved at least some injuries if not some lives.
Kids Would Stay in Burning Buildings, Survey Shows {ParentDish}
Aug 10th 2009 3:25PM When I was in CSI, I worked arsons and fire deaths. Typically a child in a building on fire, without an adult to explain what to do, will run into a closet or hide under a bed. In one tragic case a woman was gone to a bar "for fifteen minutes" while a fire burned through a two-hour-safe barricade in her house. Neighbors got most of the children (hers or visitors') out, but one five-year-old girl ran into a bedroom. closed the door, and entered the closet. She was still alive when firefighters arrived. As they tried to get to her, a coat behind her caught fire and set her clothing on fire. She tried to run out of the closet and fell face-down into boiling water. That was over thirty years ago, but I will never forget that charred back and boiled face and chest. The mother was hysterical and continued to insist that she'd been gone only fifteen minutes. That was clearly untrue, on the basis of the evidence.
Make SURE your children know what to do. The woman who leaves the burning pork chops to hold a fire drill is right. The pork chops can be replaced. The children can't. Yes, that can be stopped when the children are older, but as long as they are too small to remember AND INTERNALIZE such things, the fire drill is best.
Woman Jailed For Dragging Kid on Leash {ParentDish}
Aug 6th 2009 1:23AM I 'm 65, and I can still remember when I outgrew my leash. All of a sudden, instead of being able to dart here and there to look at things, I was stuck holding my arm way above my head to hold the hand of a parent or grandparent. My arm got tired. When my children were small I couldn't find harnesses for them, and I was saddened by that. However, dragging a child by the harness is a bit much. She should have picked him up, carried him to a cart, and set him in it. There's nothing wrong with a harness, just with the way she was using it.
Library-Themed Ben & Jerry's Coming to a Freezer Near You? {Slashfood}
Aug 2nd 2009 4:24PM Linda, thanks for the info. I'm an ex-cop, but I had never heard about this. I'm on a permanent sugar-free low-fat diet due to surgery, so I don't do Ben & Jerry's anyway, but others I know sometimes do. I'll pass this info on to them. Please respond to this comment here as well as on your original post, so I'll know where it is. There is no conceivable question as to this man's guilt, so why are people supporting him? Do you have any idea? I was enthusiastic about library ice cream, but I'm not enthusiastic about cop-killers.
How to Talk to a Policeman: A Lesson from the Henry Louis Gates Incident {Politics Daily}
Jul 22nd 2009 9:23AM Here is a copy of an email I sent to the President of Harvard, with my identifying info removed:
TO: The Harvard University Community
FROM: Anne ---, Ph.D.
RE: Dr. Gates’s Situation
If I had to break into my own home and police called by a neighbor showed up, I'd identify myself and thank the officers for coming, and later thank the neighbors.
Yes, I'm white--sort of. I look white. Actually I'm mixed race; my great-grandmother, whom I well remember, was born a slave.
I'm an ex-cop, and my youngest daughter was shot to death by police for a crime she didn't commit. No, I didn't sue anybody. I'm very sorry for the officers who made the mistake--and it was an honest mistake; they (I don't know their races) were shooting at a known murderer (white) who was speeding 110 MPH and wouldn't stop, and they did not know my daughter (white as far as anyone could see, but we don't know for sure because her birth mother was my sister but her birth father is unknown) was lying down in the front seat, probably with a knife at her throat.
If Dr. Gates would think himself into the other man's shoes a time or two, he might see things differently. The police were there to protect the owners of the house and their possessions; they weren't there to hassle anybody. This famous scholar" was the one who started the hassling.
I will concede that he was tired, ill, and upset. But that's no excuse for failing to realize that police were there not because he was black, but because someone had reported a crime in progress. How did the police know that somebody inside didn't have a gun on Dr. Gates and was forcing him to remain inside and refuse to cooperate? And why did he find it necessary to go outdoors and confront the officers again when they were leaving?
Please tell Dr. Gates that if he will offer to forgive the officers for their error they'll forgive him for his, and then they can shake hands and save the community a whole lot of money and annoyance. I never met a cop in my two-state, three-department career who wanted to hassle, much less convict, an innocent man. I know such beasts exist, but they are quite rare. Good manners will go farther to exterminate that beast than lawsuits will.
Sea Otters vs. Monkeys -- Which Is More Awesome? {Asylum}
Jul 21st 2009 3:31PM Stacy, can it be that the monkeys don't want you to watch them crap? Would you want them to watch you in the bathroom?
