I am so sorry for your loss of Princess. It seems that are pets are the ones that give us unconditional love and leave such a hole in our hearts when they die. I like this quote by Will Rogers and use it as a sig line.
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
one of the big environmental/jobs controversies is the keystone pipeline which would bring oil and natural gas from canada and the tar sands to the us and the refiners near the gulf.. www.htlp://news.yahoo.com/protesters-circle-white-house-oil-pipeline-row-00062747.html.
how do you feel about this project.
have any here been to the tar sands sites.
I think the pipline is a GOOD THING all the way around: infrastructure - additional/new refinery capacity, plus new sikilled and unskilled jobs, boosting local economies along the way. And please notice that it is private capitol that would like to invest in this venture. No taxpayer money to be wasted or "slushed". Know what that means?? EVERYONE WOULD BENEFIT - FROM VENTURE CAPITALIST *me through my IRA* TO END PRODUCT USER (cheaper gasoline and diesel because more product would be in the market place) What's not to like??
As for the petrolium sourcine being 'tar sands', this is just a manifistation of the " inorganic/abiotic (google that) petrolium " seeping to the surface. We also in the U.S. have the LaBrae tar sands in southern California. LaBrae has become "untoughable" due to extremest enviornmentalism. Over 70% of the petrolium found in our off shore Pacific waters, when analized, prove to be raw petrolium that has seeped from the floor of the ocean and not sourced from bilges or engins. Mother Earth is pumping out this icky stuff that Mother Earth is manufacturing at the mantel level of the earth core.
We know what to do with it. We should DO IT!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iaglg45lac.
glenn beck - "god punished japan with earthquake, tsunami".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1dxldfxiwu&feature=related.
As Apathetic Agnostics, the saying in our house is, "Mother Nature is a bitch!"
now that it is officially may 15 in my time zone it is my birthday.
happy birthday to me!.
Happy Birthday poppers! 
talley/Judy
she was fine an hour earlier.
we went to bed at 10pm.
she was laying in her bed next to mine.
I'm so sorry for your sudden loss of Alice.
Our wonderful canine and feline companions are never with us 'long enough'.
one of the meanest stories put forth by watchtower psychos is telling children that their beloved pets will never come back resurrected.. not only must the child deal with the trauma of confronting death, the grief of losing a love, and the inability to reason why this happens.... but adults offer no real words of comfort and instead cause more psychological trauma by telling the kid that they can have a pet lion instead.. poor kid doesn't want a pet lion.
he wants fluffy back.
what kind of psych-ops crap is this?
My signature line on other forums I belong to: "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went". author Will Rogers
And even though the idea of "The Rainbow Bridge" is pure fantasy, it is a lovely, consoling fantasy.
what is it with the spate of topics concerning some mythical character from ancient history?.
scrolls discovered recently indicate that noah learned much from his maritime experience and went on to build a fleet of arks which plied the lucrative coastal trade routes in live animal export around the mediterranean and arabian sea routes (as soon as the human and animal populations built up of course).
business was slow at first, but he could see a future in it, if only he could live many hundreds of years.
Thanks for the chuckle this morning , I was in dire need of a good chuckle.
I wonder if part of that 'feeling' is the unintended pleasure of having social contanct and being part of a group/herd. Man actually is a 'herd/pack' animal.
Our situation is that our livlyhood (dairy farmers) kept us really close to home and on a rigid schedule 24/7. Now we are retired and I find myself without any real social contacts. Hubby has 'friends' through farming, guys that rent our land, mechanics, parts people, fuel delivery people, etc.
But I was either in the barn working or in the house preparing meals and cleaning up afterword. I realize now that I have no friends...... mainly because I really was not a friend to anyone..... and it's my very own fault.
So I have seriously been considering going to our local Unitarian 'church' just for the social contact, even though I am an Apathetic Agnostic.
I would not be seeking any 'spiritual enrichment', simply social contact/meeting other people.
Judy
i just thought i'd make up a poll on people's viewpoints of who likes this site better or worse than the .
older one ?.
as for myself, i kind of liked the older one better, its just seems that the usability was better,.
I really like this new forum, so many features and the most important to me - it works with Firefox!!
so i started this thread on another board too.
we have a sizeable number of people - men and women not in a relationship perhaps here.
ladies - what is it that you want in a relationship emotionally, mentally, sexually, and materially ?
Keeping to my acquired "keep it simple stupid" philosophy of life, and reflecting on what has turned out to be most important and most productive in my past marriage and present marriage, I would have to say the quality I most appreciate in a man is KINDNESS.... and next, a ready smile.
Hubby embodies both of these. I recall him bringing me to his dairy farm on our second date. The two farm dogs were delighted to see him, several cats came running and circled his ankles to be petted and when we stood at the cow yard gate the dairy cows came right up to the gate jostling each other for position to get closest to him to learn 'what he was up to' now. And suddenly the light bulb in my head lit up the fact that this is a very kind man. And that fact has been born out through the 34 years I have been privileged to be his wife.
Kindness will effect any and every life scenario one could imagine; basic, everyday, natural kindness.
Judy
