My cousin and I like to exchange emails where we send links to humorous news stories that we find as we are browsing the Internet.  We like to try to “one up” each other when we can.  Well, today my cousin sent me the link to a story from the BBC website about a woman who saw a cat stranded up a tree and tried to rescue it by climbing the tree herself.  Well, the branch she was standing on broke off, and she became stranded herself!  The fire department had to be called to come out and rescue her with their ladder truck.  After all was said and done, the cat got out of the tree without any help at all!

Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under Computers / Software, Family, Internet, Life, News.
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I saw on the today show (I think it was yesterday) a story about how the price of gasoline continuing to rise is going to be causing the price of milk to jump to $6.00 a gallon in very short order! I hope that they are mistaken, milk is already more expensive than soda! It is hard enough to get kids to drink milk INSTEAD of soda because kids prefer the sweetened drinks. But if the price of milk continues to increase, I’m concerned that for economical reasons the parents will be encouraging the kids to be drinking sweetened drinks in place of milk, which could lead to health problems down the road such as obesity and diabetes.

As part of the news story they were showing some new milk cartons that they say will start to show up on the store shelves soon. I’ve already seen them at Costco; they are squarish and a little bit awkward to handle. The newscasters reported that the reason for the switch to the different jugs is because they can stack them tighter in the truck, which reduces the transportation costs. Well, I’m all about reducing costs!

Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under Business, Finances/Money, Food and Beverage, Health, Issues, Life, News, Parenting, Shopping.
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Well, today’s news seems to be largely focused (at least at the moment) on the Supreme Court’s decision to interpret the 2nd amendment to read that individuals DO have the right to own guns.  Apparently there are quite a few cities in the US that have put into place strict laws making it illegal for people to own guns.

I have mixed emotions about this.  I agree that it should be legal for people to own handguns and some rifles for hunting deer/bear/elk/whatever.  But I do think that the larger automatic type of gun that shoots hundreds of bullets a minute has no legitimate place in today’s society.  I understand that there are some city majors out there right now that are unhappy with the Supreme Court’s decision; they are afraid that their crime rate will go up and they will need to hire more police.  That really is a shame, and it is a scary thought.

It certainly is a “loaded” issue!

Posted: June 26th, 2008 under Business, Internet, Issues, Life, News, Online, Sports, Technology.
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It was with mixed emotions that I read the article on the local newspaper’s website that the Vietnamese Pot Bellied pig that has been running loose since early May has been captured.  I had been hoping that the pig would be captured before winter, so I was glad that he has been caught and is now safe and sound.  And I thought it was funny that the bait used to catch him was french fries.  Seems to me you could catch a lot of things using french fries as bait!  What did upset me was reading that the police captured him by baiting him with fries and then using a tazer to stun the little guy.  That made me sad because I have seen television news stories about how much a tazer hurts!  In the long run, however, the guy is caught and is safe, and that is the important thing!

Posted: June 24th, 2008 under Blogs, Computers / Software, Internet, Life, News, Online, Technology.
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I was reading the BBC website about a story about the Supreme Court and a Guantanamo Bay inmate that has challenged why he has been held in Guantanamo Bay without a trial for so long, being classified as an “enemy combatant.”  Apparently this man has proven to the Supreme Court that he is NO an “enemy combatant” and the US is going to have to release him.  Of course, many people are upset about this; I happen to feel that these people should be given some kind of trial, not just thrown into what is essentially a prison of war camp.  I think it is shameful what the US has done during this war.  We CLAIM that we don’t use torture, but we all know torture is used.  Sometimes it is easy to understand how many people can hate the American country.

Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Blogs, Internet, Issues, Life, News, Online, Politics, Technology.
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