Missouri

Does your dog bounce all over the couch to bark at people when they walk by the house?

Does your dog barge past you when you open the door to your yard? Does your dog take your spot on the couch and not give it back? Does he tell you know when it is time to eat and play and go for a walk?

Guess what? Your dog doesn’t just think he’s the leader of your household — he knows he’s the boss, the leader of the pack, because you may be unwittingly sending him messages that he is the leader of your family.

You are not alone. My family’s two dogs were getting away with every behavior listed above and more by being very sweet, naughty and ever so persistent.

(Read the full post about ‘Dr. Elizabeth Bradt: Taming the overly pampered pooch’…)

So Brock Lesnar made some history over the weekend as he became the first person to be the WWE and a UFC Champion. Congratulations to Lesnar on handling his business and TKO’ing the MMA legend Randy Couture.

But, with this said, I have some words of caution for UFC president Dana White and the entire UFC: The Lesnar win hurts the organization’s credibility.

Shocking? Not really — Lesnar made his name as a professional wrestler. The WWE is not competition. The UFC has done a good job of marketing Lesnar, but they have done so off of his professional wrestling pedigree.

(Read the full post about ‘The Wrestling Genius: Lesnar pulls off unusual feat’…)

LOS ANGELES -

Stephenie Meyer has the story of her vampire dream down pat: It happened on June 2, 2003, it contained a complicated but coherent conversation and when she woke up, she just had to know what was going to happen next. So she wrote it down. Then Meyer, who had no ambitions for a writing career, just kept writing. The much-anticipated film adaptation of “Twilight” – the first of four books in her series – opens Friday.

Did you write the books with a teen audience in mind?

No. I had a very specific audience, and it was a 29-year-old mother of three.

(Read the full post about ‘Interview with the vampire lady: Stephenie Meyer on ‘Twilight’’…)

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -

A meat mystery has those who live and walk near the Town Centre in Framingham, Mass., perplexed.

For the past four weeks, once a week, someone has dumped meat on the Centre, said Chris Walsh of nearby Vernon Street.

And, it wasn’t a small amount of meat, or rotting meat, he said. Rather, it was large hunks of meat that appeared to be recently purchased at a grocery store.

"It seems very odd," said Walsh, a Precinct 7 Town Meeting member. "There are some very big pieces and they are arriving in one particular spot on the town common for four weeks running.

(Read the full post about ‘Mysterious meat has residents baffled’…)

Being a painter and a poet, I began a few years ago to write parallel poems for some of my artwork. This has helped me see my painting in a new way, and gave me a greater understanding of the ideas and emotion behind the paintings.

Some of the poems are serious, and others are simply whimsical. But in either case, I was forced to reconsider my purpose in creating the visual image. I also learned that not only can words enhance the image, but they bring out unrealized facets of the art.

One of my inspirations for this exercise was the work of D.G. Rossetti (1828-1882), the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter.

(Read the full post about ‘A.S. Maulucci: Poets have long explored their work through painting’…)

V-Dare:  Philadelphia Inquirer Proclaims Era Of White Guilt Over

Jonathan Valania will never have another word in the Inquirer ever again.

Drudge:  Democrats prepare to move forward with investigations of Bush administration…

Republicans look to register a URL named moveon.org, only to find that it has been taken for years.

KSDK:  Palin urges GOP governors to keep Democrats honest

In order to be “kept honest,” they have to be honest to begin with.

WBBM-CBS-2 Chicago:  Mayor Daley: Prepare For Mass Layoffs

“The only way around this is if we had a President from Chicago, errr…,” Daley was overheard saying.

AP:  Prince Charles turns 60 waiting for throne

Yeah, he’s really suffering.

NPR:  Gov.

(Read the full post about ‘Have Fun, Dear. Twenty Turns to Sixty In Really Short Order.’…)

Politico:

Klain accepts job as Biden chief of staff

Ronald A.

(Read the full post about ‘Settling Comfortably into the Number Two Role’…)

Reuters:

Resort plans nude “anything goes” party

CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian holiday resort will hold a month-long, nude “anything goes” party to combat an expected economic downturn, media reports said on Thursday.

“Tough economic times call for stiff measures,” Tony Fox, the owner of the White Cockatoo resort in Mossman, in tropical Queensland state, told the Courier-Mail newspaper.

(snip)

Australia’s tourism in industry is being hit hard by global economic turmoil with official figures showing a 7.6 percent decline in overseas visitors in September.

Sure, because any industry that is being “hit hard” in a climate of “downturn” does require “stiff” measures, so that a place called “Cock”atoo can survive.

Schlafly:

The Catholic Connection to Barack Obama

Do you wonder why 2008 election data show that the majority of Catholics voted for Barack Obama even though his record as Illinois State Senator proves him the most pro-abortion candidate who ever ran for President?

No, I don’t wonder, because I know the answer:

Hispanics.

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KOLR-CBS-10 Springfield:

(Springfield, MO) — The economy may be sinking, but gun sales are up significantly.  Part of that has to do with deer hunting season beginning in a few days.

But there’s another group of consumers buying up guns in droves.  Gun stores have seen their sales spike since the election.

A lot of those consumers say they’re worried about a Democratically-controlled government taking away their right to buy and carry guns.  So they’re jumping the gun, before the next administration takes office.

That’s a common canard in the media.  While I think it’s partly true, I tend to avoid monocasual explanations for sociocultural phenomenon.  I think a better, but more taboo, explanation (though it does not automatically mean that the fear of new Federal legislation is not a cause) is that whites are fearing a gradual increase in arrogance-driven black-on-white hate crimes and wildings, based on the “we’z takin’ over honkey” mentality, with one of their own about to become President.

Some say they’re also worried Governor-Elect Jay Nixon may try to repeal Missouri’s conceal and carry legislation.

(Read the full post about ‘The 95th General Assembly Might Have Other Ideas’…)