TaDa!

We have the candy ready...

And, we've dressed Dead Donna up - not sure yet where she'll play her part...but will decide soon...

Hello, dead Donna...

Hello tooth decay and diabetes....

Boo!

Here's my pumpkin - I settled on a simple pattern - wasn't up to a real intricate one tonight.

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving

The last few days have been busy. The picture is of my pumpkin that I am determined to carve before Halloween. My plan is that tonight, come hell or high water, I will carve it. And, of course, post the picture.

Special Thank You

We had a doggie incident this past Friday evening - and we want to send a very special thank you to our friends - you know who you are - who provided us with much needed support and help. We do appreciate you and thank you so much.

Next Up - Halloween

We're almost ready for Halloween - just need to determine the best way to utilize Dead Donna so the trick or treaters are scared to death. If they don't scream, we haven't done our job. Come by and see us Friday.

Another SNL Skit...Enjoy

She Came, She Spoke, She Rocked!

Just got back from the Obama rally. Wow, Michelle Obama is a great speaker - she delivered a wonderful speech. I tell you, Barack needs to win this election - and if he does we are going to party, party, party. We walked to the rally from our house and it's a wonderful thing to see so many Obama signs around the neighborhood.

The crowd was huge - and so diverse. It shows you how we can come together with the right leader. We need this man and this woman in the White House.

Si se puede! Yes we can!

From MC Yogi

Peanut's Frenzy

This is what happens when you underestimate Peanut. These papers were, I thought, safely placed outside of her reach. I was wrong - she would have had to practically climb onto the desk to get these. Luckily nothing of critical value was shredded.

Backcourt Club Social

Lisa attended the 3rd Annual Backcourt Club Social today to kickstart the UF Women's Basketball season. Miriam was unable to attend due to illness. It was a lot of fun - Coach Butler is very enthusiastic about what she's seen in practice and the excitement of the players. Pictured is an unnamed GPD officer with orange and blue beads around her head.

At the Park

We walked Boxer and Sydney to Northeast Park today. What a gorgeous day for a stroll. We let them off leash in one of the unused ball fields so they could run around and have some fun. Don't worry - Peanut was not left out - she and Lisa had a good walk earlier in the day around the duckpond neighborhood.

Colin Powell Endorses Obama

Michelle is Coming! Michelle is Coming!

Michelle Obama is coming to Gainesville! She'll be at the Hippodrome on Wednesday - she speaks at 2:30pm. Gates open at 1pm.

I'll be there - will you?

Early Voting Starts Tomorrow

Early voting starts Monday, Oct. 20 here in Alachua County. There are a number of constitutional amendments on the ballot. Read this for a little bit more information about the amendments - note that the list of supporters and opponents is often a good mark on whether to support the amendment. Please also note that since this document was prepared amendments 5, 7 and 9 were stricken from the ballot.

Amendment No 2 is very important to me. Please vote NO.

Documentary "Torturing Democracy"

"Torturing Democracy recounts how the Bush White House and the Pentagon decided to make coercive detention and abusive interrogation the official U.S. policy on the war on terror...You'll see and hear some things hard to bear but you'll also meet some government insiders who refused to go along, who stood up and said 'this is wrong.''' – Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, Oct. 10 2008

View the documentary here.

Ssscat!

My friends, let me tell you about an amazing product. We've had constant problems with the dogs scarfing bird seed and other nefarious items under the bird feeder. We tried to spray them with water, blew an air horn (sorry neighbors), we used verbal commands - nothing stopped them from this unwelcome behavior. Until we purchased Ssscat. Ssscat is a can of air with a motion detector. When the dogs got close to the feeder, the air would spray and they would run for the hills. Each dog experienced two sprays - and let me tell you, nary a seed has been eaten since that time. In fact, we've turn it off because we don't need it to spray anymore.

So, if you've had a similar problem - Ssscat might be the answer.

Obama Ad

From McCain's own lips:

Okay, I Like Olbermann

About campaign remarks made by Gov. Palin:

Olbermann on the McCain Campaign Hate

The son of William F. Buckley has decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat.

Read Buckley's statement from The Daily Beast endorsing Obama here. Some quotes:

I’ve read Obama’s books, and they are first-rate. He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine. He is also a lefty. I am not. I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. On abortion, gay marriage, et al, I’m libertarian. I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P.J. O’Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

McCain a Radical?

An editorial from the NY Sun in 2006. An excerpt:

Many years had passed since then, and I bore little animosity for anyone because of what they had done or not done during the Vietnam War.

This is a quote from John McCain in May 2006 during a commencement speech at Columbia College. McCain was recounting the story of one David Ifshin who, in 1970, was a war protester and travelled to Hanoi with Jane Fonda and broadcast remarks over Radio Hanoi. McCain indicated he heard the broadcast while he was a POW. Ifshin was called a traitor at the time. He was accused of being responsible for more American deaths.

McCain stated that he and Ifshin reconciled and later worked together for an organization that promoted human rights in Vietnam.

I came to admire him for his generosity, his passion for his ideals, for the largeness of his heart, and I realized he had not been my enemy, but my countryman . . . my countryman ...and later my friend.

Boy, this story sounds amazingly familiar. But wait, wasn't Ifshin a "radical"?

John McCain - you're a hypocrite.