Happy Together!

For the moment!

Vegas the Labradoodle Model

Vegas Smiling in the Chair

Dogs in the Chair I Am Throwing Out!

Patio From the Back View

White Chicken Chili

Or South-Western Soup...

Cider is his name...

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Brown Labradoodle

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From FLICKR

Colors

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I like the colors on this labradoodle!

Loves to swim

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This is someone from FLICKR with a labradoodle! Vegas wishes he had a pool to swim in like this guy!

Doodle Party

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The Best... Mixed-Breed Dogs

Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92

Parks is fingerprinted in 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus.

Rosa Parks, who helped trigger the civil rights movement in the 1950s, died Monday, her longtime friends told CNN. She was 92. Parks inspired the movement when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955.

Young Singers Spread Racist Hate

Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement
Oct. 20, 2005 — - Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.
They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate.
Known as "Prussian Blue" -- a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes -- the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine.
"We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," said Lynx. "We want our people to stay white ... we don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race."
Lynx and Lamb have been nurtured on racist beliefs since birth by their mother April. "They need to have the background to understand why certain things are happening," said April, a stay-at-home mom who no longer lives with the twins' father. "I'm going to give them, give them my opinion just like any, any parent would."
April home-schools the girls, teaching them her own unique perspective on everything from current to historical events. In addition, April's father surrounds the family with symbols of his beliefs -- specifically the Nazi swastika. It appears on his belt buckle, on the side of his pick-up truck and he's even registered it as his cattle brand with the Bureau of Livestock Identification.
"Because it's provocative," explains April of the cattle brand, "to him he thinks it's important as a symbol of freedom of speech that he can use it as his cattle brand."
Teaching Hate
Songs like "Sacrifice" -- a tribute to Nazi Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuhrer -- clearly show the effect of the girls' upbringing. The lyrics praise Hess as a "man of peace who wouldn't give up."
"It really breaks my heart to see those two girls spewing out that kind of garbage," said Ted Shaw, civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund -- though Shaw points out that the girls aren't espousing their own opinions but ones they're being taught.
On that point, April Gaede and Ted Shaw apparently agree.
"Well, all children pretty much espouse their parents' attitudes," she said. "We're white nationalists and of course that's a part of our life and I'm going to share that part of my life with my children."
Since they began singing, the girls have become such a force in the white nationalist movement, that David Duke -- the former presidential candidate, one-time Ku-Klux-Klan grand wizard and outspoken white supremacist -- uses the twins to draw a crowd.
Prussian Blue supporter Erich Gliebe, operator of one of the nation's most notorious hate music labels, Resistance Records, hopes younger performers like Lynx and Lamb will help expand the base of the White Nationalist cause.
"Eleven and 12 years old," he said, "I think that's the perfect age to start grooming kids and instill in them a strong racial identity."
Gliebe, who targets young, mainstream white rockers at music festivals like this past summer's "Ozzfest," says he uses music to get his message out.
But with names like Blue-Eyed Devils and Angry Aryans, these tunes are far more extreme than the ones sung by Lamb and Lynx.
"We give them a CD, we give them something as simple as a stick, they can go to our Web site and see other music and download some of our music," said Gliebe. "To me, that's the best propaganda tool for our youth."
A Taste for Hate
Gliebe says he hopes that as younger racist listeners mature, so will their tastes for harder, angrier music like that of Shawn Sugg of Max Resist.
One of Sugg's songs is a fantasy piece about a possible future racial war that goes: "Let the cities burn, let the streets run red, if you ain't white you'll be dead."
"I'd like to compare it to gangsta rap," explained Sugg, "where they glorify, you know, shooting n****** and pimping whores."
Sugg shrugs off criticism that music like his should not be handed out to schoolyard children, arguing that "it's just music, it's not like you're handing out AK-47s."
Perhaps not, but Shaw says it's the ideas in the music that are dangerous.
"When you talk about people being dead if they're not white," said Shaw, "I don't think there is much question that that is hateful."
A Place to Call Home
Despite the success of Prussian Blue and bands like Max Resist within the White Nationalism movement, most Americans don't accept their racist message.
Like many children across the country, Lamb and Lynx decided to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina -- the white ones.
The girls' donations were handed out by a White Nationalist organization who also left a pamphlet promoting their group and beliefs -- some of the intended recipients were more than a little displeased.
After a day of trying, the supplies ended up with few takers, dumped at a local shop that sells Confederate memorabilia.
Last month, the girls were scheduled to perform at the local county fair in their hometown. But when some people in the community protested, Prussian Blue was removed from the line-up.
But even before that, April had decided that Bakersfield was not "white" enough, so she sold her home, and hopes that she and the girls can find an all-white community in the Pacific Northwest.
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MJ's Dora Playroom

Ashley's Kids

lacey is a teapot...

short and stout
here is her handle
here is her spout

Ten On Tuesday-10 Favorite People from History

10 Favorite People from History
....in no particular order

1.) Leonardo da Vinci
2.) Charles Darwin
3.) Rapheal
4.) John F Kennedy
5.) Margaret Sanger
6.) Jane Addams
7.) Susan B. Anthony
8.) Martin Luther King Jr.
9.) Douglas MacArthur
10.)F. Scott Fitzgerald

My Long-lost friend Terry Baldwin & her kids

Sterner's Nevada Deer

Nevada Deer
27+ kicker goes to 29+
Oct 12, 2005
Kimber Montana - 260 AI

how will you die???

i just saw this and tried it, it said i would get into a car that looked like mine, but would be rigged with a bomb. great i will die just like dylan's dad on 90210, luckily his was a hoax.

find out for yourself! http://thedeathpsychic.com

Drug agents can't keep up with pot growers

By John Ritter, USA TODAYThu Oct 13, 6:34 AM ET

In the waning days of a record season, a helicopter buzzes treetops here in a remote corner of the "Emerald Triangle," redwood country notorious as the USA's premier producer of marijuana. (Photo gallery: Rooting out pot hot spots)
State narcotics officers from CAMP - Campaign Against Marijuana Planting - are searching for "gardens" to eradicate and find six on a warm, cloudless day.
They strap onto a 150-foot cable dangling from the chopper, drop into the pot patches, hack down the plants and bundle them for the chopper to haul back to a landing zone.
Perhaps $500,000 worth of America's favorite illegal drug is trucked off for burial. It's not a big day by CAMP standards: 813 plants that fill a pickup bed. In this ever-growing illicit market, agents routinely find plots of 5,000 and 10,000 plants that require dump trucks to dispose of.
In the 2005 growing season, CAMP says it so far has destroyed more plants than ever - 1.1 million worth $4.5 billion on the street, up from 621,000 plants last year. But agents still lost ground to growers. No longer is marijuana cultivation the cottage industry that flourished in the 1960s and '70s after waves of counterculture migrants bought cheap land in the northern California mountains and grew pot for their own use and extra income.
Mexican criminals using sophisticated methods have spread the marijuana industry across California, traditionally the nation's main domestic source because of a mild climate and vast stretches of isolated landscape ideal for clandestine growing, say the authorities.
As recently as 10 years ago, the Emerald Triangle counties of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity grew virtually all of the state's pot. Now every California county that's not desert has a problem. Because of tighter security on the southern U.S. border, Mexicans simply made a business decision to move north.
"In the last two or three years almost 100% of the gardens we've eradicated are Mexican drug cartel gardens," says James Parker, the senior narcotics agent who oversees CAMP. "It's alarming if you think about it."
Today's high potency weed is so valuable - $5,000 or more for a pound of buds on the East Coast - that big operators employ armed guards who camp in pot gardens for months, nurturing plants that grow to 15 feet and taller. A state Fish and Game officer was wounded and a suspect shot and killed in a Santa Clara County bust in June, the fourth incident in two years.
Scarring the landscape
There would be more violence if growers weren't able to flee at the sound of a helicopter looking for gardens, says Jack Nelsen, CAMP's regional operations commander here. "This time of year, they won't go far -- the plants are worth too much," he says. "If we don't come back soon enough they'll be in there harvesting until we do."
Fishermen and hikers stumble onto armed men in the woods who threaten them and demand that they leave. Pot-growing has become epidemic both on privately owned timber tracts and public lands in California, including national forests and parks.
"A lot of terrain is so rugged and dense with foliage you wouldn't think about taking your family to those areas," Parker says. "It's amazing how much work these Mexicans put in to get a crop out."
Growers scar the landscape by crudely terracing hillsides that erode under winter rain. They spill pesticides, fertilizer and diesel fuel used to power generators that run extensive drip-irrigation systems. They dam creeks for water sources, plant salsa gardens, disfigure trees and leave behind tons of garbage, human waste and litter.
"They'll pour fertilizer right into a stream, then irrigate out of it," says Alexandra Picavet, a Sequoia National Park ranger. "That creates algae blooms, hurts fish and animals and contaminates downstream." Since 2001, officers have destroyed 105 pot gardens covering 181 acres in the park but have had enough money to clean up fewer than half the sites. "We think that for every one we've been able to eradicate, there's another one out there," Picavet says.
CAMP's critics equate the program with Prohibition in the 1930s.
"Look at the amount of economic value we're destroying," says Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. "This could be legally taxed and regulated and we could all be making money off it. We never saw this lawlessness until there were drug laws and CAMP." NORML estimates that Californians' pot consumption could yield at least $250 million a year in sales taxes.
Gieringer also says that, despite the government's assertion, there is no evidence that Mexican cartels are involved in the cultivation.
Roger Rodoni is a cattle rancher and registered Republican who has represented a conservative district in Humboldt County - conservative by local standards, anyway - on the board of supervisors since 1997. He calls CAMP "an exercise in futility."
"It's a vast expenditure of public funds that for all practical purposes does no good," Rodoni, 65, says. Demand for marijuana keeps growing, and CAMP has done little to stem the supply, he says. As evidence he points to a drop in the price of "the quality stuff'" from $6,000 a pound a few years ago to $3,000 today.
A June report for Taxpayers for Common Sense by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron found that despite billions of dollars spent on marijuana suppression - nearly $4 billion by the federal government in 2004 alone - usage is about the same as 30 years ago.
CAMP, an arm of the state attorney general's office, was formed in 1983 to help understaffed local authorities ferret out large-scale marijuana crops grown for profit, particularly in isolated areas far from roads where helicopters were needed. Five eradication teams deployed in different regions of the state operated this year on a $1.1 million budget, about three-quarters of it supplied by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
CAMP agents, with help from local sheriff's deputies and loaners from the National Guard, the state forestry department, the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service, have arrested 42 suspects, seized 76 weapons and raided 742 gardens.
But CAMP has made little headway penetrating and prosecuting the Mexican hierarchies allegedly behind most of the busted gardens. "They're similar to al-Qaeda, they're cells," says Sgt. James "Rusty" Noe of the Mendocino County sheriff's office. "We go out and find some guy in the garden and we arrest him, he's not going to know anything."
Since last year, two CAMP investigative teams have concentrated on tracking the Mexican drug bosses, and arrests have been made in Fresno and Redding. Parker says he'll ask for three more investigative units for 2006.
CAMP teams start reconnaissance flights in early spring as growers are preparing gardens - clearing land, setting up water systems, hauling in supplies and setting up campsites. When agents see a garden from the helicopter they fix its location with GPS.
Growers adapt to surveillance
Seizures have risen dramatically because of more aggressive air surveillance and larger gardens. But growers have adapted, CAMP's Nelsen says. They used to plant uniform plots in open ground - marijuana thrives in full sunlight - but those were easily spotted, even from an airplane at 5,000 feet.
Now gardens are tucked under the forest canopy, often on steep slopes, and strung out along hillside contours so they're much harder to see. Growers expect many of their gardens to be busted, so they put as many plants in the ground in as many locations as they can.
"It's a lot like what they do on the border," Parker says. "They'll try to send 70 cars through thinking a few are going to get picked off and that it's a cost of doing business."
These days, other counties have eclipsed the Emerald Triangle in confiscated marijuana. Shasta County led the state as of last week, according to CAMP figures: 209,864 plants eradicated compared with 52,133 all of last year.
The Central Valley counties of Tulare and Fresno, two of the nation's biggest agricultural producers, now rank No. 2 and 4. Mendocino had the fifth most plants seized, and Humboldt has slipped to No. 12. CAMP doesn't operate in California's two most populous counties, Los Angeles and San Diego, because authorities there have ample resources to go after marijuana themselves, Parker says.
"The Mexicans have basically found out how easy it is to find locations and find people to work these gardens," Nelsen says. "These organizations are even moving into some of the eastern counties in snow country."
Cultivation of medical marijuana, legalized by California voters in 1996, has expanded the supply, particularly from indoor production, and complicated efforts to crack down on the illegal market.
CAMP doesn't bother with medical marijuana growers, even large ones who say they're providing pot to many sick people. "We're not here to take anyone's medicine away," Nelsen says.
But medical marijuana has made it harder to figure out who the bad guys are, Noe says. The law left it up to counties and cities to set guidelines. Some have zero tolerance for medical marijuana; others have set limits on the number of plants. Mendocino County is wide open.
"The amount of marijuana cultivated in this county almost doubled because anybody can grow it in their backyard," Noe says. "The criminal element has taken advantage of the law."
Mendocino County started going after pot growers in the early 1980s after a spate of violence. Six deputy sheriffs, a sergeant, a legal secretary and an evidence technician operated on a $500,000 budget, Noe says. Today, it's Noe, a deputy and a $300,000 budget.
But with CAMP's help, the cops are more effective, he says, more than doubling the number of plants destroyed in the county compared with early years.
And each of those plants carries a lot more kick today. No more of the baggies with stems and seeds that baby boomers remember from their college days. Growers learned to "sex" the plants - cull the males early in the season to deny the females pollination and prevent buds from going to seed.
In a futile effort to attract pollen, the female plants produce more and more THC, the active ingredient and the source of marijuana's "high." The plant's buds get fatter and fatter. By September, they're sticky with THC and ready to harvest. "Back in the '60s and '70s the stuff imported from Mexico, there wasn't much bud to it," Noe says. "If it was good quality maybe the THC was 5%."
Tests nowadays find THC content as high as 21%, he says.

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blossom's baby

By Charlie Amter
Blossom has blossomed indeed.
All grown up former child star Mayim Bialik has given birth to a baby boy, her publicist confirmed to E! Thursday.
The child, born Tuesday in Los Angeles, is the first for Bialik and husband Michael Stone. Her rep would not divulge the name or vital statistics of the newborn, but did say both baby and mom are doing "fine."
Until recent appearances on Showtime's Fat Actress and HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bialik, now 29, had been keeping a relatively low profile in Hollywood since the demise of Blossom a decade ago, focusing instead on her education--and what she described to People magazine as a "rebellious phase."
Of course, "rebellious" is all relative. Bialik made those comments just before she graduated from UCLA in 2000; she subsequently went on to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience, where she met Stone, a fellow student.
Bialik's breakout role came as a young Bette Midler in the 1988 film Beaches. She followed that up with guest stints on The Facts of Life, Murphy Brown, MacGyver, Empty Nest and Doogie Howser, M.D. before landing what became her best known role as the spunky, wisecracking teen Blossom on the 1991-95 NBC sitcom that costarred Joey Lawrence and Jenna von Oy.
Aside from a recurring role on The John Larroquette Show, Bialik spent the rest of the decade mostly doing voiceover work for such shows as Hey Arnold!, Recess, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest and more recently, Kim Possible.
Bialik upped her profile in March by cameoing as herself in two episodes of Fat Actress opposite Kirstie Alley. Two weeks ago, she appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing Jodi Funkhouser, a lesbian who briefly becomes straight and then becomes gay again--all due to Larry David's meddling.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20051014/en_celeb_eo/17575&printer=1

MJ with Pumpkins

Both Looking At Cam At the Same Time?

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How Can this be?

Both Looking At Cam At the Same Time?

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No Way!

Bristol Looking Up High to the Sky!

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Action Dogs

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Vegas Smiling

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Check out his collar!

Tongues Hanging

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Serious Vegas In His Fav Chair

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Wanted to show everyone just how BIG Mr. Vegas is now!

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

15% Yankee

10% Dixie

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Kate Aboard the RCL's Navigator of the Seas

I did not know she went on a cruise with Dale Jr!

Jackson Falls in Throng Outside Theater

Michael Jackson fell to the ground as he tried to make his way through a throng of hundreds of fans outside the Victoria Palace theater, where he watched the stage version of the movie "Billy Elliot."
Security staff forced a path for Jackson, 47, through the admirers and photographers standing outside the theater so he could reach the front door. But the singer fell in the commotion.
At the performance, Jackson mingled with other spectators, chatting and signing autographs.
"He talked to us saying hello and there were a lot of people around him," said Roxanne Wisenberg, 47, of San Diego. "He was very nice and his children were with him."
Jackson was in London to work on recording a song to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims. He was staying at the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, where fans gathered outside in hopes of seeing him.
The visit to Britain was believed to be his first since his acquittal in June of child molestation charges. He has spent much of his time in Bahrain. The visit to Britain was believed to be his first since his acquittal in June of child molestation charges. He has spent much of his time in Bahrain.

lacey's new car, uhhh i mean top

at least it was done today, since it is finally raining. it is sooo quiet in the car now that it has a window. amazing. oh, next up wheel covers, more than one that is.

Way Too Much Celebrity News Today!

Ok
1st it was Nick and Jessica Split
2nd it was Jessica is preggers
Now This!!!
TomKitten?
Has the world gone crazy today ...? First Lindsay's car crash, then the Nick and Jessica split story ... and now we have word that TomKat are pregnant?! How much is Tom Cruise paying Katie Holmes to take their stunt this far?!?

From People.com: Tom Cruise's fiancée, Katie Holmes, is pregnant with the couple's child, Cruise's spokesperson, Lee Anne DeVette, tells PEOPLE exclusively ... "Tom and Katie are very excited, and the entire family is very excited," says DeVette. [thanks Claudia]

$10 bucks says they name it L. Ron Cruise if it's a boy or Scientologia Hubbard-Cruise if it's a girl.

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A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM CHRIS CAGLE October 3rd, 2005

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM CHRIS CAGLE October 3rd, 2005

To All My Loyal Music Fans:

"As many of you are aware, I had been anxiously awaiting the addition of a new baby to my life. The baby has been born and both mother and child are in good health. Since the birth, however, we have discovered that biologically, the child is not mine.

As excited as I was about becoming a new father, my disappointment is equally as strong. So out of respect for all that are involved, please allow this situation to remain private and know that I will not be commenting further on this very personal matter. I'm thanking you in advance for your kind cooperation and understanding."


Chris Cagle

DLISTED

cook out at dannielle's