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A couple of months ago, a rescue group was informed of many dogs that were for sale. Upon investigation, they found that over 150 dogs had been transported from a puppymill in Idaho to a ‘dog broker’ in the Mt. Rainier area. This individual was selling them to anyone with money in their hands.
The rescue group managed to get 26 dogs away from this place. Seventeen were brought to Furbaby Rescue, 13 Coton de Tulears, and 4 Shih Tzu. The call for foster care went out, and all these precious souls found a place to recover, and start learning what being a dog really is. First step was taking them to the groomer, and get shaved down. Next was the vetting...over $7000 in vetting was spent, exams, neuter/spay/shots/microchip/dental...many treated for massive ear infections. Fortunately they were all young 1-3 years old and luckily they did not have any truly horrible illnesses or major disabilities. Their disability was their behavior; turning a puppymill dog into a happy adjusted dog is a lot of work.
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Form/Space Atelier Exhibit August 14- Sep 6, 2009

Show Title: Outskirts

Show Duration: August 14- September 6, 2009

Opening Reception August 14, 6PM as part of the Belltown ArtWalk; www.belltownartwalk.com

Outskirts is a site-specific infiltration using photographs and a kiosk to narrate a previous site-specific exhibit by Rebsom developed during a residency at the Ucross Foundation in a Montana prairie dog metropolis. Outskirts is Rebsom's first solo show at Form/Space Atelier and her second show at Form/Space ATelier overall. Portland-based Rebsom is the recipient of the Jan Zach Award for excellence in sculpture and the AAA Dean's Fellowship Award from the University of Oregon, where she received her MFA.


Eric Kellogg II comments on Paula Rebsom:

My favorite show in Portland this year (2006) was Paula Rebsom at the Tilt Gallery. Her work is amazing. She brings a whole new flair to photography. Her photographs were of massive wood structures, cut out in the shape of wolves. Honestly, you have to see the work. It reminds me of Bev Doolittle—when I was younger, I would spend hours gazing at my mother's Doolittle collection. When I saw Rebsom's work I had to keep coming back, sometimes twice a day. In my opinion, Paula Rebsom is the Bev Doolittle of the contemporary photography world.

Jeff Jahn comments on Paula Rebsom:

Probably the best local show up is "When I can't be here, I go there" at Tilt gallery (run by PORT's own Jenene Nagy, I just can't ignore this gem, which comes on the heels of several other decent to good shows). In addition, "WICBTIGT" is the auspicious debut of recent University of Oregon MFA grad Paula Rebsom who seems to have become ten times the artist she was 6 months ago. With just two large format images Rebsom constructs impressive somewhat pensive scenes of moody artifice but it's the little touches that win the day here, including the conceptual installation.

What I like here is that unlike Gregory Crewdson and to a lesser extent Thomas Demand, Rebsom's scenes are studies in revealed staging and rather spoiled artifice.

It is a nice installation as the two photos (one is a front yard, the other is of the back yard) seem to long for one another's phoniness… its like Breakfast at Tiffanies only with Joan Crawford as Holly and Mickey Rooney cast as Paul "Fred" Varjak not the intolerable landlord. That effect would be icky but you would have to watch that trainwreck.

Back to the photos, the house itself seems to be a non-entity, a prop for the props which sets up some nice rythms for the rest of the show. Also, like Ad Reinhardt paintings they need to be seen in person as tiny internet images can't possibly provide enough detail or contrast to represent them well. It is a nice touch of phoniness that demands there be no subsitutes.

The front yard photo, "North Dakota Badlands," sports a tiny dandelion in the extreme foreground, which highlights the simple and artificial cutout steppes in front of the ranch house and in "Howling Coyote" we can practically hear the yelping of a film foley that will never be added to this acknowledged contrivance. It's all chicanery and there is something refreshingly honest about the gloom here. Apparently all of it was accomplished with existing lighting, yet it hardly feels like an indie filmmaker's work and more like a darker and still cousin to Terry Gilliam's strange film, The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen.

In the crowded genre of cinematic and staged large format photography Rebsom has come right out of school with something to say of her own. It isnt behind the scenes but its rather refreshing that she doesnt try to delight her audience so much as not make any promises that her work can't keep. For me it delivered more. By Jeff Jahn, October 11, 2006.

Paula Rebsom comments on her work:

Outskirts

I could hear the prairie dogs barking miles before I arrived in their desolate town 5 miles down a dirt road from Ucross, Wyoming, population 25. As I got out of my vehicle to survey the location for a new suburban development, a family of pronghorn circled me curiously and marked their territory along the way. The road I walked along was littered with bullet casings. The prairie dogs continued to bark as they scattered to their burrows for safety. As they disappeared into their extensive network of underground tunnels a ghostly stillness settled over the town. All that remained were a few bleached prairie dog skulls and scat that I found lying next to their burrows.

All this was very familiar to me having grown up in western North Dakota. As a young girl I thought prairie dogs were cute animals you fed crackers to, as a teenager I shot them for sport (an act I am not proud of), and as a young adult I educated people on the importance of prairie dogs in the ecosystem as a ranger for Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Although prairie dogs are small and seemingly harmless animals they are quite controversial. Farmers and ranchers see them as competition for acreage and their burrows as a danger to livestock. Ecologists consider them a keystone species playing a central role in the survival of many endangered species that prey on them or use their burrows for nesting.

This new suburban development I scouted on the 22,000-acre ranch that houses the Ucross Foundation was not for humans, but rather for the prairie dogs themselves. I constructed 85 small house facades, each with its own set of pleated curtains, to be placed in a very active portion of a prairie dog town. Over the course of three days, I staked one house behind each existing burrow, creating a visual map of the prairie dog town. For the remainder of my stay I spent the mornings and early afternoons (when prairie dogs are most active) observing their interactions with this new development. Instead of embracing this new suburban utopia, the prairie dogs abandoned the heart of the town. Only the young, naive ones remained in the homes on the outskirts.

The installation in the prairie dog town on the Ucross ranch combined elements of urban sprawl, homesteads, and ghost towns. My role fluctuates between that of a rancher, a deputy, and a park ranger, leaving room for an ambiguous narrative to form within the sequence of images. In the Outskirts project I explored my own personal relationship with these animals and also created a domestic paradox of human and animal relationships that balances on the edge of absurdity. The images act as historical documents, offering a different perspective in the complex relationships that we have developed with animals and nature.

Andersen et al vs. King County in 2004 led to SB5688 and to Referendum Measure 71.

To touch this case, the first impulse is to run like Hell and one that all should heed. But we can’t. Why not? It has become the law. Looking therein, we find it consist of three components:

One, it begins with a lie. The foundation is sinking, shifting sand. To say that a union between same sex is a healthy, normal existence is for the birds. Yet, no one, and I mean, no one challenges it. Look at it. The only thing constant is spoilt brats screaming, "Because I’m gay, I deserve to be married," and why? Greed for money is number one and then using a law to remove all opposition.

What happened to all were born with the sense it takes to recognize a lie and to know a sucker when we see one? Looking at a case that's known. David Serkin and Michael Poole featured in the Seattle Times said for years that David stayed home while Mike worked. Yet, they swore in court that David was the wage earner and an honest man? Why lie? To impress the judge that a rabbi is gay? Yuk! Only strong delusions could cause one to do such or else high on drugs or booze.

The second component: To follow their line of reasoning enters the realm of insanity. How so? It begins with emotions and all know that emotions are fickle and ends with, "Why is everybody always picking on me?" To be rational, one must preface his words with either sound judgment, the law, a proverb or something solid upon which to stand; otherwise, senseless ramblings. Furthermore, an emotional appeal or childhood trauma not admissible in a court of law, but Andersen was nothing but --

And third, the burnings of Hell is felt. You get burnt on every page, especially, in the judges’ decrees. Why there? No unity, no justice, nor domestic tranquility therein. It’s as if a fire dog was darting about keeping the flames of Hell raging.

Oh, the subject is taboo, but the thought surfaces, "Who’d do what they do?" Now a picture is worth a thousand words, but looks can be deceiving, eh? Well, it’s hard to believe that some of the Plaintiffs would go there. Some must for a woman got a kidney infection at a party and died. So who or what caused it? Should someone be hung for murder or was it just suicide?

How shall we fight this thing and win? George Washington said that we would not win the Revolution by military prowess nor manpower, but by sound reasoning and unanswerable doctrine.

Next, the bible says, "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, (an old child is 21), he will not depart from it." Flip the coin: Catholics used to say, "Give me a child until he’s seven years old and he’ll be a catholic for life."

Train in what way? God told the angels, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I’m going to do? --- For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep THE WAY OF THE LORD, TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGMENT, ---." As Abraham’s descendants, can we do otherwise?

The President says: "Spend "quality time" with your kids, help with their homework, and read to them every day?" Will that suffice?

Deuteronomy 6:4-:9: Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day (Ten Commandments), shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

The first three on the right and seven on the left of gate or door post. The same on the front and back of you bracelets and frontlets. In other words, training is a 24/7 proposition with the 10 Commandments kept before their faces constantly, eh?

Ann Landers said that her parent’s bedroom was at one end of the house and theirs at the other. Jesus tells of a man who was in bed with his wife and kids. Maybe a smaller floor plan works best, eh? Ann and Abby got into things they had no business doing. And due to lack of supervision, eh? After marriage and children and divorced; when Abby came, Ann wrote, "Being back with Abby was heavenly," or something to that effect.

This confirms that habits learnt in childhood are not easily broken and how important it is to train up a child 24/7. One began preaching that woman came from the man’s rib and wasn’t satisfied until back there and hair was given for her glory and such like. My Dad warned that such talk would get things started, especially, amongst them teenagers, that he couldn’t stop. And so it did.

Well, I can understand where Ann Landers was coming from, but I don’t approve nor condone it. And she had no business publishing such nor promoting such and those spared such in childhood should‘ve called her hand.

Please, note, that only Jews, Catholics, and Calvinist sued for same sex marriages. Knowing their religion explains why, but that does not excuse them nor justify their deeds. And, folks, the extended family takes the most abuse off these as the documents show. Like dripping drops of water that breaks the hardest rock, they continually grind into their faces their perversions until all resistance ceases.

At a seminar on AIDS and Dying, the question was raised: "What if the dead had requested no service nor memorial?"

I’d just about had it with this nonchalant, let it all hang out, anything goes, there’s no consequences to our actions, no connection to the past, the present, nor the future, and raise no objection to anything sexual philosophy. It was so bad that Sanders, an atheist, cremated and buried the ashes of his partner in parts unknown to keep his catholic family from sanctifying the ground. What harm if they did? Oh, the drippings of spite, meanness, and jealousy. This strangle-hold possessiveness is all about me, myself, and I; us and no more!"

I told them, "No man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself. When I was sick and unable to handle my affairs, I thank God someone pitched in to do it. When dead, somebody else has gotta make the decisions. The next time these guys come through, I’d suggest they get into a family they can get along with. In the meantime, learn to live with the givens."

A woman spoke up and said, "When the doctor said my brother was brain dead from a car accident, it fell our lot with his wife to decide to disconnect the tubes or not." You could just see her recoiling, "And, I’d wish that task on no one."

The rabbi seemed to come out of his stupor and rose to say, "I don’t care what the deceased wanted, I have more respect for a man’s soul than that and would hold a service."

The Plaintiffs say they want "Civil Rights," when there’s not a decent one amongst the whole lot. How can you demand "rights" when not even civil? Let’s keep the record straight: Is it rights or is it greed they want?

Rules of civility and decent behavior demand that you NEVER discuss family matters outside the four walls, but these drag their dirty laundry out for the world to see and the vultures to feed upon. And why? Just to gloat over trampling them underfoot or to suck for pity? And you NEVER speak evil of the dead and a dead man’s testimony stands. But, no, we trample anything they said underfoot, eh? And NEVER bring a reproach upon yourself or others? Have these rules been rescinded?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott started women’s rights in 1839. Her dad, Judge Cady, begged her to give up such nonsense. She stubbornly refused and at about 3 am, he cried and said, "I would to God you had waited until I was dead before coming out with this stuff." How many would turn over in their graves if they knew what these Plaintiffs were doing?

In objection to a dog show, I told the preacher he knew better than to carry on such bull-- in the house of God." He replied, "Oh, sister, what word just came out of your mouth. Your testimony will never be effective." I wasn’t through with him, but I knew I had to use bible or else he’d spew it out and what I mentioned was trivial compared to the other atrocities. I said, "The bible says it’s a shame for a man to have long hair and you know better than to let a long haired hippie wearing a Playboy necktie take part in the services." (Black with a pink bunny at the end.) His son-in-law and assistant pastor. Another Tobiah with Nehemiah, eh?

He sighed, "Oh, sister, long hair is just a phase." Well, then, let the creep stay outta the pulpit until he gets through this rebellious phase, eh? And don't prolong the agony for a case of salvation works wonders instantly! "And my daughter got him that tie while at Disney World." Playboy allowed to sell his wares at a kid’s amusement park?

As I walked down the hill toward the bus, I moaned, "Lord, if you can’t use the bible for a standard, what then?" The thought came to mind: "Consenteth not to wholesome words?" What did that mean?

1 Timothy 6:3-- says, "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that which tendeth unto godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about -- Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself." I believe that is self-explanatory and "Here I stand and can do no other," as Martin Luther said.

Last, our founders used four words interchangeably: Conscience, religion, thought and reason. So is SB 5688 an infringement upon freedom of personal convictions? It is since it forces me to accept same sex couples as mine equal and rewrites the dictionary in order to construe all gender specific terms as neutral to allow them to play house without condemnation and makes it a crime to speak against them.

Thomas Jefferson wrote to Lafayette that such a religious law existed in VA, but that society would not tolerate the enforcement thereof; but, he said, as long as it was on the books, it’d be a torment to those most likely effected.

Benjamin Franklin said if one were to introduce basic Christianity into society, it would turn the world around. What’s basic Christianity if not honesty (no lying, no stealing) and morals with the first being sexual? What about modesty? Temperance? If this is the definition, here goes.

But, folks, any claim brought against sodomy be it bible, law, history, tradition, society, or nature is knocked down by the gay community. How so? It goes like this. Remember Mark Sidran’s anti-homeless bull? Honey buckets put up all over and Gary Locke, King County Executive, had a sign outside the front door of the administration building that read: Private property. No trespassing. With an outhouse next to it. Can you believe?

I told the assistant chief of police that public property meant just that and that you couldn’t lock the parks at night nor forbid any of us from using public facilities and forcing mothers with children to use a honey bucket with no paper and no running water was criminal. He gave excuses and everything kosher, per him.

At the end, I pushed the Constitution off the table, saying, "Okay, you say that’s no longer in effect and we’ll get rid of that." Pushing the bible off the other end, "And, per you, to Hell with the bible." Then with folded hands and calmly, "Okay, you won’t go by the Bible and you won’t go by the Constitution, so what in the Hell are we gonna go by?" (The law is of the head, reason of the heart.) I lost grip and holding my head in my cupped hands, I moaned, "Mike, I can’t stand a lawless existence." Looking up at him and begging, "Please, tell me, Mike, WHAT -- ARE -- THE -- RULES? Have they been written down? I'm a big girl and can take the givens in life. Let me have the book so I can get it straight."

He sighed as he turned aside, "LaCrese, I don’t know if you intended to or not, but you sure give a man a lot to think about."

Enough is enough. To all, have a good day.

I am LaCreseGreen@cs.com of Seattle, WA.

A News investigation has uncovered what appears to be the appalling treatment of animals being killed for their fur in China.

The investigators filmed animals that were kicking and writhing as workers ripped their skin from their bodies. If the animals struggled too much, workers stood on the animals' neck Or they beat the animals' heads with knife handles until the creatures stopped moving.

It's also a very slow process, and they usually start from the feet(paw)-up, giving the animal plenty of time to endure the pain. After their fur was peeled, the animals' bodies were tossed into a pile like so much trash, Most still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog, tossed onto a heap of carcasses; it had enough strength to lift its bloodied head and stare into the camera.

it raised its head, blinked with its remaining eyelashes and then lay its head down to continue dying for anything from 2-3 Hours.

Be a witness and watch the video at http://www.acscct.org


YOU CAN HELP!
1.You can donate to animals charities
2.DO NOT BUY ANY FUR PRODUCTS
3.Spread the word, be voice of these animals. Forward this video to as many people as you can so that they can contribute also

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Scare up a howling good time with treats and activities for the whole family, including the canine members, at the free Boo in Burien Saturday, Oct. 31. From noon to 5 p.m., unearthly entertainments, ranging from pumpkin bowling and trick-or-treating to Wiener Dog Races, will materialize in downtown Burien.

Bring the little monsters out for trick-or-treating at businesses marked with an orange Boo in Burien sign. Shops will also serve supernatural store specials and hot treats.

Pumpkins will become bowling balls or works of art at two different locations. Paint a pumpkin at Grocery Outlet, 236 S.W. 152nd St., from noon until the gourds run out. Participants get to take their eerie creations home. Bowl with a pumpkin at Elliott Bay Brewhouse & Pub, 255 S.W. 152nd St., from 1 to 3 p.m.

The family hound has two opportunities to put his or her best paw forward. First, decked-out canines compete in the Costumed Dog Parade, which starts at 3 p.m. Immediately following the parade, watch dachshunds wiggle in the Wiener Dog Race. Register participating pooches for a $2 suggested donation beginning at noon. Participants will receive doggie gift bags while supplies last. Canine-appropriate prizes will be awarded to costume and race winners. The two events, including registration, take place on Southwest 152nd Street where it intersects with Ninth Avenue Southwest in Olde Burien.

The phantasmic fashion competition isn’t going just to the dogs. Youngsters can enter their spectral threads in the Children’s Costume Contest. Prizes will be awarded for most original, scariest and cutest costume. To compete, show up at 4 p.m. on Southwest 152nd Street where it intersects with Ninth Avenue Southwest in Olde Burien for judging. Goodie Gumdrops is sponsoring the contest.

Raise some goose bumps in the haunted house at Moss Chiropractic, 612 S.W. 152nd St., from 1 to 5 p.m. Dr. Jonna Moss and her staff, family and patients have 16 years of terrorizing experience. The haunted house is not bloody, but it is definitely not suitable for children ages 5 and younger, including babies.

From 1 to 4 p.m., Burien Little Theatre actors will tell Halloween tales at Goodie Gumdrops, 816 S.W. 152nd St. Stories will be adorable and amusing for younger children and spine-tingling for those a little older.

The event centers on Southwest 152nd Street in downtown Burien. Free hayrides will be provided along 152nd Street from noon to 5 p.m., courtesy of Taproot Church, to give fatigued phantom feet a rest.

Primary sponsors of Boo in Burien are Prudential Northwest Realty Associates and the Discover Burien Association. Other sponsors include Moss Chiropractic, Grocery Outlet, Goodie Gumdrops, Elliott Bay Brewhouse & Pub, Taproot Church and Burien Little Theatre.

Discover Burien is a nonprofit organization that works on the economic development and marketing of the city. For more information, call 206-941-7199 or go online to www.discoverburien.com.

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A man is only as good as his word.

And if you can‘t depend on his word,

what then?

Recently, a police lied and then made excuses. His boss said that his firing would likely stand since "our word is the most important thing we have."

Yes, there’s nothing sorrier than a liar and if he’ll lie to you, he’ll also steal from you; and if he’ll steal, he’ll hurt you. You never let a dog walk up behind you, else he’ll bite you. Can lying lead to such? You bet, for Jesus Christ said that a thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.

But then, the thief believes all are of his profession, eh? A deputy sheriff said, "I’ve worked in this business long enough to know that every man has his price." Do wrong for money? I gasped, "That‘s horrible!" My dad replied, "That might be so, but, Henry Louis (his cousin), YOU KNOW BETTER." He sighed in agreement. Both men striving for holiness as members of the Church of God? And after swearing to uphold the Constitution, a deputy looking at others with suspicion wondering what price would bring them down? How dare him? What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

In a fancy restaurant with a socialite, the man asked, "Would you sleep with a man for a million dollars?" She replied, "I might." "Would you for ten?" Aghast, "What do you think I am?" He replied, "That point has already been established, we‘re just trying to set the price." Behold, the illusion of virtue and purity that the woman held of herself that vanished how long ago?

In Butterfield 8, Elizabeth Taylor played a call girl, but kept up a front with her mama back home in saying she was a secretary. It held as long as the exchange was money, but when she received a mink coat; her world crumbled and it was over as she spun out into space off the end of an overpass under construction at 120 miles per hour.

Isn’t it time we reconciled the illusions we have of ourselves and of others with the facts of life? It still remains, a man is only as good as his word and what does God say about it?

Ecclesiastes 5
4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it;
for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow,
than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin;
neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error:
wherefore should God be angry at thy voice,
and destroy the work of thine hands?
7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities:
but fear thou God.

Mike DeBell served on the board for two years with five unmarried women and one married. Since we’re only as strong as our weakest link and the bible says a woman menstruating is sick; thus, a sick team with six incapacitated, eh?

Furthermore, the marks of abuse or sexual activity as teenagers was upon some and of bucking nature upon others. Miserable wrecks projecting their misery upon all involved, eh? And I’ve yet to see a promiscuous teenager that allowed her children, especially, her daughters to rise above it. And if a teacher, the same holds true for her students.

But what about the boy? A catholic priest in 1929 wrote that if a child was not taught NOT TO PLAY WITH HIMSELF by the time he was 3 to 5 years old, he’d always have trouble with his identity and seldom if ever be able to make lasting relationships, especially, with the opposite sex.

And how many struggle over relationships as badly as pulling petals off the daisy: He loves me, he loves me not, yes, no, maybe so, certainly? The sitcom, I Love Raymond, a prime example of fickle relationships with five adults striving for mastery or stardom with an infantile mentality that never gets beyond me, myself, and I!

Signs of abuse include withdrawal from social contacts. As an adult, it may surface as greed against those with a social life or violence against military recruitment and then an attack on such things as carbonated beverages, etc.

Now, Mike DeBell, as an adult, was responsible for knowing the nature of the beast and should’ve opposed these things. But his greatest crime was lying to students. Takes a sorry man to lie, but to students? That’s inexcusable and unpardonable in my opinion. Jesus said to offend a little one that trusted in him, it would be better to be hung upside down in the ocean.

You see, proceeds from the pop and candy machines went to the students for their extra-curricular activities. At one school, they then put bottled water for 35 cents into the machine with a five gallon jug and a cup sitting beside it for free.

When Franklin HS reported to the committee that their funds dropped $108K that year and that students took and spent more than that across the street at Starbucks; Mike DeBell did not keep his promise that the district would make up any loss in their funds. Instead, he made excuses of financial woes and said it was up to them to raise the funds somehow.

A source of student funds had been negotiating with the publisher of their yearbooks. Instead, the board signed a $500K contract with some publisher to do the whole district. A cookie-cutter proposition, eh?

A source of their financial woes was the board tripling the salary of the new Sup to $175K, plus amenities, who wasn’t worth a meal ticket. To whom does Mr. DeBell owe allegiance? Let him not forget who brought him to the dance, eh? Since an outsider, she don’t care about any of us and too sorry and too lazy to do her job, while dangling the carrot she‘ll have some plan in place in five years and the beat goes on. But don‘t say anything because the board is highly impressed.

Another source of their financial woes was stealing $1.5 million from the District’s operation levy funds just to fight the recall of five board members. If they’d only been reasonable, they would’ve avoided the embarrassment and expense. And if justice had been served, all seven should‘ve been sent to prison for their crimes.

Another source was spending $50K to appeal a case to the Supreme Court to defend what all knew was unconstitutional. ($50K vs. $1.5 million for local case? What disparity, eh?) Justices Roberts and Thomas against, Kennedy on the fence, and Scalio for busing; but all four said that the SPSD made claims they never proved. In other words, even if Parents Involved had gone fishing, the District lost their case, eh?

At the news briefing, Gary Ikeda, legal counsel; Sup. Manhas, an Indian, and President of the board, Cheryl Chow, were as the Hispanic and Asian head of the Justice Department under George Bush, where racism never affected them and so no concern of theirs. But our leaders would look for loopholes in Justice Kennedy’s brief to continue busing. Unwilling to submit to the law, but when in their favor had shoved it down our throats, eh?

In other words, $2.05 million down the tube, eh? Yet, just the manner in which the board squandered money and misappropriated funds.

Why didn’t DeBell keep his word? Since isolating himself, no use for socializing and will cut it off in anyway he can. And then a liar don’t care if it’s to kids or not, eh?

Behold, the poverty stricken state of affairs. At this time, Franklin has only a Glee Club financed by the Kiwanis, a Mock Trial Team in trouble financially, and a dance group as the only social activity except for sports, the band, and cheerleaders; which students haft to pay to participate in. Can you believe?

Don’t forget: A man is only as good as his word and there’s nothing sorrier than a liar. Here’s something to help you keep your cool.

Ecclesiastes 5::
8IF THOU SEEST THE OPPRESSION OF THE POOR,
AND VIOLENT PERVERTING OF JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE IN A PROVINCE,
MARVEL NOT AT THE MATTER:
FOR HE THAT IS HIGHER THAN THE HIGHEST REGARDETH;
AND THERE BE ONE HIGHER THAN THEM ALL.

With the board, it’s been one long, continuous train of violence and perversion beginning with that mercenary, militant, John Stanford. And as long as his name is over the door, NONE THEREIN WILL RISE ABOVE HIM.

(I’ve said that Mike DeBell is a Jekyl and Hyde. How so? If he ran his business as he does the board, none would list their house with him nor buy from him. Why not? Can you imagine a looney starring into space with his mind elsewhere while trying to transact business? Just a repeat of Stanford‘s way of doing things!)

Can Stanford be to blame? You bet. How can I be so sure? A house is only as good as the man that heads it. So if absent, all therein are chickens with their heads cut off, eh? Jesus said that the servant is not greater than his lord, the student above his teacher, nor a wife above her husband and since sex is consummation of marriage, that means her first sex partner is her husband, eh?

Furthermore, as long as the words of one with Stanford’s nature, MLK, JR. is used for a mission statement, the glass ceiling over the heads of all students will remain locked in place by the iron clad fist of the board and administration.

Mr. King’s speech, "I have a Dream" was beguiling and as perverted as the serpent’s message to Eve and attacked the white man as bad as the serpent attacked God. Yet, we’re "Delivering" on that dream? Dream on Dreamer!

Why does such continue? Because of the tremendous oppression used against all who oppose it. Why does Hitler and his ilk come to mind? Yet, it’s assuring to know that God Almighty is still in control and has His eye on the matter. Yes, He keeps the record straight and shall reward accordingly.

Time to close. To all who’ve read this far, have a good day.

I am LaCreseGreen@cs.com of Seattle, WA.

A News investigation has uncovered what appears to be the appalling treatment of animals being killed for their fur in China.

The investigators filmed animals that were kicking and writhing as workers ripped their skin from their bodies. If the animals struggled too much, workers stood on the animals' neck Or they beat the animals' heads with knife handles until the creatures stopped moving.

It's also a very slow process, and they usually start from the feet(paw)-up, giving the animal plenty of time to endure the pain. After their fur was peeled, the animals' bodies were tossed into a pile like so much trash, Most still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog, tossed onto a heap of carcasses; it had enough strength to lift its bloodied head and stare into the camera.

it raised its head, blinked with its remaining eyelashes and then lay its head down to continue dying for anything from 2-3 Hours.



YOU CAN HELP!
1.You can donate to animals charities
2.DO NOT BUY ANY FUR PRODUCTS
3.Spread the word, be voice of these animals. Forward this video to as many people as you can so that they can contribute also

http://www.acscct.org

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