I'm so sorry!!!  The same thing happened to my mom with her beloved Chihuahua as she was moving out of her house around Christmas.  She called me sobbing, and I put the hazards on on my car and flew over there at about 100 miles per hour, calling every vet I knew hoping they would say, "Oh, just bring the dog over and we can perform a miraculous procedure to save him."  Just horrible.  My girls still talk about that dog, and when we find a lego or Barbie that Dobie chewed up, we all pause for a moment of silence. 

We'll hug our puppies (and even our kitties) for you today. 

I'm crying for you too. Todd I'm so sorry. I was down for weeks when my 16 year old beagle passed away, and that without the trauma of seeing it. I will pray for you of course. You showed that sweet puppy so much love...far more than most doggies ever dream of. She really did have a happy life with you.

Holy crap man! That's terrible.  Those little guys are so much parts of our family.  It's hard to explain to a non-dog owner.  If it were a cat - now that's another story.

You Bakers hang in there.  I wish we could get down there and see you and hug your new baby. 

Yes we can (sorry, I had to),
Alan

That is horrible. Roxy was the coolest dog. She will be missed.

*sob* Well said, Babe.

So sorry. All dog lovers & owners are grieving for you. Makes me sad to just think about what you guys saw & are feeling.

Good question, and I answered you back at my site.
No, I don't think everyone who disagrees with Obama is dumb. (Though I don't think anything he said about racial healing is debatable....hopefully both political parties would be pro-racial healing.)
I think Fox news is acting dumb because they attack him without ever even understanding what he said, and by asking super shallow questions and keeping everything at a very surfacey, 5th grade level.
I think there are intelligent ways to disagree even with Obama, or intelligent alternative solutions to issues, but personal attack and mis-representing someone's positions is not attractive to me.
You're right though - I'm not good at accepting non-graceful people with grace. That was why I liked Obama's speech because it reminded me I don't need to be that way. Still not good at it though!

One more idea---
The media could easily do the same thing to McCain because he worked so hard to get into Jerry Falwell's good graces in 2006. They could be asking "Does McCain believe the gays caused 9/11?" "Does McCain believe in using violence in the name of Christianity?"
But those would be dumb questions to ask, because clearly that's not what McCain's about either. I think Obama and McCain are both good dudes with some good ideas, and that's what the news should talk about.

Thanks for the essay.

You were right, papa bear was far more fair to Obama than I expected him to be.

This is really not a big deal to me, but since you asked....The two incidents on Fox this week were then they combed through over 700,000 user profiles on Obama's site, which ANYONE can create in less than a minute...(in fact there are sarcastic ones created daily for Hannity which get deleted) and some fool had created one for the Black Panther Party that day. As soon as Obama's people saw it, it was deleted, yet even after it was deleted, Fox spent the rest of the day reporting (as their lead story on the website) that Obama had a link on his site to the Black Panthers, attempting to give the illusion that is was an official link set up by the Obama people, and ignoring the fact that it was immediately deleted when found. I thought that was poor journalism.

The other incident was yesterday when Fox and friends spent 2 hours straight on the morning show misrepresenting something he said when defending his grandma. Someone had asked him if grandma was a racist, and conversationally, he explained, that like the typical white person, she was NOT a bigot or racist --- she just was afraid when black people passed her on the street. I think it's pretty obvious he wasn't making fun of white people because he IS half white, but they kept playing only half the remark all morning, cutting the quote off at "typical white person" and debating if he is racist. I think that twisting someone's words like that is poor journalism. It's really not just Fox though, I think in general all TV news operates at a far, far lower IQ level than anything in print, and even print sometimes fails to recognize the nuance and complexity of some issues....but that's all I was saying. Sorry to call out your Fox, I forgot how much you liked it. It's really not even a big deal to me, I've always thought TV news was a little silly, but this week was just especially low.

And...I really don't want a liberal version of Hannity. I really think that the American public (the younger generation anyway) is tired of hearing the left and right blast each other down and paint one another unfairly.

I'm pretty sure you and I would disagree on how to solve most problems in America, but I think we BOTH want what's best and we both just have different ideas of what would help most. I wouldn't say you're 'siding with the terrorists' or trying to 'destroy America' for proposing different solutions! That's I think where the new politics is headed...time to move away from the one-sided stuff. Does that make sense?

oops...that was Traci ^^^