Click to go to article in Taiwan News.
I stole that title from a Forumosa thread title. It is true that after every peak in dog buying habits of the local humans, a new wave of abandoned dogs hits the streets. Usually it is caused by a popular “cute dog movie.” Most recently it was a rush to buy the same dog as Taiwan’s newly and dubiously christened “supermodel.” But now it will be year of the dog.
Here’s an excerpt from the Taiwan News story. Click the photo to go to the story.
As people in Taiwan prepare for Lunar New Year celebrations to welcome in the Year of the Dog, pet store owners are already feeling some new year’s cheer.
Pet sellers estimate that on average more than NT$20 billion is spent on 1.6 million pet dogs and related products in Taiwan every year.
But with the “Year of the Dog” soon to arrive, pet store owners have seen their sales increase by at least 20 percent so far.
My Google News email alerts on depleted uranium (DU) and white phosphorus (which you must have heard about by now unless you live in Canada) gave me a link to this opinion piece. It seems to be on an English language Web site highly supportive of Chavez and his “Bolivarian Revolution.”
VHeadline.com commentarist Mary MacElveen writes: US Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton called the lack of body armor provided to our military personnel as being “unforgivable” this past week and wants an investigation into this matter. While our troops do need that body armor, it is like placing a band-aid on a gaping wound especially when it comes to the use of depleted uranium in Iraq.
She goes on to touch on the recent bombing of a village in Pakistan, the nature of a DU weapon attack, the complicity of the mainstream media and more before getting back to calling Hillary a hypocrite for ignoring unimportant lives while calling for body armour. It’s a righteous read.
HERE IS THE LINK
And here is an interesting excerpt from a related article on the same site:
Should the US be bold enough to take an aggressive action again Hugo Chavez in a fourth attempt to unseat him, it’s almost certain they’ll use DU weapons in large numbers on Venezuelan soil and targets causing widespread radiation fallout and the lethal effects from it. Potentially millions of Venezuelans could be affected who would suffer severe future health consequences of virtually every imaginable type.
I wrote this essay to sound an alarm and alert the world hoping that if people everywhere know the danger now and demand a halt to the use of these illegal weapons it will give the US military pause.
AllPeers is a bittorrent client that embeds into Firefox. You can allow your friends to download any files you want to share. I haven’t yet tried it, but it sure looks cool.