Posted on 12/04/2013 6:01:25 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. How’s it going?
Oh no! Whatz wrong with Lynn-Dah? Poor girl.
Good morning night owl ((HUGS))
Whew! That is really weird...you have 17, and we’re going close to 70 today.
Impacted and Infected anal glands..both sides. EEEEEKKK!!!!!
Poor Baby.
Ewwww....eeeekkkkk is right.
Getting the vet to take care of that, right?
That stuff still amazes me.
Good morning dear ((HUGS))
It appears that some of you in the midwest are in-for-it this winter.
Hope that means we, on the east coast, will catch a break this winter (ducking).
Yes.
It was a real bloodbath.
Eeeek! I know...one of our older dogs had to have that taken care of but I think it produced mostly gas.
Lynn-Dah is now on one of the most powerful broad spectrum antibiotics known to man.
The vet said that “If she starts having hallucinations” to stop the pills immediately.
How would I know if she’s having “hallucinations”?
What are doggie hallucinations like?
Pink and purple kittehs dancing in the sky with diamonds? Cellophane squirrels of yellow and green towering over her head?
Good morning beach and (((HUGS))). We need some cold weather to kill some insects. Might even see some snow with this front.
Me too. BTW, I’m sitting in the jury gathering room. Getting here was a slow go! Freezing rain continues. School is cancelled because a lot of the buses can’t “get there”. And work has a 10 am call in about coming there. I could still be sleeping!!
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Good morning, Arrowhead...((HUGS))...stay warm.
I’m sitting at the courthouse awaiting jury duty. We have had freezing rain since last night. It’s ugly outside.
He works in mysterious ways, ML. Glad Lynn-Dah is on the road to recovery. Watch those hallucinations.
Sending prayers for both of you.
Build a snowman!! And stay warm.
So far, she hasn’t shown any weirdness, so i guess she’s doing OK.
When she starts wearing a tie dyed bandanna and listening to the Grateful Dead, I’ll be worried.
I really DO appreciate those prayers! ;-)
No snow yet. Might get to use my cleats for the ice though!
Bout durned time for this!
Rafael Peralta, a Marine sergeant who saved the lives of fellow Marines before he was killed by a grenade blast in Iraq in 2004 may get another look for the Medal of Honor.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., wrote to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Oct. 22 to ask for a re-examination of Peraltas award decision, based on video evidence, pathology reports and other supporting evidence. The congressman has just received a call from the defense secretary, Hunter spokesman Joe Kasper said on Dec. 4.
He is looking at (the petition), and he is looking at it very seriously, Kasper said.
Defense Department Assistant Press Secretary Carl Woog told The San Diego Union-Tribune that Secretary Hagel is familiarizing himself with the history of the case so that he may appropriately respond to Rep. Hunters letter.
Hagel has not formally reopened Peraltas case, however, a defense official said.
The Marine Corps recommended Peralta for the militarys highest valor award, crediting him with covering a grenade with his body to save the lives of fellow Marines. Then-Secretary Robert Gates questioned the evidence that Peralta had acted consciously to absorb the blast because he had also received a ricocheting rifle round to the head. Peralta was instead posthumously awarded the Navy Cross in 2008. Though Hunters office later petitioned Gates successor as defense secretary, Leon Panetta, to reconsider Gates decision on the matter, Panetta opted not to overturn Gates decision.
Hunter has new optimism regarding the petition for two reasons, Kasper said. The first is the recent presentation of the Medal of Honor to Army Capt. Will Swenson, whose award nomination was lost for years after his heroic battlefield actions in Afghanistan in 2009. Hunter had publicly pushed for a Pentagon inspector general probe into the bureaucratic errors and delays that kept Swenson from receiving his award.
Hunter spoke with Hagel at Swensons award ceremony Oct. 15, and renewed his request on Peraltas behalf shortly thereafter.
With everything that occurred specific to Captain Swensons nomination, the fact that he was presented the award, more than four years after he was first recommended, goes a very long way to restore integrity and confidence to the Medal of Honor award process, Hunter wrote. The case of Sergeant Peralta presents the same opportunity. By awarding him the Medal of Honor, a major error in judgment can be corrected and much of the criticism pointed toward the awards process can be addressed not by words, but by actions.
Hunter was hopeful of getting traction with Hagel, Kasper said, because the new defense secretary was an enlisted infantry squad leader in Vietnam, while the previous two secretaries served as officers in non-infantry roles.
He knows what it means to be in a situation like that, Kasper said. He also knows what would happen if a grenade detonated 1 to 3 feet from someones body.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., have also endorsed the renewed Medal of Honor petition for Peralta.
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