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I came across this You Tube channel. This guy spends his time in an animal shelter sitting with dogs, trying to get them out of their shell in order to make them more adoptable.

I twice attempted to post the news of the death of the Baltimore Orioles and MLB great and Hall of Famer, Brooks Robinson. Both times I posted it to General Chat with a keyword of Sports and both times some Mod pulled it saying I posted it to the wrong forum. I think that nickcaraway also had his post pulled. I do not understand why these posts were pulled.

I have sort of a love/hate relationship with flying. It wasn’t until mid-July of 1999 when I took my first airline flight from Baltimore to Toronto at the age of 37. It’s not that I avoided flying, I just never had an occasion or opportunity to do so up until then. The longest trip I’d ever been on up until then was when my family – me, my dad, mom, my brother and his fiancée, drove from Harrisburg PA to Myrtle Beach SC, pretty much straight through except for a brief stop for breakfast and a few very brief “pit...

I found out a while ago about people who scambait scammers – Scammer Payback, Trilogy Media, Modder Paul, Pleasant Green, IRLrosie and others. Today and for the next couple of days, these folks have joined together for the People's Call Center, going after these scammers in a coordinated effort.

Woman Remains Certain Boyfriend is Not a Romance Scammer

I love the History Buffs YouTube channel. Nick Hodges IMO does such a great job of reviewing films based on historical events.

After three days in jail with only Aleve as treatment, she has received surgery.

Discover the inspiring true story of Sir Nicholas Winton in the award-winning film "Nicky's Family"

HAZELWOOD — The city has quietly replaced its police chief and will allow him to retire voluntarily on Jan. 1, months after he was pulled over, called “hammered drunk,” and given a ride home by another police chief rather than arrested.

About a year ago, a friend of mine posted a real life story to a science forum I read. She was a temporary worker in the toy department of a large retail chain and wrote about two customers she served one day. **** I was working at my seasonal retail job today at Target. I was working in the toy department which is near the seasonal section, when I saw an older lady who appeared to be looking for something and not all too happy. The good worker that I am, I went up to her with a smile and...

A student who flushed her hamster down the toilet when Spirit told her she couldn't fly home with it, is now attempting to sue the airline for causing emotional distress. Aldecosea, a Miami Beach High graduate, insists her doctor approved her hamster as a certified emotional support animal, and had the medical certificate to prove it when she went to the airport. She's bought the adorable rodent after developing a large but benign growth in her neck last year. 'She was so loving. It was like she knew I needed somebody,' said Aldecosea, a six-feet tall volleyball star who helped...

I am posting this as a “vanity”, my very first “vanity” post and BTW in Bloggers/Personal where it belongs, but since there have been multiple threads on this topic and way too many people on multiple threads that I would like to respond to, I am posting it here.

The worst thing you can do to a Telemarketer is talk to them!Or so I thought. Maybe the worst thing you can do to a Telemarketer is let your robo talk to them. After all, they call you with their computers, so it’s only fair to let them talk to your computer. That’s where ‘Hello, This Is Lenny’ comes in. ‘Lenny’ is a set of scripts originally used on an Asterisk-based Voice-Over-IP system. You can transfer the call to the extension using these scripts, or have the dialplan automatically route to Lenny’s extension. Check out some of the You Tube...

When retired Cpl. Lewis Alston, who was wounded during the Vietnam War, drove by Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Lancaster last year, he was shocked. “I saw -- when I was coming down the street -- a student that ran in between the cars,” Alston, 63, of Lititz, Pennsylvania, told ABC News. “The traffic will not stop for the children at all.” -Snip So when the school year started on Monday, Alston, who is a chaplain for the Lancaster County Marine Corps League, headed to the school and saw that they didn’t have a crossing guard at one...

The Passing of The Declaration of Independence - John Adams - HBO IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We...

I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar till I was one, breastfed for over a year, organic homegrown vegetables, raw milk, no MSG, no additives, no aspartame. My mother used homeopathy, aromatherapy, osteopathy, we took daily supplements of vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil. I had an outdoor lifestyle; I grew up next to a farm, walked everywhere, did sports and danced twice a week, drank plenty of water. I wasn’t even allowed pop; even my fresh juice was watered down to protect my teeth, and I would’ve killed for white, shop-bought bread in my lunch...

While he has financially supported mainstream Republicans, Wagner has also been outspoken against incumbent Republicans and supported the campaigns of tea party and other independent challengers. As an apparent response, the Republican Party of Pennsylvania and the Senate Republican Campaign Committee have launched television and mail ads against him. The mailer comes on the heels of a television commercial that featured a picture of Wagner superimposed with dead fish. The ad, according to Wagner, misrepresented a 2006 paperwork error as an environmental disaster.

While most of us are happy to have a long three day weekend, many of us will hit the “Memorial Day” sales at the big box retail stores, go to cookouts, open our pools, go to the beach and celebrate the beginning of summer season, let us not forget what Memorial Day is really all about; “Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.” Taking Chance' ~ Lt. Col. Michael Strobl (USMC) There is a very excellent movie based on this true story called “Taking Chance”. "Taking...

Kira Davis Apologizes to President Karzai over Quran Burnings I couldn’t have said it any better!