Woof Down Lunch 2014

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We went to the Woof Down Lunch 2014 at the Yavapai Courthouse on Saturday. It is a fund raising event for United Animal Friends and an adoption event. Here are some photos:

 

 
Gary (left), Joanie, and Jon

Knife: Studio Photography

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Doing some studio photography today, not feeling violent in case anyone is worried 🙂 The challenge was to bring out the sharp edge in the photo using lights, focus, camera angle and a bit of photoshop.

Rabbits on the Dog Walk [Video]

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Here is a video I took while walking the dogs. It shows 2 rabbits running across a parking lot and my dogs wanting to chase them – didn’t happen, they were leashed. In the evenings we walk past this area often and see these rabbits. This time I saw them before they ran and walked up towards them. I got this video with my iPhone – I am no videographer, as you can see.

Dog in Car Window

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While doing errands this morning I saw this yellow lab with his head outside a car window. I like seeing dogs riding in cars

Fall of Baghdad (coming soon?) Echoes the Fall of Saigon in 1975

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Been reading/watching the news from Baghdad, Iraq in the last week or two? To me, this echoes the Fall of Saigon, Vietnam in 1975. As a baby boomer, the war in Vietnam loomed large when I was young. I remember they were drafting the young men for that war, more than a few from my high school and neighborhood were taken. Gary had to register for the draft when he turned 18 (though he was not drafted). And the numbers of Americans killed and wounded there was much larger than those lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just as the group called ISIS is now taking area after area from the government we set up in Baghdad, the Viet Cong  and north Vietnamese fighters did the same to the regime we installed there. We seem to have learned nothing from that mess 39 years ago. What a horrific waste of lives and resources.

Perhaps people will realize that the real enemy of peace, liberty, freedom and human happiness is the State itself. Maybe not.