More later but I leave you with the four thoughts that started my day ... One, if Hilary Clinton was man would she be a shoo-in for president? And would s/he be doable? Two, communicating with drunk people will teach you a thing or two about listening skills. Three, why are there no black people on the Daily Show? Are they not funny? Four, Angelina Jolie is not aging well at all. In fact, she's starting to look like those old school movie starlets at age 80 that still cling to their bedazzled berets, rock the reading spectacles with the string and write notes to themselves in the newspaper. That said she's still doable.

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Why Couldn't This Be Scrappy?
I've been following this story for a while, it's been mentioned a few times in local press but I think this might make it rise to the national level or at least to an episode of Law & Order.

Prosecutors won the right Monday to use a live puppy in a demonstration of how another dog suffered before it was stuffed into a searing hot gas oven and killed.

Laura Janssen, the prosecutor, argued that a live demonstration would show how a real dog would react. She said her expert on dog behavior would stop short of any real cruelty.

"It helps the jury to understand," Janssen said.

The puppy pulled from the Fulton animal shelter on Tuesday would be a stand-in for one that was doused with paint, burned, hog-tied with duct tape and then died futility struggling inside a gas oven.

Defense lawyers are justifiably worried about predjudicing and inflaming the jury. Ya think? Too bad though, you'd have to be the love child of Paris Hilton and Bin Laden not feel something. A kitten? Fine. That's like only worthy of the vestibule of Dante's inferno. A bunny? Again ok, that's like 7th grade biology class. But a puppy?? That's pure evil. Anywho, witnesses have already testified that Justin and Joshua Moulder, 17 and 19 respectively, tortured, killed and then bragged about their puppy dealings. They continue to trash a community center ...

Not the teen center!

... and 'defaced' a biblical picture. The defense has their work cut out for them. Much of the case turns on the testimony from neighborhood kiddies. Kids and puppies? They're screwed.
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Again more later ... I think your mom should adopt the puppy. Not the dead one, the stunt double. The stand-in will be returned to the pound after the trial.

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