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This is Roxy. She is training to do pet therapy. She was rescued from Orange County Animal Services at 6 weeks old. She was found by herself and someone brought her in. She had been in foster care. She is very sweet. Loves playing Frisbee at the dog park. Full of energy. Roxy enjoys going to dog events around town. She likes to pose for photos. She enjoys running around our large backyard. She has Dachshund brothers and sisters. Roxy won a local news station pet pic of the week earlier this year and was featured on their website.

My name is Norbert Stanley, aka "Norb." I was born in Corbin, Kentucky, but now I live with my new mommy in the big city of Chicago, Illinois. I love taking walks, meeting new people, and making friends with other doggies. Sometimes I sit on a corner until a new friend I can play with walks by! I love to find sticks on my walks and bring them home with me. I also like to chew anything and everything I can find. I make everyone laugh, and I love to snuggle.

Named after the "immortal beings of incredible strength and stamina"! (at least we have the strength part, stamina not so much...) He loves to play with his Auntie Bulah the Bloodhound, Auntie Nikki the French Bulldog, and Uncle Trog the Presa Canario!

Tens of thousands of people gathered at The National Mall to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Saturday. Most people don’t know it was for “Jobs and Freedom.” Even fewer people know what the demands of the march were. Well, here are ten things the organizers, representing different organizations and ideologies, were able to agree on as demands.

1. Comprehensive and effective civil rights legislation from the present Congress — without compromise or filibuster — to guarantee all Americans:
   Access to all public accommodations
   Decent housing
   Adequate and integrated education
   The right to vote
2. Withholding of Federal funds from all programs in which discrimination exists.
3. Desegregation of all school districts in 1963.
4. Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment — reducing Congressional representation of states where citizens are disfranchised.
5. A new Executive Order banning discrimination in all housing supported by federal funds.
6. Authority for the Attorney General to institute injunctive suits when any Constitutional right is violated.
7. A massive federal program to train and place all unemployed workers — Negro and white — on meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages.
8. A national minimum wage act that will give all Americans a decent standard of living. (Government surveys show that anything less than $2.00 an hour fails to do this.)
   

   [The minimum wage at the time of the march was $1.15/hour. After adjusting for inflation, $1.15 in 1963 is equal to $8.78 in 2013. Today in 2013, the federal minimum wage is only $7.25, significantly lower than what it was 50 years ago. After adjusting for inflation, the $2.00/hour minimum wage called for in the March demands would be equal to a minimum wage of $15.27 today, more than twice what it actually is.]

9. A broadened Fair Labor Standards Act to include all areas of employment which are presently excluded.
10. A federal Fair Employment Practices Act barring discrimination by federal, state, and municipal governments, and by employers, contractors, employment agencies, and trade unions.

The list is both depressing and inspiring. Depressing because the nation has failed to achieve so many of them. Inspiring because they are so admirable and just. So let’s continue to fight for them!

are you even srs

jodyrobots:

i heard —-grunt—-urgh——guuu—-you were talking shit

franklindbulldog:

Thank you for the birthday wishes. As you can see, the party got crazy and I sprained my ankle. On bed rest for 2 weeks. I don’t have a problem with this. Yet.

motherjones:

We don’t always write about sailing, but when we do, we write about how the world’s fifth-richest man ruined the America’s Cup.

Things I experienced when I accidentally went to the America’s Cup Park:

-A “wine and cheese” concessions booth at the concert stadium

-A coffee and wine bar with couches at a “sporting” event

-A branded promo open air bar area trying its best to impersonate a nightclub even at 3 in the afternoon

-Horror at the idea that people had plans to get in those boats and move around in them without understanding that those spindly things were definitely going to kill them

-Confusion over whether the audio that was playing was of a thing that was currently happening or not

-Increasing rage as I realized you probably could not even see the races from this giant inexplicable park right on the water

-Glee at the Howard students taking pictures mocking the America’s Cup

-An overwhelming desire to storm up to the guy signing posters and demand, “WHAT IS THE PREMISE OF THIS”

cloverthebulldog:

I dropped my ball.  I hate it when that happens. 

Mom can you get it

tammalee:

little-alternative-girl:

kayquimi:

thequeertails:

fluffmugger:

pinstripedbutton:

Australia.
Please stop.
And let me hug this creature.

#Australia #I should Be afraid #but #D’awwww


no nonono. Be not afraid of the wombat. They are awesome.  They’re like groundhogs, if groundhogs were furry tanks. The claws are for digging, and they’re complete herbivores.

 Unlike most australian wildlife they don’t fart fire or shoot spines or turn into velociraptors as a protective measure, they just have this HUGE backside of solid bone.   Seriously. When a predator threatens their burrow they just crouch down face-first and when said predator tries to get over that gigantic bony arse to feast on sweet wombat face they just STAND UP and crush that fucker against the roof.  You also do not want to hit one with your car. It’s like running over a fucking boulder. I’ve seen wombat strikes destroy the entire undercarriage of a car, rip out the sump, fuck up the axles and destroy the suspension and the goddamn wombat just walked off.   Forget that “deer destroyed my front end” shit, a wombat will give you a complete write-off.   (This is also why you get the fuck out of their way if you see one running towards you. You do not want to get hit by that bastard).

But they generally just wander around like comically shaped foot-rests, eating roots and enjoying the night air.   They can run, but don’t like to, and generally could not give two shits about humans because who cares about two-legs when you have an arse that can destroy utes.    And they poop rectangles.

I can’t.

Holy carp I had no idea they were so big!

OMG I DIDN’T KNOW AUSTRALIA HAD ROUS!

For a moment, I thought I was being trolled. Cubic poos? No such a thing! Sphincters and organic squishy tubes (i.e. intestines) are the wrong shape and not rigid enough to make cubes, I would think.

However, it’s true. They really do have cubic poos. Nothing with sharp corners or edges, of course, but they do have six, distinct, flat surfaces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzevM30IrUQ#t=43

Well! This is the answer for a future Trivial Pursuit question! XD

Vincent would you pick him up

pickleandharveybulldogblog:

Jerks

U. QUEENSLAND (AUS) — Focusing on fast-growing and hardy microscopic algae, rather than the most oil-rich, could lead to cheaper and more efficient alternative fuel.

“Previously the main focus has been looking for oil-rich algae, but usually these are tastier to predators—like microscopic scoops of ice cream,” says Evan Stephens of the University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Solar Biofuels Research Center.

worldofbulldog:

WorldofBulldog

honeybadgerrunner:

It’s okay, sometimez you need hug.

Nigel Bear, baby years. 

how 

how do you ever get anything done with this lovebug in your house

cloverthebulldog:

I got spayed.  I don’t know what that means totally, but I know I’m sore and confused as to why I have to wear this stupid thing around my neck. 

Today would be a good day for Clover to wake up with bacon in her jowls

chompsky:

We got a great price on a doggie lifejacket! Chompsky is a great swimmer but he also likes to swim alongside on kayak rides, and I dunno how long his stamina is. Now we don’t have to worry!

high school reunion

bublog:

BUB was hoping you could help PAWSS help domestic violence survivors in southern Indiana leave their abusers without abandoning their pets. 

Make a pledge and learn more here.

Research indicates that 48% of domestic violence survivors stay with their abusers because they fear what will happen to their pets. 

PAWSS is very close to their “tipping point” which allows them to get the money that’s been pledged so far. If you can help, that’s great, if not, please share. BUB appreciates your support.

Different pledge points include BUB gifts ranging from magnets, to shirts to a photo-op with BUB, in person.

HELP HERE.

chompsky:

Boat dog

If there are five things that are important to tumblr, I would say they are probably

1.  Porn

2.  Feelings

3.  Social justice

4.  Cute animals

5.  Pizza

disruptingdinnerparties:

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