Squabbling Over the Pigeon Bill: Pennsylvania Legislature Won’t Be Able to Soar Like Eagles Until It Shoots Down Animal Cruelty (Guest Voice)

This is a Guest Voice post by journalism professor and author Walter Brasch who is also a syndicated newspaper columnist and radio commentator, and president of the Pennsylvania Press Club. Since this contains original reporting it will be kept at the top of this site during various parts of the day. NEWER POSTS are below this one so KEEP SCROLLING to find newer posts. Squabbling Over the Pigeon Bill: Pennsylvania Legislature Won’t Be Able to Soar Like Eagles Until It Shoots Down Animal Cru

29 Jun 2008, 10:58 am | click here for more

The Geeky Scrolling LED Belt Buckle

Do you like the idea of showing a message to others via your belt buckle? Here’s a geek device that just does that. The scrolling LED belt buckle has 147 colored LEDs inside a chrome frame that can be put on your desk or a belt. You can program the device to display messages of your choice and that too in four different colors. The main features of this LED Belt Buckle are as follows: Onboard speed and brightness adjustments. every functions can be programmed using the onboard programming but

28 Jun 2008, 9:00 am | click here for more

linkthink #439: Edward James Almost

MySpace.com - BIG CITY 101.3 FM BOSTON - BOSTON, Massachusetts - www.myspace.com/bigcityfm my favorite radio station in boston, hands-down (tags: radio boston caribbean reggae soca) todo mundo » Blog Archive » Throwback videogames, digital distro, and atavistic joy nice piece by kevin on the retro video game design trend in the wake of digital distribution :: news to me: they’re still publishing _Nintendo Power_!?! (tags: videogames design digital distro tech blogpost) The Pinocchio Theo

28 Jun 2008, 8:37 pm | click here for more

Squabbling Over the Pigeon Bill: Pennsylvania Legislature Won’t Be Able to Soar Like Eagles Until It Shoots Down Animal Cruelty

Dave Comroe stepped to the firing line, raised his 12-gauge Browning over and below shotgun, aimed and fired. Before him, a pigeon fell, moments after being released from a box less than 20 yards away. About 25 times that day Comroe fired, hitting about three-fourths of the birds. He was 16 at the time.             “It’s not easy to shoot them,” he says, explaining, “there’s some talent involved. When a live pigeon is released, you have no idea where it’s going.”             Where it’s going

28 Jun 2008, 6:13 am | click here for more

Squabbling Over the Pigeon Bill in Pa.

Dave Comroe stepped to the firing line, raised his 12-gauge Browning over and below shotgun, aimed and fired. Before him, a pigeon fell, moments after being released from a box less than 20 yards away. About 25 times that day Comroe fired, hitting about three-fourths of the birds. He was 16 at the time. “It’s not easy to shoot them,” he says, explaining, “there’s some talent involved. When a live pigeon is released, you have no idea where it’s going.” Where it’s going is usually no more th

28 Jun 2008, 4:33 am | click here for more

beltiscool - Kids or Extra Small Size Snap On Plain Leather Belt

Product Description This belt is specially designed for kids, which features regular removable roller buckle with snaps which allow you to switch most buckles in our buckle collections.Available color: Black, White Material: Genuine Bonded leather Width of belt: 1 1/4″ (34 mm) Size Chart: SizeFrom Buckle Fold to middle HoleFrom middle Hole to TipEnd to End-From Buckle Fold to tip20″20″5″25″23″23″5″28″25″25″5″30″28″28″5″33″30″30″5″35″Notes: the size chart does not include buckle length. There a

28 Jun 2008, 3:15 am | click here for more

AirPiano single-handedly redeems air instruments from irrelevancy

Filed below: Misc. Gadgets With the introduction of the Air Guitar Rocker, we pretty much bid the art of air rockin' adieu. No longer could we slam our belt buckles in an attempt to whammy a downright nasty Bb chord without feeling ashamed. Thanks to the AirPiano, however, imaginary musicians the world over may have one more chance to garner the respect of innocent bystanders. This instrument, which is truthfully more akin to a theremin than a bona fide piano, enables users to emit beautiful t

28 Jun 2008, 2:42 pm | click here for more

Day 1 Grand Luxe Rail Adventure - Santa Fe

Our first morning to rise aboard our sleeper car the Savannah, we have a light breakfast in the New York club car, and have adjusted somewhat to our quarters that are elegant but compact. I've never been to Santa Fe before and I am anticipating every the wonderful art. Logistics require that we take a bus to this artistic Mecca, but we will board the train later in the afternoon at Lamy, New Mexico, and ride back to Albuquerque. Santa Fe is everything I expect and maybe a little bit more. I am bl

27 Jun 2008, 6:04 pm | click here for more

See You at Crafty Bastards!

Here are some sneak peaks of some new things I will have at my booth (#53)at Crafty Bastards this Saturday: wish to look you there. Mention my blog and receive 10% off your purchase!

27 Jun 2008, 4:24 pm | click here for more

special Guest Post: by Fiona Richards {Cartolina Cards}

My Neck of the Woods - day 5. Special Guest Post by Fiona Richards, Cartolina Cards Grass Roots When I started this guest blog on Monday I wanted to talk about the challenges of living and working in a relatively remote, tiny town. Nelson is an 8hr steer from the closest big city, Vancouver. But I got a little distracted over the last few days by every the talented designers and artists who do business from here - and they every make it look pretty easy. But it does have its challenges. At time

27 Jun 2008, 2:08 am | click here for more

Amazin' maize

By Meredith Niles This week's $4.8 billion merger of Corn Products International and Bunge Ltd. probably didn't catch your eye, but with revenues projected to increase 29 percent this year to $4 billion, you might consider paying attention -- for the sake of your belly and the environment. Corn syrup manufacturers are going on the offensive -- and that includes a charm offensive. The Corn Refiners Association -- an industry trade group -- launched a new marketing campaign yesterday that coinc

27 Jun 2008, 11:33 am | click here for more

Twitty McTwit

06:49 NBC.com you are killing me! every I want to do is take a break and look at Gladiator pics (j'aime Jet), and you keep crashing Firefox. # 13:48 Looking at belt buckles on eBay, If I'm going to rock the high pant, WHICH I SHALL, need more big ass buckles. # 15:26 The American Gladiators have the worst personal sites of any group of individuals I've ever researched. # 17:47 Heading out to Schroeders to meet up with Travis Jensen, a really awesome writer for the Chron, SFist, among others. Potat

27 Jun 2008, 10:07 pm | click here for more

Meet Our Advertisers #4: Penny at Antique Dollhouse of Patterns

Here is the fourth in our continuing series of "Meet Our Advertisers": Penny from Antique Dollhouse of Patterns! How long have you been in business? THE YEAR 2000! I did not have one pattern or antique doll before the year 2000! My life was uncomplicated before 2000! What motivated you to go into the vintage patterns (and dolls!) business? I adore dolls (a latent passion) and was in WalMart in the summer of 2000 in Hood River visiting, and the salesclerk told me about the Barbie doll patte

26 Jun 2008, 9:00 am | click here for more

My Hello Kitty joy!

I have to share with everyone how great my day at work was today ... Republished from the ThisNext blog ... One of the many perks involved with being is a ThisNext Maven is getting awesome product freebies to test steer for ThisNext. I never thought as a ThisNext community manager that I would receive the same perk … from a ThisNext Maven no less! ThisNext Maven ShirleyTemple gifted me, the fabulous FashionKitty, with a box full of Hello Kitty goodies! If you could have seen my face when I open

26 Jun 2008, 7:45 pm | click here for more

Incredible Gamer Earrings: Too Much, Or Just Enough? [Fashion]

So, I'm sort of on the fence about video game-themed earrings. I mean, nothing screams Hay Boyz, I'm a Gamer Gurl like game earrings, right? I mean, okay. My phone rings the radio samba mix of Portal's Still Alive, often while I'm wearing my "Solid Snake 08" campaign T-shirt. Either that, or my phone is making the Codec noise while I'm making crappy Harvest Moon animals out of polymer clay, but earrings? I may or may not possess some Mario mushroom earrings, but I often debate wearing them. But th

26 Jun 2008, 3:20 pm | click here for more

Western States 100 Miler - Cancelled

Western States 100 Miler - Cancelled Submitted by Ean Jackson on 26 June, 2008 - 09:11. The Western States 100-mile run is the grandaddy of every 100-mile runs. It started as an endurance race for horses along the old gold rush trails in California.  35 years ago, the first human challenged the field. The horse-racing history of the WS100 is why a lot of trail ultras have gaudy, big belt buckles as finisher awards to this day. To those who run 100-milers, 'States is the run you want to at lea

26 Jun 2008, 11:11 am | click here for more

112-point cpo checklist and what may or may not have actually occured with the vehicle acquired. Please read this very telling writeup below in his possess words: July 1st, 2008 - The Purchase Of A Certified Pre-Owned Saab: In August of 2007 the wife and I had a baby and decided we needed something bigger for family trips than the wife’s Forester, which we had been using as the “family wagon.” My stepson had just started driving as well, so we figured we’d give the Forester to him and would get

2 Jul 2008, 5:03 pm | click here for more

Twisting Seat Belt Buckles

Baby Toolkit has a great hack for keeping kids from fiddling with seat belt release buttons in booster seats: Jim flips the belt receiver before buckling in Ranger and pulling the belt taut. It actually works well enough in our car that the other adults in the family take a little longer to receive to the release button. We learned a related hack regarding car seat installation during our last visit to a car seat install technician. (Your police or flame department probably has one, and we'd... [V

2 Jul 2008, 4:55 pm | click here for more

TSA-friendly laptop cases coming soon

TSA-friendly laptop cases coming soon By Humphrey Cheung The Transportation Security Administration- those wonderful guys and gals that check your luggage before getting on a plane – is partnering up with luggage companies to produce a checkpoint-friendly laptop bag. The bags, made by Targus and Pathfinder Luggage, will be sold this fall and will have no extra clutter, buckles or cords that can fool X-Ray machines. The wish is that travelers will be able to just put the bag,

1 Jul 2008, 9:29 am | click here for more

July’s Live Music in Washington, DC

This month is yet another great month for live music in and around Washington, DC. My top picks for July include: The Neville Brothers are playing at The Birchmere on the 1st, but the show is sold out, but there’s still some great shows to attend, including: Randy Bachman, of The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive will be Takin’ Care of Business and celebrating Canada Day, Wednesday July 2, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. - $35.00 John Hiatt & The Ageless Beauties bring his guitar and piano and c

1 Jul 2008, 4:30 am | click here for more