Here it is – the ABC’s letter to the bars, telling them exactly how to run their business!

Instead of threatening us, this is how Kansas should ask people to wear their seatbelts.
Send an email to Kansas Department of Transportation asking them to Stop the Threats, and Embrace Life.

Topeka’s Gift from Gizmo Pictures

We decided to see how hard it would have been to photoshop Air Force One into some of our pics.
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After 43 years in Topeka, and after completing 47 trips around the yellow blob in the sky, Peka Sue the Hippopotamus at the Topeka Zoo is headed to the big river in the sky.

This magnificent, majestic creature will be missed….
Temporary Memorial Site

Al Sharpton denounced it as a racist insult aimed at President Barack Obama, the Post’s first response was “It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill. Period.” Not enough said Rev. Sharpton. New York Post Chairman Rupert Murdoch apologized Tuesday (2/24/09) saying he wanted to “personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted.” He then said the Post will work to be more sensitive.
“Mr. Murdoch’s apology comes only after almost a week of tens of thousands of expressions of outrage and disgust from people across the country,” NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement. “The offenders are still on staff and there are no measures being taken to increase diversity in its newsroom.”

When will we stop looking at everything through racial glasses?

These are some shots from my backyard this morning 11/12/2008
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