These aren't protests anymore.  They are full blown, organized riots against the government.  As many of you may know Ukraine has a lot of corruption and the people of Ukraine have a history of fighting against it.

 

These riots follow the new rules that the government tried to put in place to where protesting was made border line illegal.

 

Looks like Ukrainians didn't vote on that.

 

More about it here.

 

The pictures are crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

So I immediately though of Wool when I read this one...

 

The pollution is so bad there that the government now broadcasts the sunset on Hi Def televisions.

 

My only question to them is this:

 

Who has to get up on that televison...and clean.

So, I'm perusing the ARe newsletter and I see this:

 

Yep... that's right. Who needs dino-porn when you can get spider-porn. Sorry, but this is freakin' creepy. I mean... spiders???? Seriously??? When I see one in my house I actually consider burning the place down so this is just completely beyond my understanding.

 

BTW, if anyone is strangely curious, this one is free. I'm going to pass. *shudder*

I adore my dog. I love everything about her. She's just an amazing person. She's a pug mix and loves life with a fierce passion. Everything makes her face light up, and if dogs possessed the necessary facial muscles to smile, she would be permanently grinning. She loves lying in the sunshine, chasing seagulls at the park, wrestling with the cats and eating scrambled eggs. She loves swimming in the ocean and getting ice-cream on the way home. She sleeps in my bed with me every night and wakes me up in the morning, licking my face ready to enjoy another day. When I come home from work she greets me with unbridled joy, barking and wagging her tail so hard her whole bottom shakes. She is my constant companion. We watch TV together, we ride the train together and she likes to help me hang laundry. We go get coffee together in the city centre where she stalks pigeons while I meet with friends. She likes visiting the book store and she waits patiently while I shop for shoes. Every time we visit the bank she's utterly charming and earns hugs and treats from all the assistants. She has to sit in my lap every time I take a seat. She very insistent about this! She's travelled with me all over the UK, has been hiking with me and shopping through Glasgow City centre, has eaten at countless restaurants and spent hours on the back seat of the car. To me, she's perfect - bug eyes and all. And to me she has a heart and a soul and an endless capacity to love.

 

The Madman's Daughter was interesting in the way it challenged this idea - that animals are people - and explored what makes us human. This is an issue very close to my heart. I'm connected and strongly attached to all my animals and to think of them as simply animals, incapable of thoughts and feelings is a concept alien to me. This is why I refuse to eat meat. I'm not risking eating a creature with a soul. All my animals are so unique and complex, each with their own likes and dislikes, their own voices and their own minds. To think of them along the lines of objects, things to be scorned and looked down upon is, to me, revolting.

 

Juliet Moreau believes her father to be dead and finds herself alone and adrift on the streets of London, desperately trying to hold together a life. A ghost from the past appears, her father's assistant, Montgomery and she discovers that her father is in fact alive and well, continuing his scientific and experimental work on an isolated island following his exile from English society where his experiments were deemed too scandalous and controversial for the people of London to tolerate. Juliet accompanies Montgomery on his return to the remote island, meeting the mysterious Edward along the way, and on finding her father, discovers some horrific secrets and uncovers the truth of his banishment and the extent of his madness, or perhaps brilliance.

Most of the information in this book is very helpful and practical, but a few things are not as helpful. Everything, in my opinion, in the "keeping cool", the "using logic" and the "things they never taught you in school" chapters are all helpful and the information is good and reliable. But I feel like the scenarios that are about emotional problems rather than the physical problems (example: emotional problem- what to do when your best friend is moving away vs. physical problem- what to do if a mean dog is chasing you) aren't helpful. The ones that are more emotional rely more on common sense and what you feel you should do and not on facts and such. Overall, I liked this book because most of it is reliable and helpful. I just don't think that some sections are as helpful as the rest of the book.