The Dog who goes to Mass, Waiting for Maria....

http://themetapicture.com/we-all-know-dogs-are-loyal-but-this-is-so-moving/

Read this.

Just
Poignant beyond words.



Lots of stories here on my little blog...

One here

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/dog-watches-over-navy-seal-at-funeral.html

And more stories and links
Here:

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/faithful-loyal-dogs-stories-to-make-you.html

Here's a
couple more..

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/bomb-sniffing-dog-eli-adopted.html

And here is good and evil in a nutshell


http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/respecting-life-of-throw-away-with.html

(Fashion or famine?)...Shoes giving you a blister? Wrong Pizza delivered? Try Famine, redux.

Bumping this up, from four years ago, 
to cheer a friend... ]
Here is the American Experience offering, on the unspeakable famine in Russia -- the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Five million Russians died.-- (Lenin afraid weapons would be smugggled in with food.. Hoover just wanted to feed the millions starving to death...)
The phtos are too gruesome to post.

One survivor testifies that he still remembers the taste of american corn and condensed milk. Hoover insisted the russian govt buy wheat to plant to end the famine. An interesting Muslim side story is in the film.

film preview:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/?film-online

Watch the full episode. See more American Experience.

So, buck up my friends. Your car is in the shop, your clothes are out of fashion, and your eating habits have given you a muffin top.

http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/about_us/index_byyears.html






but then
Here's the high fashion
among those at the top
 if the above is too depressing:

"Does this make my

head look stupid?..."

Serial Rapist: pictures of victims clear woman of false accusation claim

http://abcnews.go.com/US/pictures-accused-rapists-camera-clear-woman-false-rape/story?id=13382917

Manhattan, Kansas' serial rapist:

6 part story begins here

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/manhattan-serial-rapist.html