It’s that mid-point in the week that we all strive to survive to. The train’s moving with the next stop the weekend. A bit of good news from the homestead – our shelter dog who was diagnosed with heartworms a couple of months ago has been given the green light! It’s been a long couple of months for her (and for us). A couple of intensive treatments at the vet’s office, followed by “quiet living” for two months. No running, no barking, outside trips were limited and had to be on a leash. We had one scare, midway through the first month, where we spent a Sunday at the emergency animal hospital when she started coughing up blood. Quick work by the vet got her on some special medication and she pulled through. She’s not back to her old personality, yet. But I’m betting she will be shortly. Let this be a lesson for those of you who live in the South here in the U.S. – heartworms are a year-round threat these days, since it’s not often cold enough to kill off the mosquitoes that transfer the worms from one dog to another. The frightening thing is there’s apparently a new strain of heartworm that doesn’t respond to the usual preventive treatments. Bottom line - take your dog to the vet for the heartworm test. If it’s negative, start the monthly treatments and stick with them. It’s not worth the risk of exposure to miss a month.
Now, off to the news. And to kick-start things tonight we look no further than our hometown Arkansas Times blog that rounds up a great collection of all things Huckabee. And it ain’t a pretty collection for the other Man From Hope.
Murray Waas is back. In a lengthy posting on the Huffington Post, reporter Waas adds important new details to the story he reported for us in 2002 on killer Wayne Dumond and Gov. Mike Huckabee’s extraordinary advocacy of Dumond’s release from prison. Waas details evidence that Huckabee had even more reason than has been previously known to question whether [...]
On another issue, Huck’s gonna have trouble with this bit of honesty..
Clueless Huckabee for President
Oh my goodness this is priceless… Mike Huckabee sat down an “on-the-record dinner” with a group of reporters in Des Moines and low and behold he knew nothing, I repeat NOTHING, about the Iran NIE. As Jonathan Martin notes on Politico, “The transcript speaks for itself“: Kuhn: I don’t know to what extent you have been briefed or [...]
And, a response that doesn’t appease some folks…
Huckabee issues fake passive-voice CYA apology to dead rape victims’ families
Huckabee today is saying that he’s “sorry for what they’ve been through.” But that’s not a real apology. He’s saying he’s sorry that they’ve been through hell, but he’s clearly not taking responsibility for the hell that he personally put the families through. In fact, [...]
And, then, he showed up on CNN with a statement that (I predict) not prove to be a good thing for him to have said..
Huckabee to CNN: Parole Board members not telling the truth about Dumond case
Or, how about –
Ambers has a nuanced take on the Dumond case [...]
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