Furry Friday: Walk 2010 pictures

I usually sleep 2am-10am, so being at work at 7am made it a "caffeine day" for me.  :)  I was tuckered out by the time the day was over.  I came back home and slept afterwards.

The official news is that we exceeded our $1 million goal!  We had about 5,000 animals and 10,000 people.  We were billing it as the largest animal/person walk fundraiser on the planet, and I'm guessing that we succeeded there too.

Last year, I posted photos of the 2009 Walk from everywhere that I could find them, whether I took the images or not.  This year, since I actually had the opportunity to go outside and see the event near my building, I'll include only the collection of photos that I took with my camera.  Other people had photos of the horse, goat, baboon, guinea pigs, and other species, but most of what I saw was the traditional domestic animal.

Here are my Livejournal galleries:
http://pics.livejournal.com/mellowtigger/gallery/0002fr59 (26 images, Walk For Animals 2010, my photos)
http://pics.livejournal.com/mellowtigger/gallery/0001hsbr (26 images, Walk For Animals 2009, not my photos)

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Other public galleries include:
www.facebook.com/animalhumanesociety#!/album.php?aid=203820&id=35867734713 (Facebook, official page)
www.flickr.com/photos/animalhumanesociety/sets/72157623826653179/ (Flickr, official page)
www.flickr.com/search/?q=ahswfa&w=all (Flickr, user-tagged images)

It was fun and rewarding, but it was also stressful and I'm glad that it's over with.  It's grown so huge that I've recommended next year they move it out to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.

i don't even know where to start

The importance of Miranda rights as a tool of accountability?  The need for surveillance everywhere, so citizens can watch the government as the government watches them?  The utter stupidity of where War On Drugs (originally a valuable concept) has taken us?  The need for booby traps in a house to take out intruders?

This story is just now making the news rounds, but apparently it's a few months old.  I'm not going to embed the video, because I know I have one occasional reader here that this film would tweak in a really bad way.  (This means you, Rena.  Don't watch the film.)

From the sound, I'm guessing that the corgi dies first, followed shortly afterwards by the pit bull.  The family kid (7 years old) is in the house.  Somebody gets charged with "child endangerment", and it's not who you'd think after watching this video.

• It turns out that you are required to give your name.
• Give them your name but nothing else.
• Ask for a lawyer right away.

http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/know-your-rights-bustcard

Never trust authority.