politics

As many of you know, I am an avid animal lover, especially a dog lover and to be more specific, a pit bull lover. And right now, according to the NAIA Trust:

The Florida State House may consider lifting the ban on local breed specific laws. State Representative Perry E. Thurston, Jr. has introduced HB 189, following an interim report commissioned by the Senate Community Affairs Committee which recommended that local governments be granted the right under their home rule authority to enact breed specific regulations such as registering, muzzling, neutering, or destroying the dog.

Under the existing Florida Statute Chapter 767.14, local governments are prohibited from declaring a dog as dangerous based solely on its breed. While the committee recommendation does not go so far as to enable breed bans, it would allow restrictions and requirements based on breed.

(04 June 2007) -- Okay so I haven't pissed anyone off in my blog in a minute.  Or as SteamGeek (who is now going by the moniker of "The All Seeing Tree") would say, I haven't rabble roused in a hot minute so here I am.

I was searching for a topic to blog about because that's what I do in the early AM hours of the day and that's when I found it thanks to Invictus.

I was going through my all of my blog subscriptions and leaving comments when I had one and checking on my "space" friends that I hadn't checked on in a minute when I came across a picture that was in Invictus' profile.  The picture was that of a book (pictured left) simply entitled, Nigger.

Well, you know me ... that got the gears in my head spinning and voila!  Here's a blog.

Now,

(20 November 2008) On Tuesday, November 18, 2008, I had the amazing opportunity to have dinner with a friend of mine from high school, Gina (on my left [right if you're looking at the picture]), and we talked about a lot of things, most of which I won't talk about here but during dinner, she says to me, "You're an amazing writer."

That, of course, is an ultimate compliment for me, especially coming from her because she, too, is an amazing writer -- a lot of what she writes makes me jealous because she is absolutely phenomenal in her writing ability.

Anyhow, that being said, I was thinking to myself that I haven't written anything of substance in a very long time and I realized that I am missing that from my life so here I am writing again.

Now, I don't know how often or regularly I'll be writing, but I definitely need it.  Writing cleanses my soul and makes me feel whole.