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Thanks for your comments. Got word last night that Andy had one jump of 17'2" a new PR. Wow, what will next year bring? will write more when they return with details.
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Haven't been on here for a while. Spent last few days in Memorial Hospital. Had a little plumbing done. Went in for a Angio-plaste, Doc had to do an "Intervention" and inserted a "Stint" while in there, all is OK now. At home taking things easy for a few days. Gotta get...
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Looking for a place to train Andy. Ot could be a swimming pool. It needs a ledge for him to see as he jumps, not a sloping bank. If you know of a place please let me know about it. Need a place to get him ready for the upcoming World Championships in AZ.
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The Super Retriever Series, Splash Dogs Super Fly, competition took place at the Sports Warehouse in Reno, NV. this past weekend. There were two divisions of competition, the Amateur division for dogs jumping 18 feet and under and the Professional division for dogs...
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As I sit here I have heard that plane fly overhead a minimum of four times, spraying that 'harmless' chemical to kill mosquitoes. I did not take precautions against this chemical as we were supposed to be about 3 miles from the target area, with no wind drift.. This chemical is not harmless as...
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A recent news article made a great case for people wishing to reside in America to be caused to learn English in a specific period. A Liberian(not to be confused with a Librarian)man who had been a resident in America for an extended period BEFORE he was jailed on charges of molestation and...
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I actually like Barack Obama. He is fresh and witty, he has vices he freely admits to and he inhaled. In other words, he is honest, at least about himself. I appreciate his plans for the war on terror and he seems to understand the quandry in Iraq and it's broader part in teh war on terror. He...
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Did you read today's Bakersfield Californian (7-28-07) ? They ran my story of Prince Andy the Flying Puppy along with pictures, slid show and video. Very nice job too.
Not much to write about today, going to try to give my older lab a hair cut today, that should be fun?
The USA...
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Vallejo--The Sonoma County Fair Splash Dog Challenge was a success for local flying puppy "Prince Andy". On Friday Andy qualified for the "Open" Division by finishing 2nd in the Junior class with a jump of 14' 7". On Saturday, 6 month...
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ONLY THE BEST QUALIFY
The ASA youth program, also known as the Junior Olympic program, annually registers over 83,000 youth girls' fast pitch softball teams comprising over 1.3 million girls and 300,000 coaches who try to qualify for ASA Nationals each year in 2...
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List of Kern County Teams that have qualified for ASA post season play:
"A" division:
Bakersfield Babes 14u
Bakersfield Havoc 14u
Bakersfield Babes 16u
Bakersfield Mustanges ...
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Bakersfields ASA "A" Division Teams qualify for post season play.
The Bakersfield Babes 14u's of Coach Tim Ford qualifyied for the PCR 14 Regionals in Tulare along with the Western Nationals in Phoenix, Az. The Bakersfield Havoc of Coach Jess Morua also qualified for the...
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Eminent Domain was set up to ensure that the expansion of America, states, counties and cities would not be interferred with by private landowners and businesses intent on being greedy or just hardheaded by giving the government the power to take over certain land for the good of the many as...
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NEWSFLASH!!! DATELINE CANADA!!!!!
Canadian Indians theaten to block CN Railroad mainline railroutes in protest of poverty, lack of education opportunity and poor healthcare!
HEY! Wait just a doggone minute! How is this possible? Canada is a socialist society. A Classless society(no pun...
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ExxonMobile and ConocoPhillips heve pulled their financial backing and resources for the heavy crude refinement programs in Venezuela in the face of the nationalization of the oil industry in that country and ceding majority ownership and control to the government. Hugo said he was...
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Bakersfield teams qualifying for ASA Nationals:
BASA Blast 10u, Coach Linda Lamb 3rd Place
BASA Blast 12u, Coach Bill Senecal 1st Place...
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I just talked to Ryan's Mom. Here is the skinny. As of yet, he has not qualified to PLAY in the 07-08 season at FSU. He is waiting for the results of ACT testing to see if he will qualify. If he doesn't he will gray shirt this year and work on the academics the scholarship is actually paying for....
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We, the political bloggers, the opinionated Monday morning presidents and political wannabes who spend a good deal of our spare time wearing out our keyboards with our endless meanderings and rants and ridiculous vocabulary that would leave our peers in the real world pointing and laughing at...
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The story about the famous actor arrested in Bakersfield is really starting to get good. Tom Sizemore is now claiming the meth found in his car belonged to a prostitute named Keisha. According to the paper, Sizemore, “admitted to sleeping with a prostitute while his girlfriend was...
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Well, I am going to have to ask your forgiveness for my dated post, but it's been hard to make time to do much lately..AGAIN! I actually wrote this blog in my book the day it was making such a splash,a nd whilr the news itself may be out of time, the point I am going to make has legs.
Once...
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So I was listening to the news this morning while I was getting ready for work and I couldn't help but notice when Kyoshi Tomono (who, by the way, looks like an Asian version of my son) mentioned "diarrhea or gas with an oily discharge." Ew! Aparently there's a new diet pill on the...
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I have been very busy with life the last few weeks and have not had a chance to share much of anything with anyone, so forgive me if my rant seems dated. Two weeks ago I read about another of Hugo Chavez' policy decisions. It was in the second section on the third page and was only a short...
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I see English is close to becoming the official language of the United States of America, an English speaking country. Well, I suppose everything needs the support of some politicians who need to pander to a voting base and a few thousand bloggers to argue about it, but come on! This should...
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Every morning at six AM, my husband and I turn on the TV and tune in to the news while we are getting ready for work. Since we come down the hill from Tehachapi every day, we want to know the weather and the road conditions. We are, of course, especially interested in the conditions on the...
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So Cindy Sheehan has given up her fight against the war due to her perfectly understandable emotional, physical and financial exhaustion. She also cited the lack of the Democrats ability to do anything about bringing the war to an end. Well, they haven't accomplished much of anything else...
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I'm sitting here wondering... what are some of the things that people find most interesting on this website?
My favorite section is the Inside Guide; I love food and it's interesting & entertaining to read about other people's experiences. I've found a lot of great places through the Inside...
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As a man not given to hero worship, infatuation or celebrity fixation I don't do a lot of ga-ga stuff where the hoi-polloi are concerned, but I have made a few exceptions over the years and Dr. Stephen Hawking is one of them. As one of the most brilliant minds in history he has captured the...
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Quick question to all of you readers out there...
What is your preferred local news station? KGET, KERO or KBAK?
and Why?
Lately I've been watching quite a bit of cable news (mostly because I don't get home until after the 5p news is over), but I tend to watch KGET when I do.
Love Lori...
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He had to be man to die, he had to be God to be sinless. When Christ died on the cross, God saw this as the payment for all of our sins. Christ was our substitute. He died in our place. The Bible tells us many things about His love for us, one notible is Isaiah 53:6 "The Lord has laid upon...
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Here we go! Just as I predicted(along with about a million other conservatives), the Democrats are already pork barrelling bills just as they derided the Republicans for doing since 1996 and and breaking the promise the Dems made not to do it themselves while stumping for the last elections....
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You have multiple files that you decide you want to get rid of. So, you right-click and select 'Delete' and then it's gone, right? Wrong. This is because files on your computer are accessed through a file allocation table, which tells the operating system where in your disk a file can be found....
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Seeing this story in Californian brings me many questions. Some, I see have been updated. Like, where's the boy Travis? Well thank you for answering that one. But it doesn't give me comfort that he's in foster care. This story is really, all about him. He is...
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Today is World Water Day..um..OK..Whatever. It seems that anymore everything has its own day so I guess water may as well jump on the bandwagon. What brings this up is a pic/blurb I saw in the paper today that said one sixth of the worlds population has no access to clean water according to the...
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Don is my best friend in the whole world. I would have his back and he mine, no matter what, right or wrong, no hesitation, no questions asked. It's the nature of our twenty plus year friendship. One of Don's passions is gambling and the folks at Harrah's love him for it and show it by...
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It seems that the insurgency is alive, well and growing in Afghanistan, just as I have been saying it was and would all along. While the anti-war and anti-Bush crowd have been distracted by all the crap in Iraq, they have(again as I said they would)lost focus on the war on terror and now it's...
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I know this will bring comments, and I know not all of you will agree with me, but it's my heart's conviction. So, this is my public forum in which to speak. So from my heart......
I mean, we've all heard about her - whether by word of mouth, news, internet, her story is...
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Having just read about the riots breaking out, families and prison employees smuggling and turf wars over control of black markets on the inside, I almost thought I was reading about the meth or heroin trade in Californias prisons, but I wasn't. I was reading about the tobacco trade on the...
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Well, the teachers unions are at it again putting the education of our children in the caboose of the union powered Crazy Train and this time it is the Delano Elementary Schools that are in the crosshairs. The union is telling prospective teachers not to go to work there, trying to get existing...
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We are five years into the economic expansion and Americans are still waiting for their fair share with inflation swallowing pay raises. Businesses are hiring but forecasters fear the economy is about to stall. "If this is a recovery" the leader of the opposing political party said,...
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I see the state has decided to pass out 1.75 million bucks to help the farmworkers pay their bills due to layoffs after the "Big Freeze". I suppose it's a compassionate thing to do, but when I(along with many others)got laid off in 1980 when work ran out on the RR, nobody offered to...
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My grandson, Ryan Mathews, is almost famous! Well, around here, anyway. Anyone who pays any attention to the sports page or the sports section of the news knows who he is. It's kind of cool to have a celebrity in the family. He get's those "is that him?" looks from people when we are...
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How about that new girl on the block? Ain't she a dandy? All chuckles and grins and the sweetheart of the American left. Well, most of them anyway. I speak, of course, about Nancy Pelosi. Other than the fact that she is a liberal, I haven't had much of a chance to formulate a true opinion of...
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Oh come now! Another one? It seems that whenever a golden child/cause of the left is called into question it is automatically a cover-up or a vast right wing conspiracy. Today it is Global Warming and it's all Dubyas fault! I wasn't aware that it was a subject that was a secret to the masses or...
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The title says it all. Who cares about the do-gooders, indeed. Certainly not the homeless people that they are always trying to help. An article in the paper today spoke of the buildings opened at the fairgrounds to keep the homeless out of the cold. It was such a nice, caring gesture...
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Eliminating term limits(Venezuela has a six year term at this time)only saves him the trouble of terrorizing voters and fixing counts in the next election(or having his competition disappear!)and is certainly a bad sign for those who may re-think their position on him next time after...
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I saw a human interest story in the paper today and it reminded me of one I read a few years ago in the paper. It made me wonder if the writers or the paper itself has made a policy to look into the stories a little deeper than just writing what someone tells them. The reason I wonder this is...
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I see the IRS is at it again. This time blocking the distribution of funds raised to benefit the families of the firefighters killed fighting the Twin Pines fire in October. The IRS says the United Way, who handled the donati0ons, failed to follow the guidelines that seperate individuals or...
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Bakersfield's new free press.
Announcing The Arrival of a New, Free Press Paper
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH
With Bakersfield growing in leaps and bounds, becoming more diverse, (in step with it's ever widening girth) one would think this town already had a fist full of small,...
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It has been a week since I have had any time at all to write anything and that stinks. I am so tired of being tired, and this entire year has been like this. I have had virtually no time to sit and relax, although I have been able to spend a good deal off time off riding over the last three...
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