Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Rin Nadeshico's Cephalopod-Friendly Schoolgirls









Rin Nadeshico

14 comments:

Akubi said...

Burma’s ruling junta today ordered the closure of the Maggin monastery in Rangoon, one of the monasteries at the centre of the September demonstrations, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. Maggin, which has a medical centre and hospice for the free treatment of HIV-AIDS patients, run by a woman activist who was arrested during the military crackdown, was given one week to close. Its abbot, U Indaka, and several of his monks were arrested during the crackdown and remain in prison...
Monastery Ordered to Close

Ogg the Caveman said...

The spider is a little weird.

Anonymous said...

In #3, is her decrapitated head supposed to be an octopus? Cute girls, but disturbing imagery in that one.

Akubi said...

Yes, I tend to think the decapitated head is a bit stranger than the spider. However, it looks like it is supposed to be a life-size doll and not a real person.

In other news, Vick was fined nearly $1 million for the care of his dogs. Woohoo!

Akubi said...

Oh, here's the Vick link.

Anonymous said...

In other news, Vick was fined nearly $1 million for the care of his dogs. Woohoo!

Good thing those dogs didn't all need heart-lung transplants or it might have been ten times that much. Vick deserves the shakedown, but half those dogs should have been put down. I guess he'll have to pay more when the dogs go into the old folks home too. Sorry to be so cynical, but I doubt those dogs would've gotten the blue chip health care plan if Vick were indigent.

Akubi said...

Well, not all of the pit bulls were necessarily fighters. Some of them could have been used as bait or may not have been trained yet. Even the fighting dogs can be rehabilitated with the proper treatment. Note that the pit bull rescue center housing 200 dogs costs 15K a month to run. Properly rehabilitating the 48 remaining dogs will be expensive so less than 20K per dog isn't all that excessive. I've even left more than that to my dogs in my will and they're hardly fighting dogs.

Anonymous said...

hi akubi,

I didn't mean to make that sound so indifferent. Your take on money is entirely different than mine. I have never spent more than $200 on a pet in my life. I knew a guy who spent $10k so his dog could have an operation. I thought that was the funniest thing I'd ever heard at the time. I'm guessing Vick may view money more like you do, so a million probably sounds about right.

Akubi said...

I have never spent more than $200 on a pet in my life.

What kind of pets have you had?!
After accidentally cutting Akubi's ear while grooming him before Thanksgiving (the groomers were booked), I've spent over $600 on him - and he hasn't even had his stiches removed yet! That's the last time I'll ever attempt to use scissors for a trim. Poms are so fluffy it's hard to tell where the fur ends and the dog begins.

Anonymous said...

What kind of pets have you had?!

Actually, none of them were mine. I got stuck taking care of four dogs at one time for about three years. Two brittney spaniels (quail dogs, not mine) and two laborador retrievers. All nice dogs. There was Suzy, Lady, Fanny, and Belle. They were all females. I fed them, and watered them, and made them houses, and played with them as if they were my own. I did their shots, and pills, etc. It isn't easy when you have to take care of animals on a shoe string budget, but I did, even the doctoring. Fanny had to get fixed, and one of them went to the vet for antibiotics. Other than that, I did all the doctoring. My wife's cat went a few times, even the cancer operation was only a couple hundred. She went in for the big sleep not too long after that. I won't let an animal suffer, and this one suffered more than she should have had to.

Ogg the Caveman said...

The Vick situation is somewhat different from a pet owner deciding how much they are willing to spend on vet care. He was the one that harmed the dogs in the first place, and it's perfectly reasonable to expect him to pay for whatever they need within his very considerable means.

Crude analogy: I might think it's unreasonable to spend more than $300k on a house. That doesn't mean that somebody who torches a $2m McMansion shouldn't have to make full restitution. That person has an obligation to make the situation right which is not affected by what I would be willing to spend on myself.

Vick's authority to decide how much he was willing to spend on his dogs ended when he hurt them.

Akubi said...

10 Benefits of Owning a Pet

Ogg the Caveman said...

11. They're fuzzy.

However, they can also make you stupid.

Akubi said...

On the stupidity level, dogs are worse.