Doggone Beautiful

WONDERFUL PIX-STORY AFTER A TORNADO

The story begins with the rescuers finding this poor little guy they named Ralphie.

Someone had already taken him under her wing but wasn't equipped to adopt;

Ralphie, scared and starved, joined his rescuers...

I wouldn't think anything could live thru this...

This little lady also survived that wreckage.

Here she is just placed in the car – scared, but safe.

and then... they are no longer alone!

Instant friends, they comforted each other while in the car.

Add
two more beagles found after that...
the more, the merrier!

Oh boy, a new traveler to add to the mix...
(note: the cat coming
over the seat needing shelter...)
now just how is this going to work??? (and remember they are all strange to one another)

It's going to work just fine, thank you very much!

If only all of mankind could learn such valuable lessons
as this. Lessons of
instant friendship. Of peace and harmony
by way of respect for one another — no matter one's color or creed.
These animals tell you... "It's just good to be alive and with others."
Yes, it surely is.
So... Live, love, laugh.

"Life's a Gift... Unwrap It!"

My thanks to the lady with the artful and graceful swirling dildo for submitting this story. God damned wonderful indeed! I do not use an euphemism here like in the title, being a lucky (in some ways, in others not) resident of Europe, where swearing is not (yet) a legal offence as in so many American locales... If you feel like swearing right now, let me at least give you a good reason for it: Death Squad in Delaware: The Case of the Murdered Marine. I emphatically recommend to read all the (so far) 45 comments here or here. That gift of life had been unwrapped but then was wrapped again and then discarded...

Richard G. Rieben

One year ago, on March 13, 2006, Richard G. Rieben, one of the sweetest, most ethical, most gifted, most important and most liberty minded human beings ever, tragically passed away in Malaysia, on one of his long travels. This site lost one of its main authors, especially regarding what collaboration had been planned to start that year. The world movement for liberty lost one of its strongest assets. I apologize to his family, to his friends and to all others that I have not yet been able to publish the promised extensive obituary and homage. It has during that year been too big a psychological problem for me, as the shock of his unexpected decease was too deep. I have not even continued the correspondence with his family and friends. It'll come. After a year of living with the unsolvable problem I may be strong enough now to tackle the work of writing that homage, but it is a huge one, and right now I am busy with other work that I cannot leave and which takes all my concentration. Please be patient with me still some more and please keep my friend Richard in wonderful, though sad, memory. To do that, and pending more to come on my sites, I urge you to read or reread the following:

In case you would like to reread the previous announcements of the tragic news, they are here:

This Awful Spring

PS: Having written the above, I felt like "groping" (this expression, in its familiar "erotic" sense, is not inappropriate or improper here) one of Richard's great philosophical books and pamphlets always at hand on my desk, took his Handbook for Liberty out into the bright sun on my balcony, later to my sofa, and enjoyed reading some. I now feel compelled to quote the following two paragraphs to mark this day and hopefully the future:

"Liberty is not a matter of enforcing anything for the betterment of people. The betterment of people is not a valid goal. Will it be a better world? You betcha! But that's not why we do it. We establish liberty, and upset the cultural conditioning, priorities, and philosophies of ten thousand years, because liberty is the natural, appropriate condition for the human being. In establishing liberty, we are not achieving anything, aside from a normal temporal condition.

Liberty is the base condition for homo sapiens. Liberty is not an awesome goal, it is a natural departure point. Yeah, groups got there first, and we've been in an awful muddle for an awfully long time, but in real world terms the human race has yet to begin. The adventure of human life on planet earth has yet to start. We're not even at the gate yet. Liberty isn't an achievement, goal, or end – it's a precondition for human existence, the beginning of the human race, the divine spark to human life."

Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 10:37 AM GMT+1 [Link]