Priscilla's Zine & Bookstore: December 8 Link Log

Friday, December 9, 2016

December 8 Link Log

This post was interrupted when some idjit knocked down a pole up near the top of Moccasin Ridge, thereby cutting off all electric power in Gate City and Weber City for a few hours on the coldest evening so far this winter. We sooo need to move beyond the idea of a "power grid." Anyway, December 8's Categories: Animals, Books, Crafts, International, Nice, Obituary, Zazzle.

Animals

It's a cat day. For those who don't know, although these animal pictures are the editor's picks of the cutest three out of fifty animal pictures the editor viewed, the caption below each picture links to a site where you can actually adopt a homeless animal similar to the one in the picture--possibly the same one. (The editor will probably, eventually, search lists further from home than Atlanta and New York City; currently masses of adorable pet pictures from East Coast states are still awaiting consideration.) If you would rather adopt a different kind of animal, you don't have to wait for me to check out that photo list! You can just go to petfinder.com and type in the kind of animal you're looking for; they list rabbits, horses, and other critters as well as all breeds and colors of dogs and cats.

Sophie from Atlanta: https://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/34417877

Prissy from Columbia, Maryland: https://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/35576868

Marshall from New York: https://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/35773845

Poem in memory of Sammy-cat:

http://downhomeinnc.blogspot.com/2016/12/thoroughly-poetic-thursday-z-for-sammy.html

Book

I've not read this one, but John Stossel recommends:

Crafts

Crochet kits from + :

http://marshasspot.blogspot.com/2016/12/kits-for-crafty-person-on-your-list.html

International

Lo peor es que muchos si tienen miedo...I mean (the way some things unconsciously activate the Spanish part of my brain probably interests me more than it does you), the worst part of this story is that a lot of these people do have reasons to be afraid if they're sent back home. As in "Get some kind of domestic work in the U.S. or starve on the street as a burnt-out, disease-infested hooker, 'too old' to compete at 19." As in "If you find a job and 'pay your ransom' with money from somewhere where the police don't know you, we won't have to kill you." People who "illegally immigrate" to places where they have no friends and don't speak the language just about have to be seriously afraid of something. We live in a world with a serious human overpopulation problem, and the technology that's displacing unskilled labor isn't helping.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/07/report-illegal-immigrants-using-magic-words-to-avoid-being-detained-by-border-security/

Wal-Mart at least seems to be trying. Oh, if you're trying to get through the winter by selling handcrafts, which I am, Wal-Mart is very trying.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/07/ready-trump-snub-walmart-announces-1-3-billion-investment-in-mexico-creating-10000-new-jobs/

Nice

Beautiful thoughts, shared in aid of firefighters. (Sponsors donate money if you comment.)

http://itsjustlife.me/inspiration/

A school for street beggars teaches them to move up to making handcrafts:

http://www.dailygood.org/story/1457/mumbai-s-signal-shala-tanaya-singh/

Obituary

John Glenn, age 95:

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/08/breaking-astronaut-and-former-sen-john-glenn-has-died/

Zazzle

Dog greeting cards...