War Hero "Accidentally" Euthanized

In Afghanistan, there was a soldier who found a large breed stray dog who became his best friend and later his and some of his comrades' saviour. When the soldier came home, he brought his partner with him and adopted her, Target, to his home to live with him. One day, Target got out and the neighbors turned her in to the local animal shelter. The next day, not the next week or month, the soldier went to that animal shelter only to find that his friend had been "mistakenly" put to sleep that morning.
I wonder if these type of mistakes only happen to this particular mentionable dog. I doubt it. In fact, I doubt that it was an accident at all. How are the animal rights or restrictions of animal-handling organizations if someones pet can be put to sleep the next morning after it is admitted to the "shelter?"

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/hero-dog-from-afghanistan-mistakenly-killed/6qhu3d3?q=Hero+dog&rel=msn&from=en-us_msnhp&form=msnhed&gt1=42007

We're Losing our Influence on the Global Stage

President Obama recently lost hold of the major economic deal he wanted to do with China and he is being denied several other deals too. Our country is losing its influence on the world stage of economics. No country wants to hear for the depreciation of the dollar to increase export...What happened there?http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101115/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_asia;_ylt=AkUv53Z47ezXrUH0fvKmqUes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNkMjdwbTU0BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAxMTE1L3VzX29iYW1hX2FzaWEEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMzBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNmdWxsbmJzcHN0b3I-

Indonessian Minister and first Lady's Handshake Issue

I was not aware that in Muslim belief it is frowned upon to make any kind of physical contact with any woman that is not your wife or family, but it is. So, since a muslim Indonnessian information minister shook the fisrt lady's hand the people were bothered by it and he responded by telling them that it was a foced contact.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101109/pl_yblog_upshot/first-ladys-handshake-with-conservative-indonesian-muslim-raises-eyebrows

Political Ad

In this political ad for Hickenlooper's gubernotorial campaign, he just states why he will not be making negative ads about his opponents. He says that everytime he sees one he feels like he needs to take a shower. I like this ad because this whole we've been talking about how all the politicians do is take shots at each other instead of making themselves look good and I think that what Hickenlooper did was the best thing he could do for his campaign.

Alternative link:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=75827

Weirdest Ballot Initiatives

This is like an article about all the silly propositions people tried to start and a couple that did.