My Chocolate dog loves rain and turtles!  (Hey! If it can get a zillion viewers on you-tube, maybe it will get me some more readers 8{D ).

I saw a story this week on ABC's World New Now about veterinarians using stem cell therapy for dogs and horses to cure or alleviate various heath problems.  They were specifically focusing on a dog that was getting the treatment for arthritis.  They were using the animals own stem cells by first, removing some fat, then a lab separated stem cells from the fat, finally the vet injected the stem cells in the joint where they were needed.  About 70% show significant improvement from this treatment.  Stem cell research has progressed more for animals than for humans because they don't have as many moral, legal, and political issues to deal with.

Am I the only one who thinks a year-long election process is ridiculously long in this age of instant communication?

Another story in the news recently is about the man who turned blue (actually silver-blue) from using large amounts of colloidal silver.  I wonder if the Blue Man Group is planning to sue.

I got myself a small digital recorder so when I get ideas in the middle of the night, I can just record them instead of writing them in a notebook, then discovering in the morning that the pen was out of ink.   I can also use it to occasionally record things and post recordings on this blog, or one of my other blogs.

A weird story out of England about why adopted children should be allowed to know who their birth parents are when they get old enough.  A pair of twins  who were adopted were never told who their real parents were or that they had a twin somewhere.  As young adults, the twins, one male, one female, met and felt an instant attraction.  Not knowing it was genetic, they got married.  Later, when the courts found out their background, the marriage had to be annulled.