The USDA has released a relatively complete set of inspections for Rabbit Ridge including the missing August 2nd inspection, as well as newer ones at the end of November. However, they did remove the inspection for November 29, but not before I got a copy (pages two, three, four, and five). Though the inspections state that the USDA APHIS inspector was accompanied by […]
Year: 2011
This morning I logged into Twitter, opened my HTML5 list, and started scrolling down the page to see what new outrage/toy/publication/conference was generating excitement today. Of course, I use “page” loosely, since Twitter uses the “continuous scrolling” technique to retrieve and display older tweets. You never actually get to the end of the page, you […]
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Cattlemen, all in a dither
The Missouri Cattlemen got together, and worked themselves up into a froth of anxiety about HSUS. You know that HSUS has to be doing something right when a meeting of cattlemen talks more about HSUS than cattle. Michael Parson was doing his usual: using his elected position to bully non-profits because he doesn’t agree with them. Anyway, […]
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Puppies may be going away
I am considering discontinuing this site. I want to focus more generally on animal issues, rather than only puppy mills in the state of Missouri. I’m also running into difficulties with getting records from the state and the USDA. Especially, and surprisingly, the USDA. Without the power of a team of lawyers behind you, it’s […]
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Kernel panics and nodes
Something is up with my VPS (virtual private server) the last 24 hours. I’ve twice had memory spikes that caused a kernel panic, which basically flat lined my system. I did find out I was using an outdated Linode kernel, so hoping this might have led to the problem. Otherwise, I’ll have to indulge in […]