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Jane Austin

Jane Austin's Journal
Jane Austin's Journal
August 13, 2012

Hospice did exactly this when my mother died.

Not only a huge waste of expensive meds, but morphine and Atavan in Lake Austin?

Yikes.

August 11, 2012

ZEGS

Zombie-eyed-Granny-Starver

August 11, 2012

That Ryan speech

was delivered amateurishly.

I don't think he's going to convince many people with that delivery.

August 8, 2012

This very small business owner has no illusions about big business.

Liberalism fits quite nicely with my business principles.

Probably the main reason small business owners tend to conservatism is that they're too tired trying to keep the business going to do more than watch the headlines on teevee news.

August 2, 2012

I don't know anything about equine competition,

but I did own two dogs who were the Number One All Systems Golden Retrievers for two years each.

Those dogs lived with their handler while they were being shown and it was all I could do to get to see them after a show. Before or during a show, I might distract them, but at any time my presence could distract them or interrupt their routine of training, exercise, feeding, or sleep.

At no time would I have thought to ask if I could take them around the ring a couple of times, knowing my poor handling skills could mess them up for the competition.

There is much more at stake financially with horses than with dogs, so there is no circumstance that I can imagine where a professional handler/ trainer would let an amateur ride a top competition horse.

I also can't imagine a top race car driver letting the owner of his team take the car around the track for a spin.

I would be surprised if Ann Romney had ridden Rafalka, but I suppose anything is possible.

It wouldn't be the first time the Romneys stretched the truth.

July 26, 2012

Small houses like Downton Abbey, and all those other

manor houses that dot the landscape.

July 26, 2012

I keep wondering why they're showing it non-stop in Texas.

Do they know something I don't know?

July 3, 2012

What's up with the fake glasses?

There's no correction to them at all. They seem like part of a costume.

June 17, 2012

I read that ABC

insisted on the safety line or they wouldn't broadcast it.

June 14, 2012

Can you give us the link?

Thanks.

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