Better Fill up today

[Teresa]

How old is he / her? What color is he/ her? What did you name him/her? Where did you get him/her?
I am so jealous. I want another dog so bad, but we just aren't ready yet cause of our stupid schedules.

Do you need a picture of him taken and posted?? Do you need a babysitter? Do you need ...a... do you need... ahhhmmm... hell.. do you need me to hold him and kiss on him?

hahaha

[flo]

well, you gotta come see her.  She's 14 wks., fawn/black, and had her first doctor visit today.  Got her Sat.  Bunyards are going out of the dog business.  I had a "rescued" pug, 8 yrs. old, that I had to have put down.  That was 3 yrs. ago and just now ready for another dog.  They had an ad iin the Good News of adult pugs Free, so I called them.  By the time they got to my name, they were all gone.  I'm not surprised at THAT price.  But they did have 4 puppies left at close out prices, so I now have one.  Her name is Missy (the other was Sissy) and she's not quite a hand full yet and follows me EVERYWHERE.  Not sure I"m up to the housebreaking, but we're getting there.  She does seem to know her name already.  She's from registered stock, but I'lll probably not register her.  Dr. Fechter set her "operation" date up today. And this fits under this thread cause I can't seem to get her "filled up".  She does like her puppy chow.  I give her what I think she needs but she ck's at regular intervals just to be sure there's not some more in her dish.    I think her pic does need to be posted.

[Wilma]

It definitely does, because she isn't going to get any cuter, just more fun.  Makes me wish I could have one, but Bud wouldn't allow it in the house and what good is a pet if it doesn't live with you.

[Teresa]

Puppies are to be on full dry feed.
When we raised the Brittanies, ( I had 12 puppies)  Dr. Williams told me that until they were about 6-8 months old..( Sold all but 2 before that age)  I should have dry food out. He said that they would not over eat.In fact sometimes would eat less than if fed only a few times a day. But I fed them some wet canned food only once in the evening. We just filled an automatic feeder of puppy chow and they ate when they wanted, of the dry. But that they needed to eat whenever they were hungry or wanted a few bites. That they needed the puppy chow and not other dog food because their bones are growing so fast and it is higher in calcium that the other.

There.. you have my 2 cents. Take it and spend it or tuck it away for a rainy day.. LOL

And on Wednesday, I'll make a note to come by and take a picture of her and post it.. 
Plus I'll bring her a treat and spoil her a bit.

[frawin]

Oct-08  crude is trading at $91.40, down $4.31, Oct-08 Natural Gas is trading at $7.38, up $0.006

[frawin]

The Democrats keeping trying to make up reasons for high energy prices when they know that it is due to the Clinton Trade agreements which have made China and India the fastest growing energy consumers in the world. The energy shortage is due to China, India and Japan buying up all of the excess oil with the US dollars they have from trade with the US.  Until we develop alternate renewable energy and produce more oil that we control the situation is only going to get worse. THINK ABOUT THE BULL THAT THE DEMOCRATS PUT OUT ABOUT TAXING THE OIL INDUSTRY MORE, HOW WILL THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY DRILL ALL THE HIGH COST WELLS, BUILD ALL OF THE PIPELINES AND NEEDED INFRASTRUCTURE IF WE TAX THEM MORE. THE ONLY REASON AMERICA HAS HAD THE CHEAPEST AND MOST PLENTIFUL ENERGY IN THE WORLD FOR THE PAST ALMOST 100 YEARS IS DUE TO THE AMERICAN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY.
Congress has Ideas galore, but energy bill unlikely


by Houston Chronicle
Midland Reporter-Telegram
Published: Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:31 AM CDT
By David Ivanovich

Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- Drill, drill, drill.

Suddenly, oil and gas exploration is all the rage on Capitol Hill.

With energy prices a red-hot political issue, the Democratic-controlled Congress, in the midst of its final, three-week legislative sprint before the presidential elections, can't get enough of drilling bills.

Not that most Capitol Hill watchers seriously believe that -- in the absence of a major supply disruption -- any substantive energy legislation will actually emerge from this frenzy and become law.

"You don't pass energy bills in the heat of the campaign season," noted Frank Maisano, an energy specialist with Bracewell & Giuliani. Still, there should be plenty of action.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was crafting an energy package that would open new areas offshore to oil and gas drilling, with plans to bring the bill to the floor for a vote as early as this week.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has declared this "Energy Week" in the Senate, with votes on a series of drilling amendments possible.

Drilling gains traction



Republicans are widely viewed in this town as having gained some real political traction with their calls for expanded drilling.

GOP presidential nominee John McCain has been crisscrossing the country calling on the U.S. to "drill here ... drill now." Delegates to the Republican convention were chanting "Drill, baby, drill," while President Bush, during his Saturday radio address, all but goaded Democratic leaders for having ""ignored the public's demand for relief from high energy prices.

"This is their final chance to take action before the November elections," Bush said. "If members of Congress do not support the American people at the gas pump, then they should not expect the American people to support them at the ballot box."

House Republicans were out on the Capitol west front steps touting what they call an "All of the Above" energy strategy, which would open the federal waters offshore and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, while encouraging development of oil shale and pushing for construction of new refineries.

The GOP news conference, however, was all but drowned out by environmental activists chanting, "Spill, baby, spill."

Hoping to snatch back some of the political ground lost to Republicans, House Democrats -- in a significant policy shift -- are expected to unveil a bill that would allow coastal states to decide whether to allow drilling in the federal waters off their shores.

That potentially could pave the way for drilling off Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas -- all areas that have expressed at least some interest in drilling.

Gulf proposal



Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., will push a proposal to open portions of the eastern Gulf of Mexico -- an area oil and gas producers are most intent on exploring -- as well as other offshore areas to drilling, Bingaman said.

Last month, a bipartisan group of senators calling itself the Gang of 10 proposed its own plan to open new areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and southeast Atlantic to oil and gas drilling. That group, which has expanded to become the Gang of 16 and could swell to the Gang of 22, will be championing its own package. And Reid has promised to allow Republicans to bring their own drilling measure up for a vote.

But passage of a drilling bill remains highly uncertain.

Energy legislation, by necessity, must be written in a collaborative fashion, Maisano argued. "And we're not in a collaborative time right now."

The House Democratic package, for instance, is expected to hit the oil companies up with higher taxes, but Bush has threatened to veto previous bills that included similar language.

The plan also is likely to require electric utilities to generate a portion of their power using renewable sources like wind and solar. That provision faces opposition from Southern lawmakers.

House Republicans already are complaining about Democrats crafting an energy bill without their input.

"My guess is we're going to vote against everything they throw up until we get a process that's open and fair," said Rep. Joe Barton of Ennis, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Time for showdown?



The whole energy debate may be headed toward a high-stakes showdown at month's end, when lawmakers will have to vote on a resolution to continue funding the federal government during the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

Republicans are threatening to oppose that resolution -- and possibly shut down the federal government -- unless Democrats agree to drop a congressional moratorium that bars oil and gas producers from drilling in most of the federal waters offshore. Bush lifted a similar presidential ban back in July.

Two variables, however, could upset the calculus of the debate -- Hurricane Ike and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, noted Kevin Book, an energy policy analyst with FBR Capital Markets.

If Ike were to inflict the kind of damage on the nation's energy infrastructure Katrina and Rita did three years ago and send gasoline prices soaring, the political support for expanded offshore drilling could change quickly.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, meanwhile, has been examining why oil prices spiked so high this year. And an agency official testified on Capitol Hill Thursday. If the agency were to uncover real evidence of market manipulation, that could spark its own congressional stampede, Book noted.








     

[frawin]

Oct-08 Crude settled at $91.15, down $4.56 on the day, the back months were down in the $5.00 to $5.50 range all the way out, Oct-08 Natural Gas hasn't settled yet but is trading at $7.325, off by $0.049. For some reason the EIA did not post the weekly Petroleum Inventory Report, I am guessing it was due to Hurricane IKE and the Gulf Coast area inventories not available.

[Maude]

Here we go again, how did we get from crude oil prices to a pug puppy?
Maude

[frawin]

Maude, I was thinking the same thing, maybe if we check all of the post it will turn out that the puppy had gas, which would probably qualify the post for this thread.

[frawin]

Oct-08 Crude is trading at $94.475, up $3.325, Oct-08 Natural Gas is trading at $7.43, up $0.151.