just a reminder I do commissions for art work.

Since people also like to know where there money goes .

Anything I do in the next little bit is going to be going towards a liberally estimated $900.00 vet bill to get Austin checked out.  If you have gone thru my gallery Austin is the littlest miniature schnauzer . He was a foster failure back in 2008, and we adopted him that year .

 
Austin needs :

bloodwork.$150
dental, he has a cracked molar. $150-$250
aspiration/biopsy of the lump on his chest. $90-$150
skin scraps taken from a few raised scally “moles” on his skin on his lower legs .$90-300
+ office vistit : $45.00

abt $900.00 total . 

Austin is still generally healthy. So blood work and dental should be first, skin and lump can probly wait up to a month. Although if he is going to  be knocked out for a dental that would be the best time to remove any lumps .

The  lump on his chest in a location that could be cancerous (lymphoma )I really want to get it biopsied . He also has scaly spots on his lower legs that are also at a higher risk of being malignant melanomas .

I really just want to get him in for the screenings hopefully it will be nothing but this is more then the standard $45.00 checkup cost .

when it rains it pours..

I am not asking for handouts . I’m asking for people to buy some art work I Do customs pieces .

paintings, prints,acrylics, and sculptures .

I’ll be doing a few sculptures once I return to CA .

In other news Matt my husband  has apparently found a new job. He had moved to IN back i n September while I stayed behind in CA to work. HE lost his job due to untreated ADHD in November he   and will be giving it another go. But he will have to move again to do it , and probably will not be settled right away .

I’m currently helping him wrap some stuff up here in IN  and hopefully  getting  his doctors stuff sorted out. My insurance doesn’t cover him in IN so it’s again out of pocket for me .

I do commissioned art work and web design . My day job isn’t terrible, I can get my regular bills paid , but I have a lot of things hitting me hard all at once right now and any little extra I can earn will be a blessing . see my  Etsy store and price lists here at [link]

I’ll be posting sculptures/Jewelry soon as I have a few completed.

If you’d rather buy “stuff” i also have a zazzle store
[link]

or you can pick out prints from Deviant Art . both have a smaller return and do take longer to clear paypal but at this point any little bit helps .

Gloria Allred demanding TV stations nix anti-abortion ad in Super Bowl

30 January, 2012 10:38:00

Women’s rights advocate/President of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education fund Gloria Allred has fired off a letter to NBC affiliates planning on airing an anti-abortion ad during the Super Bowl, demanding that the ads not be aired because of their inflammatory nature. Right to life advocate Randall Terry, who is running for President, has bought ad time to air the commercials which depict “in graphic nature, an aborted fetus and or fetal parts,” Allred asserts in the letter which was sent to eleven local affiliates that intend to air the spot. -more-

Peanut Gallery.. it is a presidential or political Ad, stations may NOT ban those adds

” the relevant Federal law – those stations CANNOT refuse those ads, because they’re campaign ads for a legitimate candidate for Federal office. WCAU, Chicago, said they wouldn’t run it, and are now defendant to Federal action initiated by Mr. Terry to force the issue. I’ve seen the spot – and anyone else who wants to – it’s on Mr. Terry’s website. “

RTDNA Files Comments Opposing Proposed FCC Issues/Programs Recordkeeping Changes

January 31, 2012 at 3:53 AM (PT)

Opposes FCC Policy The RADIO-TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS ASSOCIATION has filed comments in the FCC’s docket proposing new, more detailed record-keeping requirements including a standard form for issues and programs lists kept by broadcasters, saying that a survey of the organization’s members noted the “onerous burden” the new rules would place on stations. -more-

Noncoms Seek Carve-Out From Station Reporting Proposals

By John Eggerton — Broadcasting & Cable, 1/30/2012 5:03:18 PM

Public broadcasters have asked the FCC to exempt them from any new “burdensome” reporting requirements, arguing that their delivery of programming of interest to their communities is self-evident.-more-

Infographic: Music, movie & book biz bigger than ever

By Janko Roettgers Jan. 30, 2012, 3:30am PT

Is piracy really destroying the entertainment industry? Techdirt blogger Mike Masnick doesn’t think so, and he has some numbers to prove it. Masnick and his Floor64 colleague Michael Ho released a report titled “The Sky Is Rising” at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes Monday that shows how the global entertainment industry actually grew by 50 percent in the last decate, despite Napster, BitTorrent & Co. -more-

peanut gallery:….. told ya so… SOPA , PIPA not needed.

Obama green jobs program faces further investigation

By Gregory Korte,

USA TODAY WASHINGTON – House Republicans are expanding their probe into the Obama administration’s energy programs, investigating $500 million in green job training grants that placed just 10% of trainees in jobs, according to a government report. The program’s goal was to train 124,893 people and put 79,854 in jobs. But 17 months later, 52,762 were trained and 8,035, or roughly 1 in 10, had jobs. Those numbers come from an audit by the Department of Labor’s inspector general, which recommended that the administration end the program and return unspent money. -more-

American Exceptionalism Means Politicians Who Take Responsibility and Face Our Problems

Gary Shapiro, Contributor to Forbes

President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association

1/25/2012 @ 8:17PM

“To hear President Obama explain it in last night’s State of the Union Address, the real problem affecting job growth and economic recovery is that millionaires and billionaires don’t pay enough taxes. What a change from year ago, when the President spoke forcefully and eloquently about rebuilding America’s innovation engine. He mentioned the need for innovation last night, but it was your typical SOTU throw-away line, buried beneath mounds of class-warfare rhetoric. This might be good politics, but it won’t put a single American back to work. I heard brilliant oration but felt sad that President Obama chose to divide and campaign, and ignore our problems, rather than have an honest discussion of our fiscal reality, provide leadership and unite our country.” -Read More-

Aneesh Chopra leaving the White House, likely to run for Virginia lieutenant governor