Comments for Kari Andren http://kariandren.wordpress.com My digital binder full of clips Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:34:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Latest Venture by Christopher http://kariandren.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/latest-venture/#comment-528 Christopher Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:34:18 +0000 http://kariandren.wordpress.com/?p=339#comment-528 Give us links to all the pieces, and perhaps only do full-text of your best clips, stuff you'd send out. For just the small stuff, give the Patriot News those click-thrus so they can make some money on ads. Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS! -cgw Give us links to all the pieces, and perhaps only do full-text of your best clips, stuff you’d send out. For just the small stuff, give the Patriot News those click-thrus so they can make some money on ads.

Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS!
-cgw

]]> Comment on Putting puppy mills in the doghouse by Don'tBuyFromPuppyMills! http://kariandren.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/putting-puppy-mills-in-the-doghouse/#comment-501 Don'tBuyFromPuppyMills! Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:16:23 +0000 http://kariandren.wordpress.com/?p=291#comment-501 Stay away from PuppiesEverything.ca – the “Pet Store” in Stratford, ON on Corcoran Street.The owner will proudly take you on tours of their makeshift “pet store” telling the world "Yes, I am a puppy mill!"and their "quarantine" area. They think they’re in the animal business, what they're NOT is qualfied in any veterinary sense to be keeping the ill ones in their back room instead of sending them to an animal clinic. They lie to their customers and let the dogs die from malnutrition/ being taken from their mothers too soon, and that’s only what happened to me after we put a downpayment on a dog and went back to get it. The owner’s wife is aggressive and violent and says the Perth SPCA “Are her best friends” where complaints being filed are concerned. Don’t buy their animals and for God’s sake, breeders, sell them privately and humanely! They’re famous for taking your *downpayment* and then accepting higher prices from other buyers. Suddenly, your dog is “dead” when you go in to get it! If you go into these places and the animals look unhealthy, SPCA says to call them, that they aren’t allowed to go in without *cause*. But if SPCA is the “best friend” of the perpetrators, then don’t expect anyone to look after the animals’ health and welfare! What I have is a heartbroken kid who wanted to work to buy a puppy who has been devastated by this unprofessional dump's cruelty and desperation for money! Stay away from PuppiesEverything.ca – the “Pet Store” in Stratford, ON on Corcoran Street.The owner will proudly take you on tours of their makeshift “pet store” telling the world “Yes, I am a puppy mill!”and their “quarantine” area. They think they’re in the animal business, what they’re NOT is qualfied in any veterinary sense to be keeping the ill ones in their back room instead of sending them to an animal clinic. They lie to their customers and let the dogs die from malnutrition/ being taken from their mothers too soon, and that’s only what happened to me after we put a downpayment on a dog and went back to get it. The owner’s wife is aggressive and violent and says the Perth SPCA “Are her best friends” where complaints being filed are concerned. Don’t buy their animals and for God’s sake, breeders, sell them privately and humanely! They’re famous for taking your *downpayment* and then accepting higher prices from other buyers. Suddenly, your dog is “dead” when you go in to get it!
If you go into these places and the animals look unhealthy, SPCA says to call them, that they aren’t allowed to go in without *cause*. But if SPCA is the “best friend” of the perpetrators, then don’t expect anyone to look after the animals’ health and welfare!
What I have is a heartbroken kid who wanted to work to buy a puppy who has been devastated by this unprofessional dump’s cruelty and desperation for money!

]]> Comment on About Me by Chris Orchard http://kariandren.wordpress.com/about/#comment-461 Chris Orchard Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:09 +0000 #comment-461 ermmmmmm....shouldn't this be updated? :) ermmmmmm….shouldn’t this be updated? :)

]]> Comment on If Ben Roethlisberger taught you nothing… by How to Get Six Pack Fast http://kariandren.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/if-ben-roethlisberger-taught-you-nothing/#comment-246 How to Get Six Pack Fast Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:44:44 +0000 http://kariandren.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-246 Hey, nice tips. I'll buy a bottle of beer to the person from that forum who told me to go to your site :) Hey, nice tips. I’ll buy a bottle of beer to the person from that forum who told me to go to your site :)

]]> Comment on Contact me by Ray Dettinger http://kariandren.wordpress.com/about/contact-me/#comment-215 Ray Dettinger Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:49:15 +0000 http://kariandren.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-215 Hi Kari, I inadvertantly was sent to your website serching for information on Hunington PA State Prison. I read your story "Prison factories produce a range of items, including hope" which was pretty good. I used to be a federal maximum security pentitentiary officer decades ago so I am very familar with all things corrections. Also have a BS degree in the subject from PSU having done student interships at several prisons. One big problem is civilian unions and companies complain about prison industries exploiting cheap inmate labor (as in China and other counties do) which can out bid a private company's proposals to do the same work. This was/is a problem with the federal prison industries making army helmets and other military equipment. The inmates can work for 30 cents an hour vs $10.00+ an hour for a civilian company doing the same work. There is no competition or competitive bids for the work either. Then, there are human rights advocates that say prison labor is wrong much like other countries like China exploiting their inmate labor. There are always downsides to everything. Good luck Ray Hi Kari,

I inadvertantly was sent to your website serching for information on Hunington PA State Prison. I read your story “Prison factories produce a range of items, including hope” which was pretty good.

I used to be a federal maximum security pentitentiary officer decades ago so I am very familar with all things corrections. Also have a BS degree in the subject from PSU having done student interships at several prisons.

One big problem is civilian unions and companies complain about prison industries exploiting cheap inmate labor (as in China and other counties do) which can out bid a private company’s proposals to do the same work. This was/is a problem with the federal prison industries making army helmets and other military equipment. The inmates can work for 30 cents an hour vs $10.00+ an hour for a civilian company doing the same work. There is no competition or competitive bids for the work either.

Then, there are human rights advocates that say prison labor is wrong much like other countries like China exploiting their inmate labor. There are always downsides to everything.

Good luck

Ray

]]> Comment on A1 on Friday by Christopher Wink http://kariandren.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/a1-on-friday/#comment-172 Christopher Wink Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:46:19 +0000 http://kariandren.wordpress.com/?p=257#comment-172 A1? Not too shabby, Kari. -cgw A1? Not too shabby, Kari.
-cgw

]]> Comment on Honoring Lincoln by andrendevinmgsp http://kariandren.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/honoring-lincoln/#comment-168 andrendevinmgsp Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:02:07 +0000 http://kariandren.wordpress.com/?p=249#comment-168 interesting...i didn't know they made a big deal out of it...I mean they should but it's nice to see them recognizing a former president. and I always love what you write so...ya know...i'm a little partial...love ya! Devin interesting…i didn’t know they made a big deal out of it…I mean they should but it’s nice to see them recognizing a former president. and I always love what you write so…ya know…i’m a little partial…love ya!
Devin

]]> Comment on Illinois may hold your treasure by andrendevinmgsp http://kariandren.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/illinois-may-hold-your-treasure/#comment-136 andrendevinmgsp Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:46:44 +0000 http://kariandren.wordpress.com/?p=204#comment-136 Hey Kari this is great! I read the article and found it so interesting! And Congrats on getting the picture and sidebar. That is awesome and i am soo proud of you!!! Great work and i look forward to reading even more from you. Love you tons. Devin Hey Kari this is great! I read the article and found it so interesting! And Congrats on getting the picture and sidebar. That is awesome and i am soo proud of you!!! Great work and i look forward to reading even more from you. Love you tons.
Devin

]]> Comment on Blago banned from touching stimulus by Chris Orchard http://kariandren.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/blago-banned-from-touching-stimulus/#comment-134 Chris Orchard Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:53:08 +0000 http://kariandren.wordpress.com/?p=198#comment-134 The headline makes it sound as if political corruption is not the Governor's only problem. Whatever turns him on! The headline makes it sound as if political corruption is not the Governor’s only problem. Whatever turns him on!

]]> Comment on First Post-Dispatch byline! by Christopher Wink http://kariandren.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/first-post-dispatch-byline/#comment-127 Christopher Wink Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:11:21 +0000 http://kariandren.wordpress.com/?p=151#comment-127 Congratulations. Your clips are just freakin' fantastic. I can't believe you went from Bonusgate in Harrisburg to the Blagojevich in Springfield. Congratulations. Congratulations. Your clips are just freakin’ fantastic. I can’t believe you went from Bonusgate in Harrisburg to the Blagojevich in Springfield. Congratulations.

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