shelbydearest

Oh man, what adventure! Take me here, please!
Why go, you may ask? Well…HAVE YOU SEEN IT!?
If you’ve ever seen Antarctica in pictures, you most likely want to go. It’s so gorgeous and…untamed?
Wow, I’m bad at describing things.
Let Nick Russill describe them for me, will you? He knows the words…his pictures are worth thousands of them. :]

Nick Russill Photography: http://www.nickrussill-photography.co.uk/

This is all I want for Christmas… A trip to Antarctica to sit with the animals and discuss life on the ice, while sipping tea and dodging leopard seals.

Sounds great to me.

Well, they weren’t in the wild, but it was still amazing!
...My 18th birthday present: swimming with beluga whales.

First off, it’s amazing…who cares if it’s indoors.
Secondly, everyone in the world should do this because it’s a great opportunity. How many people get to swim with belugas?

Seaworld is brilliant :] They make me pretty dang happy.
What they do is they take you behind the scenes to where they keep harbor seals and the beluga whales…I was privileged to see the newborn harbor seal pup which was amazing! You see how they feed the animals and where they prepare the food, then you get to go out into the beluga habitat. You sit on the side and learn about the whales, feed them, scratch their tongue and such…then if the trainers are comfortable, and you are too, you go for a little dip :] It was so awesome.

The water is around 50 degrees though, I should warn you. But you get a super sleek and sexy wet suit to look super sleek and sexy in.

Just to name a few reason Mr. President deserves a good kick in the pants:

_{Michael Moore reports:}

(*) According to the Institute of Medicine, “lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States. Although America leads the world in spending on health care, it is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage.” Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations, Institute of Medicine, January 2004.

Thank you George! And for this too:

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS (IRAQ):  3732     
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED (IRAQ): 27506     
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS (MIN):  70749     
'EXCESS' IRAQI DEATHS:     655000

Why, oh why, do you exist?
Shame on you, Mr. President.

100 mistakes for Mr. President: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/05/b64326.html

Michael Moore’s new one: http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/index.html