In Ontario where I am at the moment pit bulls are banned. If you owned one before the ban you can keep it but it cannot be outside even on your own property unless it is muzzled. If you take it for a walk it must be on a leash and muzzled. It has put an end to attacks and killings by pit bulls. Some may say that the government may be going to far but I support it. Nothing is too much when it come to protecting our children.
I'm leaning toward banning the breed. Just too many horror stories for there to be no basis for it. |
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God but pits can be beautiful dogs though, the bluecoats are something else.
And the only word I can of to describe the French poodle, the full size, I saw recently is "majestic". If I ever get a dog, isn't a doubt it would be a full size poodle, damn that dog looked so proud and tall. I don't like the whiphounds and the like, scrawny little bony things.
Re chihuahuas and other rat dogs, I'm just tired of seeing them, but they have the advantage of being like a cat in respect to size, and still being a dog in terms of pack mentality, i.e., submission to the alpha. So they're very popular, especially amongst urban dwellers, but I just see WAY too many of them.
I look at a pet dying in the following manner: if the pet has been loved and treated well, then it has been amongst the most fortunate organisms ever to live, and is far better off than many a human has ever been, is now, or will ever be.
I didn't either, until we 'inherited' one; a whippet. She's gorgeous, sweet natured, super intelligent (and stubborn!) and really unique. Unlike any dog we've ever had. Wouldn't trade her for anything. |
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Rigon of course you wouldn't, Because there's nothing you'd like better than to see Israel surrounded by enemies out to destroy her and without a friend in the world. You know as well as I would the end result would be. Why do you think I said what I said above?
Long and short, I'm trying to stop bloodshed, Easy, to find a way out of the spiral path to hell both peoples are on right now, and figure out a way to relieve--NOT increase--the pressures in the area. Aside of my virtuous intentions, of course, there is also the reality that the US cannot afford a charnel house in the area, not, at least, until we are off Mideast oil.
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To all: thank you for the kind words and sympathy. I've been preoccupied with this and just needed to tell it.
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Israel has fallen into the hands of the rightwing. Why would you expect me to support the sort of behavior that goes on in Israel? countenance the sort of politics that so many religious parties in Israel are imposing not only on Palestinians, but on Israelis themselves? Because of Israel's Parliamentary sytem, the minority religious parties wield a disproportionate power in their ability to make or break a coalition since none of the major parties wins outright majorities. And they wield that power with a vengeance reminiscent of their OT Jehovah. Their behavior in office is akin to imposition of Islamic sharia-law, and they are asking the same sort of authority in Israel that the mullahs enjoy in Iran.
I understand why so many of the rightwingers support Israel--they need the Red Cow found (hence the attempts at breeding the same by the Texan rancher), so they can build the Third Temple, because not until the Third Temple is built and destroyed can Christ return. So they certainly don't mind the repressive theocracy that the extremist Jewish religious parties are imposing. How you can justify it, though, is beyond me.
Nor does your pipe dream of the two peoples living together have the chance of a snowball in hell. Resources are too scarce, Palestinian birthrates too high, Israel can't afford either a unitary state or a two state solution.
My solution is best--by now it should be evident to you that I'm almost always right, and I am in this situation too. Open emigration, immediate citizenship and generous resettlement packages to any Israelis who wish to leave Israel and raise their children in peace and quiet. The dissolution of the state of Israel and its replacement by an autonomous Jewish territory for the small portion of Israelis who choose to remain, guaranteed by the UN and, if necessary, US power.
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I know your daughter doesn't want to piss off the neighbor, but she needs to think about the safety of others, too-- we had a similar situation years ago in San Antonio. A guy down the block had 3 dogs that kept getting loose and killing cats. Well, after they mauled my cat ( who luckily got away)-- I did some investigating by talking to neighbors and found out they not only killed some kitties (which the dog owner didn't care about), they also had killed a puppy and chased a boy into his home.... They jumped a fence and tore apart a cat in front of a 12 year old girl.
So I went to the owner, told him what his animals had been up to-- and that I wanted them contained. He hemmed and hawed and I told him that if his animals ever attacked one of my girls I would own his house, his BMW and everything else... then I told the Dad of the little girl who saw her cat killed in her backyard where the dogs that did it lived. I don't know what the Dad told the guy, but the wife of the dog owner came down to our house the next day and bawled at my husband that she hoped I was happy because her husband had the dogs put down.
Well, I was relieved... but I never asked them to do that. I asked them to maintain control. They chose to kill their animals instead of putting in a better fence. They didn't talk to us for years until they had a little girl-- then they seemed to "get it" -- that we were genuinely worried their pack of dogs would maim a child.
She needs to call the authorities.... she would feel terrible if that dog killed again-- what if it is a child next time?
I completely agree with you . This just happened and really, she can't think straight right now - fresh trauma - but this isn't over. Knowing my daughter, she'll come back around, and then get angry. Trust me, she is not someone anyone wants to deal with when she's angry. |
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As I said sting, it's complicated. The homeowner is a friend and neighbor, and he's unwell and terribly upset over this. The dog is his stepson's. The dog is vaccinated; she determined that. She and her husband are seeking remuneration through his homeowner's ins.
Still, she is being encouraged (by everyone including me) to have animal control take control of the dog but she's reluctant to do it...frankly she's not using the best judgement right now, she's so distracted. I'm hoping she'll change her mind. The public needs to be protected from this animal. Maybe she'll come to that.
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I agree there have been terrible atrocities but usually we seem to hear only about the ones that Israel have committed. We hear very little about the Palestinians crimes. Expecting hundreds of thousands of displaced Jews to go settle in Sicily doesn't make much sense to me. People want to go home and not some strange island most of them have never visited. The two peoples both have history in the same area and will have to find a way to live together.
But that's just it, zolace - more than half of the settlers of Israel weren't returning home, but were gathering there from elsewhere. I just figured that giving them a place to live that was fertile and more importantly, comparatively safe, would have been a better idea.And I totally disagree with you that only the atrocities committed by Israel were publicized. We hear about terrorist bombs and mortar attacks all the time; no one's holding back that news. |
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They understand the basics, yes, but there are many things they cannot explain yet. They can't explain the double slit theory, quantum entanglement, what exactly a string is, etc. I've even heard a scientist say in an interview "no one really understands it." It's always cute when the ignorant defend their statements. Quantum mechanics is, simply put, a list of postulates and the set of mathematics that plays by those rules. Your idea is an interesting one. If I want to get all philosophical and what not; Even if you could download your entire body particle by particle into a computer and run a simulation it would still just be a simulation. Your conscious and its "conscious" are then separate entities. (never mind that there are physical limitations on even quantum computing that make computers able to do such a thing physically unreasonable) As soon as you hit run.exe and it "comes to life" your experiences and its experiences become separate and, therefore, it is not an extension of you, it is a clone of you that will in time become entirely different from you. Now, on a positive note. If we could create a computer which could not only store conscious knowledge but also replicate biological organisms...then you'd have your intergalactic procreation. How is quantum entanglement explained?How is double slit theory explained?Unless I am mistaken, scientist are still trying to fully understand these things. double slit experiment is as understood in the same way that anything that follows F=ma is. You quite literally will learn about it, and go through it in detail, in either the first or second day of basically any intro QM course. I know what you are getting at. You are just using the word "understand" in some meaningless abstract way that doesn't correspond to what the word means in practice by scientists. Understand just means, really, that you have a mathematical structure that is one-to-one with measurable physical phenomenon, and there is absolute no mathematical structure, not F=ma, not relativity, not string theory, that is anywhere near as good as showing that its structure is really truly one-to-one with measurable physical phenomenon as QM is. I've looked online for explanations of quantum entanglement, all I can find are different theories. Explain to me how one particle can have the same properties of the other particle even if they are on opposite sides of the planet. |
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I don't personally support either side in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Neither side has historically comported themselves very well. It's actually our fault, you know - not just America, but all those who partook in the decision to set the borders in the middle east. The funny thing is, it didn't even really start after WWII - it goes back farther than that, when we created countries like Iran, Iraq and Syria after WWI. But when we decided (and I do think it was a good thing) to create a homeland for the Jews after the Holocaust, we should not have allowed its creation there. I know, that's the place they see as the "promised land" from their scriptures. But anyone should have been able to see that this was going to result in perpetual conflict. We fought WWII against the Germans, the Italians and the Japanese. My feeling is that the Jews should have been given their homeland carved from one of them. I usually suggest Sicily, because it's an island, with natural borders. Plunking them down in the middle of their historic enemies really doesn't seem to me to have been prudent, and the result should have been very predictable. As far as the conflict today, like I said, neither side has comported themselves well. Both are guilty of atrocities and of intransigence. We've attempted how many times to broker a deal? And neither side seems willing to truly accept the need to compromise. The real problem now is that we can't even walk away and just let them settle it, as we should, because Israel is a nuclear power. So if they lost, those weapons would fall into the hands of people who likely would do us harm. You ask "why has the left abandoned the Jewish state?" Well, the answer is simple - because the Jewish state has made themselves indefensible too many times by their own actions - like bombing whole neighborhoods to get one terrorist who MAY be taking refuge somewhere in there. The Palestinian authorities don't do enough to combat terrorism, and the Israelis react too harshly to it. And I see no end in sight.
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They understand the basics, yes, but there are many things they cannot explain yet. They can't explain the double slit theory, quantum entanglement, what exactly a string is, etc. I've even heard a scientist say in an interview "no one really understands it." It's always cute when the ignorant defend their statements. Quantum mechanics is, simply put, a list of postulates and the set of mathematics that plays by those rules. Your idea is an interesting one. If I want to get all philosophical and what not; Even if you could download your entire body particle by particle into a computer and run a simulation it would still just be a simulation. Your conscious and its "conscious" are then separate entities. (never mind that there are physical limitations on even quantum computing that make computers able to do such a thing physically unreasonable) As soon as you hit run.exe and it "comes to life" your experiences and its experiences become separate and, therefore, it is not an extension of you, it is a clone of you that will in time become entirely different from you. Now, on a positive note. If we could create a computer which could not only store conscious knowledge but also replicate biological organisms...then you'd have your intergalactic procreation. How is quantum entanglement explained?How is double slit theory explained?Unless I am mistaken, scientist are still trying to fully understand these things. |
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I suspect the super snoopy facility in Utah probably has everything.
You know, many years ago, when I was 19, the IRS sent me a rather large refund check that actually belonged to someone else... someone else who shares the same name as I.
This was long before I developed my current, bitter loathing of Unka sam and his minions. I took the refund check down to the local irs goon squad lair, waited in line a long, long time and finally found myself face to face with a irs demon.
I said, "Hi! I got this refund check yesterday but it's not mine. I filed my return months ago and have already received my refund. I think it belongs to someone else with my name."
Demon replied that it was unlikely that the check did not belong to me. I repeated my story. Eventually, demon took the check and said, "It's a good thing you didn't keep it. We would have figured it out eventually and you would have been in big trouble."
This is just another reason why we need the fair tax to eliminate the IRS and the concept that the government has a right to take as much of your income as they want. The fair tax removes their power and the ability for them to abuse it. But it removes the power of congress to pick your pocket which is another good reason for the fair tax. |
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'Recycled' is now the word for 'destroyed?' Can a citizen say that to the IRS when they are demanding documents from them??? Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found, according to multiple sources. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/irs-lois-lerner-emails-108044.html#ixzz355FlDpiG |
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I can categorically state that Lois Lerner's emails on any US government computer are backed up on tape, daily, and the tapes stored in a mine in Pennsylvania that you could house a small city in. This is SOP for the past twenty years. Now we've learned that everyone in that time period that she emailed ALSO had a mysterious computer crash that deleted ALL of THEIR emails.
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The Christians turn to Putin while Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev turn to Hussein and the USA for Snaps, Grants, Gifts, and Asylum......
Throughout the history, Christians of the mid. east have always relied on Russians and they have always helped the Christians. USA never ever has.
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Really it is kind of simple… The left wing used to be Democrats… Now they are progressives, they are not the same. Democrats helped people, progressives are full of hate.
I'm not a democrat or a progressive. I'm a liberal. What have labels to do with it? I guess i am not aware that liberals have turned against Israel. I have a distinct dislike for the treatment of ordinary Palestanians by Israeli's and an equal distaste for the terrorism against Israel. I do object to the blind American/Israeli supporters who can find no fault with Israel. I would only add that supporting the crimes against humanity that Israel commits on a daily and global regularity is unacceptable to most thinking people everywhere. Of course this would necessitate being aware of what is going on..... many are unaware of reality there, and basing their opinions on misinformation and a lack of accurate information. |
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I would only add that supporting the crimes against humanity that Israel commits on a daily and global regularity is unacceptable to most thinking people everywhere.
Of course this would necessitate being aware of what is going on..... many are unaware of reality there, and basing their opinions on misinformation and a lack of accurate information.
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You are right, it's not the pet's fault, it's the owner's. And now the pit will probably pay the ultimate price for it. As he should, unfortunately, if he's a danger and his owner won't take adequate care to ensure the public and other animals are safe.I know you all must be so heartbroken and so angry all at once.
Actually she did (briefly) put out an appeal on her facebook page just after it happened..... but I think now she's coming to grips with the grim reality of the situation. It's just so sad. |
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OMG! Did this just happen to your daughter? She is lucky she wasn't more seriously hurt....even killed by that pit bull. And, her poor pup? The dog owner should pick up the costs for her injuries, and the dogs. Unbelievable! I have zero tolerance for dog owners you cannot control their own pets, or don't give a damn. Too many pit bull attacks happening in our hometown, and elsewhere. Assume animal control has the dog and are holding it for rabies, or killing the damn thing. Hope your daughter gets better, sorry for her puppy.
Thank you. Won't go into the details, but daughter is pursuing action against the homeowner. But the pit is still there, and get this...there's a 9 month old baby in that household. |
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