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LOL, funny you mention that. This is the finger that I accidentally got in the table saw last spring, so I nearly did take your advice. I think that is part of the problem, a bit of the tip is gone and I suspect there is a bit of scar tissue right at the tip causing part of the trouble anyway. But I think I will otherwise pass on your sugestion. Thanks everybody, I guess I'll just have to keep slathering lotion on me. And pray for spring!

Technically I suppose I would be considered a farmer. We have a herd of meat and dairy goats. Chickens and rabbits too, but those are mostly for our own personal use, though if my chickens keep on the way they have been laying eggs, I may find myself sitting on a street corner peddling eggs. My main job is raising pet pups. It is a huge undertaking, and a LOT of hard work, both physical and mental. You need a vast amount of knowledge and experience to properly care for dogs. You have to know about nutrition, heatlh, genetics, grooming, construction, maintence, rules and regulations, including airline and government regulations, and although direct contact with humans is somewhat limited, you still need to sell pups, so you have to be a people person too and talk to and answer millions of questions about dogs to prospective customers. I have also had to learn about computers, much to my dismay, as that is the way to maket in this day and age. If you do it right, it is not an easy job. But there are a lot of good things about it. When you hear back from people you have sold pups to in the past and they tell you what a wonderful dog they have, it sure can make you proud.

Resolutions???? Actually, I like me pretty much the way I am. I'm so nearly perfect why would I want to change anything about me??? Sure, I could make resolutions about working harder, loosing weight, quiting smoking, and all that jazz, but if I made them and then broke them, I would just feel bad about it and why do something to intentially lower one's self estiem? So, if I loose weight, fine, that would be great. And I probalby will. But why add the preasure of forcing yourself to improve? There is enough day to day problems to suffer threw without making things worse by making promices you can't keep. Be happy everyone!

Actually that is not true. They CAN afford to advertise. They get andvertising FREE! Every local television station, newspaper, radio station ALL give free ads to humane societies. They may be set up as not for profit, but but that is not to ssay they aren't making a killing. (literally) They sell all the adoptable animals. Their work force is mostly volunteer, they get free dog food, they get contributions of cash and other items for the dogs, they also get reduced price or free vetrinarian care. There are also many internet sites heavily promoted that list only rescue/shelter dogs for adoption. These ads are also free, so there really is no excuse to put down any healthy animals, only those that are not adoptable due to advanced age, or illness or injury. Because of the push to spay/neuter pet animals, numbers in animal shelters have dropped dramatically in the past 10 years or so. As a matter of fact, in some areas of the country they are actually importing dogs from forign countries to fill the need for adoptable animals in the United States. The Save A Sato program has brought thousands of dogs into the US from Mexico and Puerto Rico. They literally gather feral dogs up off the streets and send them here. I shudder to think of all the diseases they could be risking the lives of peoples beloved pets over these dogs. They are often smuggled in and are not checked to be free of disease by a licenced vetrinarian. The key here is as someone else also mentioned, spay and neuter your pets. Unfortunaly, there are a lot of people who are just flat out irrisponsible. Many won't take care of their own children, much less a pet animal. It's a shame that the Humane Society of the United States spends all their money on lobbying congress to pass laws restricting pet ownership instead of coughing up some of the millions of dollars they recieve every year in donations to fund some free or low cost spay programs.

I'm going to be off the wall on this one.I think that is should be the parents responsibility to teach the children. Not the government sponsered school system. If parents are going to be bringing babies into this world, they should step up to the responsibility of raising them properly. They should not be so willing to turn over any major part of the children's education to the government. To have a public educational system is fine for the basics, the good old 3 R's (remember them, reading riting and rithmatic) Due to a very wide array of different religious beliefs this is one segment of the populations education that should be left up to the parents. And if you don't want to teach your children right from wrong, or be responsible for them, don't have any.

It isn't actually entirely the bacteria that would be the problem when eating raw meat. There are some internal parasites, especially in pork that can infect humans if ingested. Heating kills the parasites and their eggs. Now personally I love a good rare steak. There are people who can't even bear to watch me eat if the steak is cooked the way I like it. Since I'm pretty old, it's probably a safe be that raw meat won't hurt you, or I'd be long gone. Either that or I'm just a tough old bird that can handle it. I would think blood might actually be safer, as the parasites live in muscle tissue, not so much blood, but I could be wrong.

Pay Pal makes deposits directly to you bank, the bank would not have to have an online presense in order to do transfers. I use pay pal transfers to my bank all the time. Only problem is there is a 3-4 day delay in the time from when I withdraw the money from my pay Pal account until it gets deposited to my bank, which can be a real pain the the *bottom*. Especially when we all know with the computers, everthing is done in an instant.

Don't forget the video!!! But that is a bummer. Hopefully the other nameless one won't get you into too much trouble making obnoxious posts that people blame on you. I'd hate it if we had another sheepdog here. I manage to get in enough trouble on my own. And speaking of sheepdog, I once had a sheepdog that was deaf, so I named her Donename, which was short for don't need name, since she couldn't hear it if she had one. Might make a good handle for somebody.

I have to agree with you. People just want attention, and I think we have a new "most overused word" in the dictionary, racist. And to say HP did it on purpose is just stupid. It has nothing to do with any particular camara or camara company. I have owned a sony, and Epson, and a samsung, and none of them take good pictures of black dogs. Black dogs are virtually impossible to photograph decently, and I suspect the same it true for black people. So it really has nothing to do with black people, but somebody just wants to make a moutain out of a mole hill and piss and moan about how blacks are treated so badly.

Well, I've never had this happen. In the past few days my skin has gotten really dry. Especially the tip of my index finger. And since I use a roller ball mouse, my finger now just slides over it, can't get any traction and can't move my cursor worth a hoot. Especially bad when I'm trying to play Zuma, my favorite game, which I just finally got the game. Right now I have to lick my finger to get it to roll the mouse ball. Which of course, is going to actually dry it out more. Anybody have any ideas so I can have sticky fingers again?

Sorry you didn't get any responces. I'm not from Mexico, but I will be visiting there soon! Yippee! Haven't been for a couple years and have really missed our trips down there. We go to Al Gadones. (I think that's how it's spelled) just across the border, near Yuma Az. We get our glasses there, and I get my teeth cleaned, and we pick up various antibiotics for whatever may come to ail us over the course of the year. It is amazing how much cheaper all that is than here in the states. I was watching a show on PBS last night and it really mad me mad. All the jackasses in congress are fighting over the US health care bill, Here was this guy who, like me had no insurance and was in great pain from living a hard life. (he had a horse farm, which is physically demanding) and needed a hip replaced. Being self employed and no insurance the surgery here would of been between $80,000 and $120,000 but he had it done in Mexico for $13,000. And that included air fare there, pick up at the airport, to the hotel, then pick up at the hotel to the hospital, then back later to the hotel, and even a nurse to come check him at the hotel! Amazing! Now our government is going to force us to get insurance, which either won't cover our problems, or the deductable will be so high we could just go to Mexico and have it done cheaper! Got to hand it to you guys, you've got the health care thing well under control, wish you'd give the US Senators the secret!

What I hate most about being politically correct In the movement to political correctness we have lost one of the most important aspects of our lives, our very beings, our sense of humor. No longer can we tell jokes that used to give us those good healthy belly laughs, for fear of damaging someone’s delicate ego. No ethnic jokes of any kind, you can’t even get away with blonde jokes, or fat people jokes. It’s a sad state of affairs if you ask me. Instead of laughing and taking life in stride, people cringe and live in fear of being marked as a racist, or other such unsavory character. We seem to have forgotten that laughter is the best medicine. This political correctness is a plague upon the earth just as surely as the high rate of obesity has become. Undermining our very health with bad feelings instead of the laughter we would otherwise enjoy. About the only “group” left that is fair game for the jokesters in the world are Rednecks. My hat is off to all you Rednecks out there that have a back bone, and can take having a little fun poked at you without being reduced to a blubbering pile of goo on the ground. And if Ya’ll want to tell old fat lady jokes, or blonde jokes, or hey, even hillbilly jokes ya know what? I’ll laugh. Notice from BuffaloHelp: Quotes in quote tags.

Thanks for the input guys, I do really appreciate it. Money is too hard to come by to go squandering it for nothing. It sure does seem like there are always more and more people lining up to snatch your hard earned money one way or the other. You just never know anymore.

I heard on the news that it was the exact same woman that attacked him in the same manner a year ago. The news comentater even mentioned it looked like she was wearing the same red sweater. You would think if she had tackled him before they would of been watching for her. Anyway, why on earth would somebody want to tackle the pope? Due to the fact that he is so old, he could of been badly injured, I think one of the cardinals with him actually got a leg broken in the ensuing scrambling about. What a shame! I hope they don't turn her loose again. Heck, even if he wasn't the pope. anybody mean and nasty and cruel enough to tackle an old man ought to have a A$$ whiping.

LOL, you mean rich countries like Mexico????Because if they had it in the USA, nobody but maybe Bill Gates could afford it.Anyway, discoving the gene that causes asmatha is a long way from a cure. Not much you can actually do about genetics, except breed them out, and since if you start discusing the intentional breeding to improve humans you get called Hitler and rocks thrown at you. Maybe they are doing some work along the lines of gene splicing and that sort of thing, but with all the advances in genetics, we still don't know enough to get in there and start playing around with removing genes from peoples dna. What if the asmatha gene is tied in with the gene that controls some other important body function, like the automatic reflex to breath, or the ability to grow teeth or some such other thing. We just don't know enough yet to go fooling with mother nature.

It's called the Castle doctrine, based on "a man's home is his castle" and says he has the right to defend with deadly force if need be his "castle." We have it in Missouri too, fortunatly. I personally think it's a great law. I didn't work my rear off to have what little I do have to sit shivering in a corner while somebody steals what is mine. It actually covers you not only in your home, but also in your car. And pretty much in any situation where you believe your own life is being threatened. Granted, there are some things about this story that seem odd, but it is difficult to get the whole picture just from the 911 call. Since the call more or less seemed to end when he actually entered the house, from what I gather just from reading the posts, we don't know if he displayed a weapon, or threatened the woman in some way. Even without a weapon, a larger strong man can be a great danger to a woman. As the saying goes, God created all men, but Colt made them equal. I don't see much point in dragging every single one of these cases threw the court system. If you do that, it is the victum who will suffer, huge attourney fee's and possibly the ruination of thier lifes savings threw no fault of their own. Well, I sure won't argue that point with you! LOL, I live in one of those hick Missouri towns too. The good old boy network is in full force here for sure!

http://ps.becanada2.com/p/5/sales_QQ_becanadaQQ_QQcom Has anybody tried this type of software? I did all the reading up on it, and if it does what it says, it would be a great deal for me, but you know the old saying, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I am a terrible skeptic on these sort of offers. But I do spend hours and hours posting ads on line, it is tedious work and honestly, quite hard to keep up with, so this would be a big help if it works as it is supposed to. I just hate getting ripped off on garbage that doesnt work.

Just watched one of my favorite shows, NCIS. I get a real kick out of Mossad Officer Ziva David and her misuse and misconstrewing of commn American sayings. When you think about it, I can see where English could be a difficult language to learn. Considering the following phrases which can be highly confusing.

Sigh........I wish I was that talented! Those are really cool. I do good to crop out a puppy and paste it into another background. Graphics design is just way beyond me. Wish I could figure it out, I think it would be a lot of fun to try. I'm not even sure if I can get a picture to post here, but I'll give it a try. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Well, I think it's pretty cool. As far as cost, I don't suppose the maker of the car got paid a very high wage by the hour if you figure the time it took to do that much fancy woodworking. Making, sanding, fitting and finishing all those many wooden pieces was no easy feet. I'm betting he didn't have a woodworking pattern to go by either, since there isn't likely to be another one of those around. All in all, it's a pretty cool rig!

Ok, one liner replays are lousy for collecting my cents credits, but what on earth can you say other than, My God that is SO stupid!!!!???

So, how are you feeling now, you haven't mentioned any more about your ailment for awhile? Hope you have it under control and are feeling better.

Some one once made another post about removing snakes from an area, and mongooses were sugested, but I added a post about Wire Haired Fox Terriers, and I think that might work here too. Wire Foxes are not afraid of anything. And while it is unlikely they could do much harm to an elephant, at least all the barking and ankle bitting might be a fairly good deterant. and the barking would allert the villagers to the approaching marauding animals, so they could be prepared to help drive them away. They would probably have a lot of fun with the lions. A small pack of Wire foxes would drive the lions crazy zipping in and out heading and healing the lions to the point the king of the jungle may just well decide that he would turn his crown over to the yapping snapping dogs and find new hunting grounds.

I am sorry, but I have to strongly dissagree with you. The mentality that animals should live wild and free and man should not use them in any way is simply wrong. We as human depend on animals for food, clothing, and yes, companionship, and to help us share in our work. Saying we should not work elephants is just a step away from telling a blind man he can no longer use the services of his seeing eye dog because the dog has the right to be free of slavery to the man. Or that we should not ride horses, have aquariums, eat meat, wear leather or keep sheep on ranches and shear them because we want to have wool blankets. In not so modern times we depended on animals to plow our fields and take us to town, and feed and cloth us. The plains indians were totally dependant on the buffalo, the hides made their homes and clothing, and every part of the animal was used, even the sinue was used for sewing hides together.

Actually, I just saw that one for the first time last year. Kind of a dissapointment when he decided having a dog wasn't all he had hoped it would be. Personally, I really think all kids should have a dog, I did and look how great I turned out! My memory is bad too, can't think of the name of the one I like, it's one of those really old classic ones, where the old man is a Maceys Santa Clause and he thinks he really is Santa, and they end up going to court over his mental stability, and then the post office comes barreling into the court room with those thousands of letters to Santa. Anyway, that's probably my favorite. There are also some cartoon ones that are narrated by Burl Ives. I love the sound of his voice, so those are pretty good too.