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It seems like hardly a day goes by that you don't hear some outlandish story like this. It boggles the mind to think there are that many people out there that are really and truely that frigging crazy. Doesn't do much for one's confidence in the human race. I suppose I am not particulary compasionate in cases like this. Had she starved to death, well, at least we would be assured that her obviously defective genetic makeup would not be passed on to the next generation.

Wikipedia and accurate should not even be used in the same sentence. I hear very frequent reference to reasearch done there, how on earth can you take anything learned there when ANYBODY can go in and type any story/information they want to? It almost seems like many people think this site is for real and believe anything they see there, which makes it rather scary if you ask me.

Eggs are one of those foods frequently on the rollercoaster of pro/con health studies. One year eggs are terrible for you, next thing you know, they are good for you. I'm going to side the the "good for you" studies. We love eggs. Fried, boiled, deviled eggs, egg salad, just any way you can fix them. We have cut down this year on egg eating, but it has nothing to do with health reasons. Since the cost is up to nearly $2 a dozen (over that sometimes) we have cut way back. I still remember not long ago when they were 3 dozen for a dollar. Just last year I was getting them for 75 cents. The only good thing about this is now my hubby has decided that having chickens is not such a bad idea after all!

Has anyone heard any news about the proposed merger between North West and Delta? I am hoping and praying it DOES NOT go through. My local airport is not a particularly large airport, and only has a few airlines comming in. And since I am totally disgusted with Delta I really hope this does not happen. Delta's fares have always been higher, but last time I shipped a puppy they really burned me. There was another woman there with another pup, her's was a bigger pup, in a bigger crate, and they charged her $199 and charged me $231!!!! I was pretty upset. (if the connections could of been made to the destination city on North West, it would of only been $171.) The girls at the ticket counter could not tell me why my pup cost more. I called the cargo office when I got home and they said they would look into it and get back to me. Of course, that's the last I hard from them.

Well, now it's my turn. My dial up connection just kept getting worse and worse, and finally no way at all to connect to the internet. I finally decided to bite the bullet and go with satalite isp. Only problem is it is going to be over a week before the hook it up. So here I am at the public library pounding away with what little time you are allowed here online to keep my web site up and all my credits from running out. I could probably fix the old computer if I had a modem, but I am not sure that is what is wrong with it, and I hate like the devil to pay good money for a modem that I will only need for a week or so anyway. It's awful to be broke all the dang time. Even more awful not to have a computer I can check a dozen or so times a day in hopes of selling something.

Well, since I am now and have been for a long time, self employed, that would be rather counter productive wouldn't it???But yes, back when I had one, there were any number of times I wanted to pop him one. I actually did punch a wall one day, after he left. Made me feel better. Well, ok, it didn't make my hand feel very good, but the rest of me enjoyed it. Since this is a volunteer job and will soon be over anyway, I think if he/she was bugging me that much, it might be worth the satisfaction you get from taking the advice of that old country song and just tell him/her to "take this job and shove it."

There are faint signs of life all over here now. And I expect as the forcast for the next several days is for pretty decent weather, soon spring will be bursting out all over. Right now there is the faintest cast of green over the fields and roadways. I have a clump of jonquils in one of my flower beds, and they are up now, along with the Naked Lillies around the 2 purple leaf sand cherry bushes in the front yard. So far though, I don't see any swelling in the tree buds. I suppose that is probably a good thing, considering the disaster we had last year with the late freeze killing them. I sure hope that doesn't happen again! That thing your mohter used to tell you is absolutley true. You are far more likely to get sick from the great fluctuations of tempratures than you are if it is just cold and stays that way. Not only in people, I see this in the dogs too. I have long considered the building of a worm bin. Sure would be handy if I ever had a chance to go fishing. (yea, right, like that's going to happen!) Did you build yours or what did you make it out of? I thought about just using an old refrigerator or freezer to make one.

I can't believe our incredible luck! They were predicting a huge snow fall in our area, with the city of Springfield expected to get 2 to 4 inches, but our area 50 miles South east was supposed to get 8 to 12!!! I was horrified! I've had ENOUGH!!! Low and behold, when I got up that morning, all we had was a very tiny dusting of snow. Not enough to tell we had even had snow, you could only see what didn't look like much more than a heavy frost in some small shadded areas. As it turned out, we were in a small pocket in the middle of what was supposed to be the heavyest area of snowfall that didn't get any! Boy was I happy about that! Now, if it would just warm up!!! I'm tired of stoking the fire, cutting wood, and all that jazz.

After 50 years I'd say it is about time! I remember even when I was a little kid (and that's been a long time ago) his coming to the USA and going to Disney land and there was some big stink about it, but I don't remember all the details now. It just made a weird impresion on me as a child that stuck with me for all these years that somebody wouldn't like Disney Land.At any rate, since his brother is taking over, I don't suppose there is much hope for democracy or any improvments in the living conditions for all those folks over there anyway.

Sorry to hear about your bird. At least you have others in your household to kind of help ease the pain. Grief at the lose of a pet is very tramatic with most pet owners. Our animals become part of our every day life and the pleasure and company they give us becomes so ingrained in our daily routine it is very difficult to accept that they are no longer with us. It has been almost 2 years since my Standard Schnauzer Ebony died, and I still miss seeing her at my feet. But it is that companionship and pleasure our pets give us that keep us comming back for more. The life span of most of the animals we generally consider for pets is very short compared to human life. One has to learn to accept this and accept it. We will always have that special pet that lives with us forever in memory, but the new pets we get continue to inrich our lives with their own individual personalities.

This is absolutly an old wives tale. Withdrawal is in no way shape fashion or form a safe method of birth control. Ejaculate is made up of 3 seperate components. There is a pre-ejaculate, which contains fluid to clean out the tubes, the actual sperm laden ejaculate, heavily laden with sperm cells, and the the post ejaculate, which is mostly fluids that help flush the sperm out. HOWEVER, there is always some sperm cells in the pre-ejaculate that could cause conception. There is little or no feeling during the pre-ejaculate phase. And then there is the biologic and for some males impossible to resist urge to push instead of pull.....DO NOT even think about using this method.

Reasearch is always a good idea, the problem is, who's reasearch do you believe???? Have you ever noticed how you can often find completely opposite results from different sources when reasearching the same subject? And the results seem to change from year to year. One year the sun causes cancer, the next year it cures it. Vitamin C helps prevent colds, next year Vitamin C does not help during the cold/flu season. Eating a balanced diet provides enough vitimins, you would have to eat 7 bushels of vegtables to get enough vitimins and the list goes on and on and on and on.......... My best advice is to pay attention to your own body. How do you feel? Take vitamines, and pay attention to how you feel. Don't take them for awhile, and see if you feel better/worse. Remember to balance things and watch your diet. If you had a honey bun for breakfast, maybe a supplement that day may be a good idea. Eat healthy all day, maybe today you don't need one. Also watch for stressors in your life. Going to have to be out in a crowd and surrounded by lots of germs? Or have to get up early and work a little harder than normal and you know you are not going to get enough sleep? A supplement then may also be a good idea. I think everyone is an individual. Some may need more vitimins than others. The main thing is to know yourself.

Welcome to Xisto! I'm sure you will find it is a very intersting place, lots of cool people and a great way to get not only free but reliable web hosting. Now, as far as asking a personal trainer a question, the only thing I can think of is how in the heck can I do any more exercise when it takes every ounce of strength/energy I can muster just to get through my daily routine?????

If I get sick from some kind of cold or flu type illness, I don't get like anything. I just shut down. Completely. I do not function at all. My body temprature even drops, I am practicly comotose. I just crawl in bed and stay there till it's over. Fortunatly I hardly ever get sick. But when I do I'm really sick. Nothing makes me feel better. Except of course, getting over it. Now, if I'm sick cause I'm in pain, that's another story, I turn into a royal *BLEEP*. You've never heard the likes of the whinning and complaining like I can do when I hurt.

LOLOLOL.....thanks, I needed a laugh today. Don't know how old your granny is, but I ain't exactly a spring chicken myself, I may be a bit senile too. Don't dicount us old foggies too quickly, we can be pretty sharp sometimes. This reminds me of a true story that happened to one of my hubbies uncles. He had a tire fly off his car, as it happened, he broke down right by a local mental institution. One of the "inmates" told him to take one lug nut off each of the other wheels and put the wheel back on. The Uncle thought about it for a minute, it certainly seemed like a good idea, but then he wondered if he should take the advise of a crazy person, to which the crazy person responded, "Just cause I'm crazy doens't mean I'm stupid!"

Ok, I have to ask, where do we get the eggs that we don't get from our poultry?????? And guess what I got for Valentines day???? An egg! My very first egg from the chickens I incubated last year. I just thought that was so nice of them to give me for the holiday! (ok, so my life is not all that exciting, I still have fun!)

Good Grief....What an ordeal for a pulled muscle! The only good news here is you did have insurance. Now, for us poor folks, have you ever heard of DMSO? It's a great horse liniment, cheap, available for $6-7 at the local feed store. A bottle lasts forever. I've been using the same bottle for over 15 years. That would of fixed you right up for about a nickle! But if things are really bad, I do see a chriopractor. Our local bone cracker charges $20 for an adjustment.

Well, UPS gets my vote for first place. Our UPS man is a great guy, has been with the company for over 20 years and is always pleasant and courtous. Their service seems faster than Fed ex, but I haven't used FedX that much, only for recieving. DHL truly sucks. Only used them twice and both times they screwed up. The drivers were too lazy to get out of the rig and find me, and they were slower than snot, and not at all courtious.

On the tailpipe, is it rusted out in a straight enough area that you could cut an alunimum beer (or pop) can and wrap around the rusted out place? That would be cheap, and work good. You can tie the can around with either bailing wire (very cheap) or get a big radiator clamp, one of those that tighten down with a screw, should be able to get one of those for 50 cents or a dollar. You might need 2. I can't sugest anything for the shocks, every car I've ever had I've used to haul tons of dog food, and we blow out the shocks first thing, and don't worry about them anymore. The sputtering could be any number of things, bad spark plugs, timeing off, or if you got some crappy gas, that could cause it. We have a friend who has to work on his wife's car every time she buys gas at Walmart. The vibrating could be a tire out of round. They may need to be balanced. Or replaced. I hope this helps, car maintence can be a real expensive pain in the *bottom*. Good luck.

Well Watermonkey, we are definatly on the same page on this one! I agree wholeheartedly with you!Dog feces, while not especially pleasant, is certainly not fatal. And the thing about the grandmother threatening to bury him in the back yard, she might of just said that to get the cops to come get the brat. I know of several instances where parents have had children that were totally out of control that they could do nothing with, and when they called family services for help, they were told that they wouldn't help them. Maybe she was just trying to get their attention. And it worked! You know, we didn't have garbage like this going on back in the good old days when hickory switches were still in common use!

Wow, sounds just like the last waitress job I had. My boss was really a strange bird. We had this weird personality clash thing going. He fired me at least 3 times in the 3 or 4 years I worked there, but I never missed a day's work.(at least not over being fired.) After he would fire me an hour or so later he would cool off and come back and tell me that I could keep working. It was pretty funny really. I never really was sure why he was so weird around me. We got along pretty well most of the time. And I was one of the hardest workers he had, I was well liked by all the customers, so I'm sure that helped out a lot in keeping me employed. Once I got really sick and didn't show up, I had a friend call in for me the day before so he knew I was sick, but when I didn't call the next day, he actually came out to my house to see if I was ok. I was in pretty bad shape, so he called my folks, and my dad came out and got me and had me stay with them a few days till I got over it, as I was too weak to even get up and build a fire in the house, and I was about to freeze to death. So it was a pretty caring thing to do on his part. My advice, stick it out. Short term work historys don't look good to future employers. And I second what Vera said, "If you can master dealing with this guy, it sounds like there won't be anybody who will be about to break you. Think of it as a personal exercise in patience." Good luck, we're all pulling for ya!

I do believe that when Alexander Fleming first invented Penicillin in 1928 there was probably someone there with a Bible in one hand and their fist in the air, proclaiming that it was the work of the devil and should be shunned as it is the will of God as to who lives or dies. Every single advancement in science, technology, and medicine meets with opposition in its beginnings. Granted, some have merit, for instance the artificial sweeteners that came out and years later were found to be cancer causing. But for the most part, these advances are good for humanity and add much to our enjoyment of life and the longevity of our life spans. Well, yes. I guess I am saying that. At any rate it certainly helps. I decided to research your research and came up with some drastically different conclusions than you did. Research is funny that way, the source in which you obtain your information always has their own slant to the information. You quoted your information from Wise Geek. Some digging there on my part revels that Wise Geek is a collection of various writers, you can see contributors to the site here http://www.wisegeek.com/who-is-wisegeek.htm Pictures and bios are included here and I have to say, they sure look awful young. This is the bio for the writer of the article you quoted. I went one step farther and checked out her web site too. She had a list of reasons for an against a political candidate, and one of her reasons against him was he was soft on animal rights. Nothing there suggests any practical experience in Dairy Farming. And her position on animal rights is evident, therefore any research should be viewed with considerable skepticism and not taken on face value. Much like the PETA funded Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The American Medical Association calls PCRM a "pseudo-physicians group," has demanded that PCRM stop its "inappropriate and unethical tactics used to manipulate public opinion," and argues that PCRM has been "blatantly misleading Americans" and "concealing its true purpose as an animal 'rights' organization." I am not willing to take the advice of someone who bakes cherry pies and baths cats as gospel on Dairy Farming, sorry. Lets try a different source shall we? U. S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition FDA Prime Connection Cornell University - bST Fact Sheet http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Notice a few key words here, Some dairy farmers choose to supplement some of their cows. and protein hormone that occurs naturally in all dairy cows There is nothing unnatural about it. Your own words, Remember, if it's not found in nature, it's probably not good for you. You also imply that most dairy herds are treated with this hormone. It is simply not the case. You mention factory farms, a term used to refer to larger-scale farms. According to USDA, 99% of dairy farms in the U.S. are family-owned and operated. Thats right family owned. Not mega corporations. Every day people who work hard to make a living, just like everybody else. And let me tell you, running a dairy farm is no easy job. Its hard work, long hours and an completely inflexible schedule. Lets go to another source. Dairy farming today https://dairygood.org/ This is a great site, and give valuable input as to the modern dairy farm. Lots of good information there, check it out. A few excerpts from that site. So yes, I will have no qualms about drinking a glass of milk produced right here in the good old USA! The safeguards are in place to assure an excellent quality product. Why the Europeans reject dairy products is anyones guess. Perhaps they have been reading too many articles written by incorrectly informed parties, such as the afore mentioned Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Europeans have been far more deeply ingrained with animal rights issues then Americans. Tail docking was banned there years ago, and many of the Animal Rights groups we now consider terrorists here in the USA were started in Europe. Just some food for thought.

Oh man, your killing me!!!! Your an "older" poster and in your mid twenties????? Sheeesh. Your not even half my age! I think with any forum I've ever been on there are just hot and cold days. Weekends generally are slower, and holidays too. I think in the summer people spend more time outdoors. I know in the spring, I spend very little time on the old computer. Too busy with outdoor stuff, spring cleaning, garden planting, dog shearing, all that fun stuff. Which is why I need to get my credits up, cause once the weather warms up, I won't have much time to hang out with ya'all.

First of Febuary, I am so glad January is over. Not much longer now. I hate winter. Amazingly enough when my better half got home from running some errands today, he said he saw the Amish farmers out in their fields with the horses plowing TODAY! We still have snow on the ground here. Guess they want to get that good nitrogen into the ground from the snow. The seed catalogs are starting to show up in my mailbox, and we are allready thinking about what we should plant in the garden this year.

Oh cool, we have a Fiat X19 and a Spider! None of them running at this time, but I really did love the X19 when it was running. So fun to drive! And you would be surprised at how much stuff I could pack in it. Could you post a picture of your Croma, I'd love to see it, haven't heard of that one? We have a little cracker box car, a 95 Ford Aspire. I just love that 40 mpg. It's a great car, and has been very good to us, very few problems, and amazingly enough, it now has well over 250,000 miles on it. And they have been hard miles too. We completely removed the back seat, and that gained us a pretty fair amount of cargo space. After all, I haul puppies and not people so the back seat wasn't needed anyway. I can get 5 medium pet taxi's in the back. More if I use a few smaller crates. I have had nearly 1/2 a ton of feed in it a few times, though it does drive a bit squirly with that much weight in the back. We also have a small 4X8 flat trailer we pull behind it and have hauled a lot of feed and stuff on that. Even put the 4 wheeler on the trailer and haul it. Sounds like I need a truck doesn't it? Wish they would make a pickup that got 40 mpg, I'd buy one. I am sure gonna miss this little car when it finally dies. Notice from rvalkass: Merged double posts. Remember there is an Edit button below your posts. Use that to add to your post if no-one else has replied