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Yesterday's update was by far the largest one I have done to date. I didn't think that was going to
be the case, as I had no idea what to write about when I began it, that was why I just left the four
paragraphs from the previous day on there. As it turns out I had a lot to write about, so much in fact
that it bored my wife. I think it was probably because of the subject matter. Also I made reference
to airplane parts without really describing what they were, but I figured if you had never built or flown
an r.c. plane you likely were going to skip that section anyway.
I fear this update may go even longer since I really don't have anything to write about today. Nothing
in the news is worth posting about, well unless I really wanted to beat the dead horse that is the
situation in Iraq and I am so not going there. If you want to know the truth about what the world
thinks about the situation in Iraq (as opposed to the US Media blowing sunshine up your ass) just
read a paper or website based anywhere except the US. We are pretty much universally hated at this point.
Because I like to speculate, and love to look for worst case scenarios, imagine this; The US administration
continues to fight in Iraq, despite the whole UN asking us to stand down. The US then invades North Korea, even
as the UN advises against it. The UN then eliminates our position in the UN entirely. With us no longer
having a say, the rest of the countries decide that we are a major threat and must be eliminated. The UN makes
a unanimous decision to invade the US to free the rest of the world from the threat. The majority of
our army is still deployed in north Korea and Iraq, so it is no problem for the world's combined
military to land in Canada and begin their attack from there, being as the US/Canadian border is the
largest unprotected border in the world. Think about it, what country out there doesn't have a bone to
pick with the US? Our demise would be pretty swift. Hopefully, though, that will be the next video game
coming to a store near you and not the truth about what could happen if we continue the path we are on.
• I got an email a few days ago regarding my dogs. I sent an email back
in response but, just for fun I am going to post his email here. Unfortunately my exact response to
his email is on my old computer and I have no intention of taking the time to plug it back in to
quote myself. I remember what I was getting at, so I will write a new response, which may vary vastly
from the one I sent him. No offense intended, but out of curiosity, how do you read this type of article, or the dozens of others like it every year about the latest pit bull mauling/murder, and feel safe with your pets? Blog topic for a pit bull owner, eh?I will address his last point first. I know that dogs are basically wolves that have been tamed, and as such they already have it in their genes to kill. When dogs were domesticated, some of them were domesticated a bit less than others, like pit bulls. The thing is that your genes don't necessarily mean that you are going to be like your ancestors. You are a product of your upbringing, just as a dog is a product of theirs. If you get a puppy and truly love and nurture the dog from birth I bet it is a lot less likely to be vicious than a dog that you buy as a puppy then stick on a ten foot chain in the yard and forget about until the day it either dies or kills.
As far as dogs in general, I am afraid of them also. I am deathly afraid of dogs like rottweilers. Unlike the
mixed breed pit-bulls that I own, I have never seen a friendly rottweiler. Those dogs look like killers and
are killers. They probably don't get nearly as much publicity about killing children since any sensible
parent would not own one of those dogs if they had children, or vice-versa.
The other thing about pit-bulls is that I think they get a really bum wrap. Both of our dogs are identified
as 'pit-bull mix' which I think is code for 'we got no idea' at the local animal shelter. That way
when the dog decides to eat your family they can say, "well we did tell you that it was a pit-bull".
That being whether the dog had any pit-bull in it or not. I say this based on the fact that I was trying to
find a picture of a 'pure bred' pit-bull while trying to see if that was what our new puppy was, that was
when I discovered that the pit-bull can look like a labrador, or a dalmation, or a greyhound, while it is in fact
a 'Bull Terrier', I am not joking on this. The breed 'pit bull' is actually a 'Bull Terrier". I have
found many images that closely resemble both of my mild-manored dogs.
I actually read a lot more about the "Pit Bull" than I had ever known, while I was at that site.
It seems that the Pit Bull is getting even worse publicity than what I was thinking, as evidenced
by This Report,
which I will quote a bit of:
So why do some dogs attack?
The answer is quite simple really.
• Irresponsible pet owners.
• Irresponsible parents.
• Instigation by the "so called" victims themselves.
Although there are some bad dogs out there these are in the minority and the tendency is to blame the dogs and / or their owners without just cause.
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