All categories - 17 June 2006

2006-06-17 23:20:29 · 10 answers · asked by the milky way 1 in Malaysia

2006-06-17 23:20:25 · 30 answers · asked by Wendy 5 in Comics & Animation

The bill replaces 10 taxes, including payroll, fica, social security, medicare, inheritance, savings, capital gains, gift taxes, business and corporaste taxes - and replaces them with a comprehensive consumption tax. With my $26k salary - I will recognize a 12% increase in take home pay. - I can pay the additional 1% out of the 12%. AND - all Americans will get a 'prebate' of the 'poverty' level that we don't pay taxes on. This year, as long as you earn the minimums, each adult will get $188 and each child - $65 - PER MONTH! Our economy will take off - and we will all benefit - Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Conservative and liberals. And it will take care of our poor folks and allow us all AND our 50 million visitors to contribute to our economy and our government. the FAIR TAX ACT H.R. 25.

2006-06-17 23:20:11 · 6 answers · asked by tomkat1528 5 in Civic Participation

The carnival is over by the seekers? thank you

2006-06-17 23:19:55 · 8 answers · asked by gruffle 3 in Internet

2006-06-17 23:19:46 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dogs

Since they went to Europe (Great Brittain)and spewed their hatred for the elected prisident they lost public support for their songs.
Now they come out with a new hate america cd.Radio stations here ask the listeners to vote on play or break ( broke won) is this reflective of the rest of this great nation .please no name calling or Bush bashing just simple straight answers

2006-06-17 23:19:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Lesson to be learned from typing the wrong email address:
A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a
particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they
spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Because of hectic schedules, it was
difficult to coordinate their travel plans. So, the husband left Minnesota
and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his wife flying down the following
day. The husband checked
into the hotel. There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an
email to his wife.
However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address, and
without realizing his error, sent the email.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned home from
her husband's funeral. He was a minister who was called home to glory
following a heart attack. The widow decided to check her email expecting
messages from relatives and friends.
After reading the first message, she screamed and fainted. The widow's
son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the
computer screen which read:
To: My loving wife
Subject: I've arrived Date: April 6, 2006
I know you're surprised to hear from me. They have computers here
now and you are allowed to send emails to your loved ones. I've just
arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared
for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then. Hope your
journey is as uneventful as mine was.
P.S. sure is freaking hot down here!!!!!

2006-06-17 23:19:27 · 8 answers · asked by sb 2 in Jokes & Riddles

This is for an assignment, so please be serious.

2006-06-17 23:19:16 · 11 answers · asked by mickeymaz 3 in Dental

2006-06-17 23:18:48 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

2006-06-17 23:18:38 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Adolescent

I call this Microsoft minutes as 7min is +- 12 minutes

2006-06-17 23:18:22 · 1 answers · asked by SAMASTER 2 in Software

I have two boys that will be attending U of Miami here within the next 2 years and then another in 4 years. At @45k per year, thats more than i have in 529's, 401k's and cds...Will anyone be able to float me a few bucks so my kids can go to a great college like me a nd not have worry about stupid loans? Comeon you deadbeats pay up and help a guy out.

2006-06-17 23:18:16 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Primary & Secondary Education

I met this guy online a year ago. I really like him and my intuition tells me he is a good heart. However, he has quite a past. Twenty plus yrs. ago...he left his wife and daughter. He then worked as a stand up comedian for two years. Then, managed a strip club for a few years. Did lots of drugs. etc.

Today, he is working in a hospital while finishing nursing school. He only has a couple months to go. He really seems to regret the past. Especially, leaving his daughter behind. He has also been recently diagnosed as having bipolar disorder....and has spent six weeks in a recovery program, getting some much needed therapy.

I'm scared of his past...and of his current conditions....but, my intuition tells me that he is a good person, who just needs someone. And, I need someone, too.

Should I give it a try?

2006-06-17 23:17:38 · 17 answers · asked by treefrog 4 in Singles & Dating

2006-06-17 23:17:28 · 3 answers · asked by unplugged 3 in Internet

2006-06-17 23:17:27 · 5 answers · asked by KESHAV B 1 in Singles & Dating

2006-06-17 23:17:24 · 60 answers · asked by Anonymous in Television

Today’s media is filled with sensational headlines of dog attacks. Routinely quoted in these newspaper accounts are dated statistics from the Centers for Disease Control. The last CDC study released documented which breeds of dogs caused the most human fatalities from 1979 through 1998. While the CDC did an admirable job of studying fatal dog attacks, and went to great lengths to point out that irresponsible owners were the cause of most of these incidents, the media and lawmakers continue to use CDC statistics to substantiate claims that certain breeds of dogs are inherently more "vicious" than other breeds.

The result of sensationalizing individual incidents of severe or fatal dog attacks, included with the use of unexamined statistical "evidence" has created an unfortunate and inaccurate public and political perception as to the dangerousness and predictability of certain breeds of dogs. Despite enormous public and political interest in fatal dog attacks, there is no agency or organization that does investigative work (with the exception of this study) into each of the individual cases of fatal dog attacks and records the number and circumstances of fatal dog attacks on a continuous, yearly basis.

This study is conducted in an attempt to understand the human and canine behaviors that contribute to a fatal dog attack. Only in understanding the events and circumstances surrounding these incidents can we hope to prevent future tragedies.

STUDY FINDINGS:
After reviewing over 431 cases of fatal dog attacks it is apparent there is no single factor that translates in a lethal encounter between a person and a dog(s). A fatal dog attack is always the culmination of past and present events that include: inherited and learned behaviors, genetics, breeding, socialization, function of the dog, physical condition and size of the dog, reproductive status of dog, popularity of breed, individual temperament, environmental stresses, owner responsibility, victim behavior, victim size and physical condition, timing and misfortune.

While many circumstances may contribute to a fatal dog attack, the following three factors appear to play a critical role in the display of canine aggression towards humans;

Function of the dog - (Includes: dogs acquired for fighting, guarding/protection or image enhancement)


Owner responsibility - (Includes: dogs allowed to roam loose, chained dogs, dogs and/or children left unsupervised, dogs permitted or encouraged to behave aggressively, animal neglect and/or abuse)


Reproductive status of dog - (Includes: unaltered males dogs, bitches with puppies, children coming between male dog and female dog in estrus)
It is necessary to emphasize that a fatal dog attack is an exceptionally unusual event. Approximating 20 deaths per year in a dog population of 53 million yields an infinitesimal percent of the dog population (.0000004%) involved in a human fatality.

THE BREED FACTOR
Many communities and cities believe that the solution to prevent severe and fatal dog attacks is to label, restrict or ban certain breeds of dogs as potentially dangerous. If the breed of dog was the primary or sole determining factor in a fatal dog attack, it would necessarily stand to reason that since there are literally millions of Rottweilers, Pit Bulls and German Shepherd Dogs in the United States, there would have to be countless more than an approximate 20 human fatalities per year.

Since only an infinitesimal number of any breed is implicated in a human fatality, it is not only unreasonable to characterize this as a specific breed behavior by which judge an entire population of dogs, it also does little to prevent fatal or severe dog attacks as the real causes and events that contribute to a fatal attack are masked by the issue of breed and not seriously addressed.

Pit Bulls in particular have been in a firestorm of bad publicity, and throughout the country Pit Bulls often bear the brunt of breed specific legislation. One severe or fatal attack can result in either restrictions or outright banning of this breed (and other breeds) in a community. While any severe or fatal attack on a person is tragic, there is often a tragic loss of perspective as to degree of dangerousness associated with this breed in reaction to a fatality. Virtually any breed of dog can be implicated in a human fatality.

From 1965 - 2001, there have been at least 36 different breeds/types of dog that have been involved in a fatal attack in the United States. (This number rises to at least 52 breeds/types when surveying fatal attacks worldwide). We are increasingly becoming a society that has less and less tolerance and understanding of natural canine behaviors. Breed specific behaviors that have been respected and selected for over the centuries are now often viewed as unnatural or dangerous. Dogs have throughout the centuries served as protectors and guardians of our property, possessions and families. Dogs have also been used for thousands of years to track, chase and hunt both large and small animals. These natural and selected-for canine behaviors seem to now eliciting fear, shock and a sense of distrust among many people.

There seems to be an ever growing expectation of a "behaviorally homogenized" dog - "Benji" in the shape of a Rottweiler. Breeds of dogs with greater protection instincts or an elevated prey-drive are often unfairly viewed as "aggressive or dangerous". No breed of dog is inherently vicious, as all breeds of dogs were created and are maintained exclusively to serve and co-exist with humans. The problem exists not within the breed of dog, but rather within the owners that fail to control, supervise, maintain and properly train the breed of dog they choose to keep.

CANINE AGGRESSION - AN OVERVIEW
It is important to emphasize that dogs bite today for the same reasons that they did one hundred or one thousand years ago. Dogs are no more dangerous today than they were a century or millennium ago. They only difference is a shift in human perception of what is and is not natural canine behavior and/or aggression and the breed of dog involved.

Examination of newspaper archival records dating back to the 1950’s and 1960’s reveal the same types of severe and fatal attacks occurring then as today. The only difference is the breed of dog responsible for these events. A random study of 74 severe and fatal attacks reported in the Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia, PA) from 1964-1968, show no severe or fatal attacks by Rottweilers and only one attack attributed to a Pit-Bull-type dog. The dogs involved in most of these incidents were the breeds that were popular at the time.

Over two thousand years ago, Plato extolled a basic understanding of canine behavior when he wrote "the disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don’t know...." Recently, this fundamental principal of canine behavior seems to elude many people as parents allow their children to be unsupervised with unfamiliar dogs and lawmakers clamor to declare certain dogs as dangerous in response to an attack.

Any dog, regardless of breed, is only as dangerous as his/her owner allows it to be.

Addressing the issue of severe and fatal dog attacks as a breed specific problem is akin to treating the symptom and not the disease. Severe and fatal attacks will continue until we come to the realization that allowing a toddler to wander off to a chained dog is more of a critical factor in a fatal dog attack than which breed of dog is at the end of the chain.

Only when we become more knowledgeable, humane and responsible in our treatment of dogs can we hope to prevent future tragedies.

2006-06-17 23:17:19 · 15 answers · asked by gothicmidnightwitch 2 in Dogs

2006-06-17 23:17:04 · 2 answers · asked by sriz 1 in Other - Computers

First in those two matches against Bernard Hopkins, that first decision was one of the worst in history of professional boxing and the second one also very contraversial. And then last night against Wright, it was a close fight but Winky won. I think that he was ahead by 2 points at the end (I don't know which fight that judge that scored it 115 - 113 for Taylor was looking at).

I have nothing against Jermain Taylor, he's a great boxer no question about that, but this is wrong. Winky Wright should be the world champion right now.

2006-06-17 23:16:54 · 5 answers · asked by balancepriest 5 in Boxing

2006-06-17 23:16:53 · 44 answers · asked by kihtraak 1 in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2006-06-17 23:16:51 · 14 answers · asked by JMac 2 in Family

2006-06-17 23:16:40 · 3 answers · asked by jatinkkrj 1 in Programming & Design

2006-06-17 23:16:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Family & Relationships

2006-06-17 23:15:58 · 19 answers · asked by unplugged 3 in Diet & Fitness

im a married man and im in love with a mrrried women, she too loves me lot .we have been phyisically involved and there are no chances of going back but we keep fighting coz we dont trust each other , we both are scared we will leave each other and go back to our real partners, what do we do to allways trust each other and live happyly for ever allthough being saperate?

2006-06-17 23:15:55 · 19 answers · asked by smartsin2k 1 in Marriage & Divorce

The death of Al-Zaqhawi, New elections, A government, were all supposed to bring stability to that nation. Fact is things have got worse over the last few days. American soldiers are dying, people are dying. Is it suprising that a new world poll puts America as a bigger danger to world peace than Iran?

2006-06-17 23:15:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-06-17 23:15:34 · 14 answers · asked by Tina M 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I must say I am very much annoyed with my own personality . I am frequently mis understood by others because I don't express myself properly . I took lot of steps like going to different social occations , joining clubs etc ..but nothing really worked for me till now. Now I am getting highly frustrated with myself .Please help.

2006-06-17 23:15:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sociology

2006-06-17 23:15:11 · 9 answers · asked by dimage221 1 in Other - Society & Culture