When it comes to the war in Iraq that "Bush" has fought as his own personal version of "Battleship", I often wonder how in the hell he came to the conclusion that this was going to be a "winnable" situation. Maybe he should have listened to some of the people who were trying to tell him things.
The more I read about the aftermath and what is going on over in the Middle East now, as a result of our "incursion" into this country the more freaked out I get.
Read on:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/10/27/eyewitness_to_a_failure_in_iraq?mode=PF
It seems some people never take advice, even when they should.
On another note, it feels like Florida outside today....yesterday temps in the 70s with high humidity and now today "hurricane type winds" blowing at 50-60 MPH. Too strange.
Time for work.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Another Brush with the Famous....
So...I had just come back to the hotel (work) to finish the daily paperwork after the bar had closed down late Friday evening.
I was on my way out the door heading back home when the bus pulled up carrying "Bob Dylan".......
I know, alot of the younger generation probably won't remember him (one of my servers thought he was a poet!!) and even for myself, his music , for the most part was a little past my generation. And if there were some songs he wrote and sang while I was growing up, it wasn't to my taste...but.....still it was cool to see him get off the bus with his "roadies" and walk into the hotel. What better thing to do at 3AM in the morning???
PS: He is playing in Kenosha at Carthage College tonight (saturday) and he and his group will probably sleep most of the day away in the comfy confines of the hotel, in order to be ready for their "gig" tonight.
A link about this great singer and songwriter if anyone feels like they need (or want) a refresher ont this guy:
http://bobdylan.com/links/
Who knows...he may order Room Service this afternoon and guess who delivers Room Service orders in the afternoon?? Anyone want an autograph of a music legend?
Email me......just kidding.
I have and never will be an autograph hound, though I do have some pretty nifty momentos from meeting a few different popular personalities: An autographed CD from Joan Jet (Remember "I Love Rock and Roll-Put another Dime in the Jukebox Baby") and a "secret service pin" from Senator Edward's staff. Those are the two most recent, though I also have a couple more "do-ditties" from a few other people.
What else is happening..havn't been feeling too hot the last few days....I hope I am not coming down with the Flu or something. I dont usually get sick but the last few days, I just feel totally drained. And this weird fall weather? It is the end of September, and I have had the AC on for the last few days. Tempuratures in the 70s...humidity at or close to 100% and bizzare storms blowing across the state this weekend. Too strange. I guess its not only us though. Alot of strange weather patterns across the nation the last few weeks. Oh well. Time for Bed.
I was on my way out the door heading back home when the bus pulled up carrying "Bob Dylan".......
I know, alot of the younger generation probably won't remember him (one of my servers thought he was a poet!!) and even for myself, his music , for the most part was a little past my generation. And if there were some songs he wrote and sang while I was growing up, it wasn't to my taste...but.....still it was cool to see him get off the bus with his "roadies" and walk into the hotel. What better thing to do at 3AM in the morning???
PS: He is playing in Kenosha at Carthage College tonight (saturday) and he and his group will probably sleep most of the day away in the comfy confines of the hotel, in order to be ready for their "gig" tonight.
A link about this great singer and songwriter if anyone feels like they need (or want) a refresher ont this guy:
http://bobdylan.com/links/
Who knows...he may order Room Service this afternoon and guess who delivers Room Service orders in the afternoon?? Anyone want an autograph of a music legend?
Email me......just kidding.
I have and never will be an autograph hound, though I do have some pretty nifty momentos from meeting a few different popular personalities: An autographed CD from Joan Jet (Remember "I Love Rock and Roll-Put another Dime in the Jukebox Baby") and a "secret service pin" from Senator Edward's staff. Those are the two most recent, though I also have a couple more "do-ditties" from a few other people.
What else is happening..havn't been feeling too hot the last few days....I hope I am not coming down with the Flu or something. I dont usually get sick but the last few days, I just feel totally drained. And this weird fall weather? It is the end of September, and I have had the AC on for the last few days. Tempuratures in the 70s...humidity at or close to 100% and bizzare storms blowing across the state this weekend. Too strange. I guess its not only us though. Alot of strange weather patterns across the nation the last few weeks. Oh well. Time for Bed.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Only a Few More Days to Go....
The election for the next president of the U.S. is coming down to the wire and most polls are saying that the two canidates are in a dead heat (tied).
At this point it is almost impossible to say who will come out ahead...but I think (and I am sure others do as well) that IT is time for a change of sorts. I honestly do not know if "John Kerry" should be that change....but I am willing to give him a chance. If nothing else, I think our goverment needs a "breath of fresh air" and I think Kerry will give that to us.
http://www.johnkerry.com/video/player.php?video=070904_ontheroad
http://www.johnkerry.com/video/player.php?video=072904_remarkable_promise
After seeing these videos, it is not hard to realise that, esp. in Wisconsin, there are alot of people who need and want a change.
I plan on casting my vote for Senator John Kerry this November. It is time for a change.
At this point it is almost impossible to say who will come out ahead...but I think (and I am sure others do as well) that IT is time for a change of sorts. I honestly do not know if "John Kerry" should be that change....but I am willing to give him a chance. If nothing else, I think our goverment needs a "breath of fresh air" and I think Kerry will give that to us.
http://www.johnkerry.com/video/player.php?video=070904_ontheroad
http://www.johnkerry.com/video/player.php?video=072904_remarkable_promise
After seeing these videos, it is not hard to realise that, esp. in Wisconsin, there are alot of people who need and want a change.
I plan on casting my vote for Senator John Kerry this November. It is time for a change.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
What did I tell you??? The MARK OF THE BEAST IS HERE
I knew it was just a matter of time before this happened (and I think I ranted about it in one of my previous blogs).....Actually, I think that it is kind of a cool idea if it is used right...but there are so many ways that it can be used wrong (and it probably will be).
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October 14, 2004
Identity Badge Worn Under Skin Approved for Use in Health Care
"From the Online New York Times"
By BARNABY J. FEDER and TOM ZELLER Jr.
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for a Florida company to market implantable chips that would provide easy access to individual medical records.
The approval, which the company announced yesterday, is expected to bring to public attention a simmering debate over a technology that has evoked Orwellian overtones for privacy advocates and fueled fears of widespread tracking of people with implanted radio frequency tags, even though that ability does not yet exist.
Applied Digital Solutions, based in Delray Beach, Fla., said that its devices, which it calls VeriChips, could save lives and limit injuries from errors in medical treatment. And it expressed hope that such medical uses would accelerate the acceptance of under-the-skin ID chips as security and access-control devices.
Scott R. Silverman, chairman and chief executive of Applied Digital, said the F.D.A.'s approval should help the company overcome "the creepy factor" of implanted tags and the suspicion it has stirred.
"We believe there are far fewer people resisting this today," Mr. Silverman said. But it is far from clear whether implanted identification tags can overcome opposition from those who fear new levels of personal surveillance and from some fundamentalist religious groups who contend that the tags may be the "mark of the beast" referred to in the Book of Revelation.
In Applied Digital's vision, patients implanted with the chips could receive more effective care because doctors, other emergency-room personnel and ambulance crews equipped with Applied's handheld radio scanners would be able to read a unique 16-digit number on the chip.
The chip does not contain any records, but with the number, the care provider would be able to retrieve medical information about blood type, drug histories and other critical data stored in computers. The records could be easily updated.
Tiny radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags similar to VeriChip have been embedded in livestock and pets in the millions in recent years as a more secure form of identification than external tags.
But no device maker has yet been able to create a market for human implantable tags like VeriChip, which are the size of a grain of rice and are inserted under the skin of the arm or hand with a syringe.
Applied Digital's distributors overseas have achieved some highly publicized, if limited successes. This summer, Rafael Macedo de la Concha, Mexico's attorney general, announced that he and scores of his subordinates had received implanted chips that control access to a secure room and documents considered vital in Mexico's struggle with drug cartels.
Also, Solusat, the sole distributor of VeriChip in Mexico, says about 1,000 people have received the chip implants to link to their medical records. "You can have all the benefits of radio identification," a Solusat executive, Antonio Aceves, said, "but now it is inside your body."
In March, the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona began offering VeriChips to regular patrons who wanted to dispense with traditional identification and credit cards. About 50 "V.I.P.'s" have received the chip so far, according to a spokesman, which allows them to link their identities to a payment system. The program has been expanded to a club in Rotterdam also owned by Baja, and about 35 people there have signed up for the implants, the company said.
VeriChip announced last week that it had signed a distribution agreement with a British company, Surge IT Solutions, which it said intended to use the technology to control access to government facilities. And Antonia Giorgio Antonucci, an Italian doctor, is leading a study using VeriChip at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome.
"We want to see if the doctors think the device is practical or not," Dr. Antonucci said.
Applied Digital has been free to sell VeriChip in the United States for nonmedical applications, but lack of acceptance of the technology made F.D.A. approval for medical uses a high priority.
"I've believed all along that the medical application was the best, followed by security and financial applications," Mr. Silverman said.
Still, the science-fiction specter of a nation of drones tagged with sub-dermal bar codes may be a difficult image for the company to overcome in selling its technology.
Online conspiracy theorists, for example, often attach abilities to the technology that do not exist, like the ability to track individuals via satellite.
But real privacy concerns have emerged.
"At the point you place the chip beneath the skin, you're saying you will not have the ability to remove the ID tracking device," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public interest advocacy group in Washington. "I think, increasingly, if this takes off - and it's still not clear that it will - the real social debate begins around prisoners and parolees, and perhaps even visitors to the U.S. That's where the interest in being able to identify and track people is."
Indeed, the debate over civil liberties and privacy has made discussing any practical benefits of a technology like VeriChip harder.
"The fact that we're engaged in such a deep, fundamental privacy debate really does complicate the prospect for this kind of technology," said Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a regulatory research group in Washington. "We haven't even sorted out the appropriateness of a RFID tag that goes on a pallet of tomatoes," Mr. Crews said, "much less one that can go under a person's skin."
Applied Digital has tried to counter such concerns by arguing that the implantation of chips is voluntary and the only records linked to a VeriChip will be those authorized by the person with the chip.
But critics say that if the technology gains a foothold, employers, government authorities and others with power over individuals could dictate how it is used. For instance, if chips were to replace dog tags as military identification, the decision would not be up to the discretion of individual soldiers.
The evolution of radio identification technology also concerns some critics. Passive tags like VeriChip do not broadcast radio waves and cannot now be used to track a person's movements. And current scanners cannot read the passive chip from more than a few feet away. But design advances or the addition of a separate power source for the chip could expand those ranges and make tracking possible.
Mr. Silverman has said that the current chip could help managers of high-security installations like nuclear power plants locate people in the building because scanners in doorways should be able to track who enters and leaves a room.
Applied Digital has VeriChip distribution agreements with companies in several states, but those have been largely dormant. It said it hoped to find big medical distribution companies to market the chip to doctors' offices, specialty clinics and emergency rooms.
Dr. Richard Seeley, Applied Digital's medical adviser, said the company would concentrate on winning acceptance of the chip among patients with complex problems like diabetes, which require them to see many doctors, and those with disorders like Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Seeley said the company was also talking to large orthopedics companies to demonstrate the value of linking the chip to medical devices like hip and knee implants.
Mr. Silverman said that surveys had shown that 14 percent to 22 percent of people would consider having the implant, but more than 80 percent of those surveyed said they would consider having the implant if the question was framed to show a medical benefit from the chip.
Applied Digital, which has been losing money for years, cautioned yesterday that it did not expect substantial revenue or profit from VeriChip anytime soon. But investors were optimistic enough about the F.D.A. news to send the company's shares up 68 percent, to close at $3.57 yesterday. Shares of Digital Angel, a subsidiary of Applied Digital that makes animal tags and manufactures the VeriChip, rose nearly 29 percent, to $3.49.
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What next? I think we should all shave our heads to make sure that 666 hasn't been engraved in our skulls while we were sleeping. I may not have long to wait as each day I loose more and more of my hair......
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October 14, 2004
Identity Badge Worn Under Skin Approved for Use in Health Care
"From the Online New York Times"
By BARNABY J. FEDER and TOM ZELLER Jr.
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for a Florida company to market implantable chips that would provide easy access to individual medical records.
The approval, which the company announced yesterday, is expected to bring to public attention a simmering debate over a technology that has evoked Orwellian overtones for privacy advocates and fueled fears of widespread tracking of people with implanted radio frequency tags, even though that ability does not yet exist.
Applied Digital Solutions, based in Delray Beach, Fla., said that its devices, which it calls VeriChips, could save lives and limit injuries from errors in medical treatment. And it expressed hope that such medical uses would accelerate the acceptance of under-the-skin ID chips as security and access-control devices.
Scott R. Silverman, chairman and chief executive of Applied Digital, said the F.D.A.'s approval should help the company overcome "the creepy factor" of implanted tags and the suspicion it has stirred.
"We believe there are far fewer people resisting this today," Mr. Silverman said. But it is far from clear whether implanted identification tags can overcome opposition from those who fear new levels of personal surveillance and from some fundamentalist religious groups who contend that the tags may be the "mark of the beast" referred to in the Book of Revelation.
In Applied Digital's vision, patients implanted with the chips could receive more effective care because doctors, other emergency-room personnel and ambulance crews equipped with Applied's handheld radio scanners would be able to read a unique 16-digit number on the chip.
The chip does not contain any records, but with the number, the care provider would be able to retrieve medical information about blood type, drug histories and other critical data stored in computers. The records could be easily updated.
Tiny radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags similar to VeriChip have been embedded in livestock and pets in the millions in recent years as a more secure form of identification than external tags.
But no device maker has yet been able to create a market for human implantable tags like VeriChip, which are the size of a grain of rice and are inserted under the skin of the arm or hand with a syringe.
Applied Digital's distributors overseas have achieved some highly publicized, if limited successes. This summer, Rafael Macedo de la Concha, Mexico's attorney general, announced that he and scores of his subordinates had received implanted chips that control access to a secure room and documents considered vital in Mexico's struggle with drug cartels.
Also, Solusat, the sole distributor of VeriChip in Mexico, says about 1,000 people have received the chip implants to link to their medical records. "You can have all the benefits of radio identification," a Solusat executive, Antonio Aceves, said, "but now it is inside your body."
In March, the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona began offering VeriChips to regular patrons who wanted to dispense with traditional identification and credit cards. About 50 "V.I.P.'s" have received the chip so far, according to a spokesman, which allows them to link their identities to a payment system. The program has been expanded to a club in Rotterdam also owned by Baja, and about 35 people there have signed up for the implants, the company said.
VeriChip announced last week that it had signed a distribution agreement with a British company, Surge IT Solutions, which it said intended to use the technology to control access to government facilities. And Antonia Giorgio Antonucci, an Italian doctor, is leading a study using VeriChip at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome.
"We want to see if the doctors think the device is practical or not," Dr. Antonucci said.
Applied Digital has been free to sell VeriChip in the United States for nonmedical applications, but lack of acceptance of the technology made F.D.A. approval for medical uses a high priority.
"I've believed all along that the medical application was the best, followed by security and financial applications," Mr. Silverman said.
Still, the science-fiction specter of a nation of drones tagged with sub-dermal bar codes may be a difficult image for the company to overcome in selling its technology.
Online conspiracy theorists, for example, often attach abilities to the technology that do not exist, like the ability to track individuals via satellite.
But real privacy concerns have emerged.
"At the point you place the chip beneath the skin, you're saying you will not have the ability to remove the ID tracking device," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public interest advocacy group in Washington. "I think, increasingly, if this takes off - and it's still not clear that it will - the real social debate begins around prisoners and parolees, and perhaps even visitors to the U.S. That's where the interest in being able to identify and track people is."
Indeed, the debate over civil liberties and privacy has made discussing any practical benefits of a technology like VeriChip harder.
"The fact that we're engaged in such a deep, fundamental privacy debate really does complicate the prospect for this kind of technology," said Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a regulatory research group in Washington. "We haven't even sorted out the appropriateness of a RFID tag that goes on a pallet of tomatoes," Mr. Crews said, "much less one that can go under a person's skin."
Applied Digital has tried to counter such concerns by arguing that the implantation of chips is voluntary and the only records linked to a VeriChip will be those authorized by the person with the chip.
But critics say that if the technology gains a foothold, employers, government authorities and others with power over individuals could dictate how it is used. For instance, if chips were to replace dog tags as military identification, the decision would not be up to the discretion of individual soldiers.
The evolution of radio identification technology also concerns some critics. Passive tags like VeriChip do not broadcast radio waves and cannot now be used to track a person's movements. And current scanners cannot read the passive chip from more than a few feet away. But design advances or the addition of a separate power source for the chip could expand those ranges and make tracking possible.
Mr. Silverman has said that the current chip could help managers of high-security installations like nuclear power plants locate people in the building because scanners in doorways should be able to track who enters and leaves a room.
Applied Digital has VeriChip distribution agreements with companies in several states, but those have been largely dormant. It said it hoped to find big medical distribution companies to market the chip to doctors' offices, specialty clinics and emergency rooms.
Dr. Richard Seeley, Applied Digital's medical adviser, said the company would concentrate on winning acceptance of the chip among patients with complex problems like diabetes, which require them to see many doctors, and those with disorders like Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Seeley said the company was also talking to large orthopedics companies to demonstrate the value of linking the chip to medical devices like hip and knee implants.
Mr. Silverman said that surveys had shown that 14 percent to 22 percent of people would consider having the implant, but more than 80 percent of those surveyed said they would consider having the implant if the question was framed to show a medical benefit from the chip.
Applied Digital, which has been losing money for years, cautioned yesterday that it did not expect substantial revenue or profit from VeriChip anytime soon. But investors were optimistic enough about the F.D.A. news to send the company's shares up 68 percent, to close at $3.57 yesterday. Shares of Digital Angel, a subsidiary of Applied Digital that makes animal tags and manufactures the VeriChip, rose nearly 29 percent, to $3.49.
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What next? I think we should all shave our heads to make sure that 666 hasn't been engraved in our skulls while we were sleeping. I may not have long to wait as each day I loose more and more of my hair......
The Strangest Dream
Some dreams are so vivid that they feel real. I had one of those last night and to be honest, it was so good a dream that I wanted it to go on forever......
I was driving through a snowstorm in a city that seemed slightly familiar. The snow was coming down pretty hard and I could see people outside shoveling their walks. I remember seeing an old friend out on the city sidewalks as I was driving down the road, trying to control the traction of my truck on the slippery roads. I didn't stop though to talk to him, as I knew I had to get to this little restaurant at the edge of town, for some reason that at that point, I couldn't remember.
I got to the restaurant and that is when I remembered why I was there. It was to see my mother! Yes, my mom, who died like 5 years ago! (I know....Weird....Why would I be going to some restaurant to visit my mother who wasn't even alive-but in the dream she wasnt dead.....She was a waitress at this little restaurant in this little snowcovered town somewhere).
I walked in to the restaurant and I remember two distinct sections. One was smoking with a bunch of booths running across a wall and to the front of the entrance, was another section that I could not see, along with a stairway leading to what looked like a basement banquet area. The lady that I saw when I first entered the restaurant said to me "Take a seat anywhere hun, someone will be right with you". I stood there contemplating what to do. Which area was my mom working in?? I was so excited to hopefully get to see her after so long. I think I was even crying....And of course I was also very confused. Here, I thought she had been dead for the last 5 years.
The dream starts to fade a little from here, but I do remember that I peaked around the corner of the one section and I heard my mom's voice in that part of the restaurant. I peaked down the stairs to the basement and saw all of these old ladies who looked what like I imagined some of my great aunts on my mom's side of the family looked like. Classy old ladies with fur coats and high heels and big bouffant hairdos, all milling around the bottom of the stairway.
So I decided of course to sit in that section. As I went to sit down, the lady who I had talked to earlier said to me "Hun....The waitress in that section is very busy today and probably wont be able to take care of you....." But I told her that is ok and that "I can wait forever....And that I REALLY wanted the waitress who was in that section!!". She told me to go ahead and sit down.
So....I am sitting down, unraveling my silverware and just sitting there fidgeting, watching this woman jump from one table to the next with the agility and grace of the best server I have ever seen. Jumbling coffee pots and water glasses in both of her hands and running from one end of that room to the other.
When all of a sudden....She sees me! She drops the coffee pot that she is holding on the floor!
She just stands there and stares at me!
I start to cry.....
She walks over to my table....
She says....."Why didn't you tell me you were coming?? I am so busy right now honey, I have 6 tables and two are "wet" and four are still "dry" and I need to get some food out.Just sit there and I will be back in minute ok???"
And then I woke up.........
(Was I in some restaurant in heaven or something? I don't know for sure, but it sure seemed like a real experience. Everything was so vivid. Maybe heaven is just another plain of existence where people still work and when they get hungry, they go out to eat. And it snows!! And my mom's relatives of course would be in the restaurant that she works in).
God, what a weird dream. I really miss her.
Time to get ready for work.
And yes, I am blubbering like a total idiot right now. I cant help it.
What is wrong with me???
I was driving through a snowstorm in a city that seemed slightly familiar. The snow was coming down pretty hard and I could see people outside shoveling their walks. I remember seeing an old friend out on the city sidewalks as I was driving down the road, trying to control the traction of my truck on the slippery roads. I didn't stop though to talk to him, as I knew I had to get to this little restaurant at the edge of town, for some reason that at that point, I couldn't remember.
I got to the restaurant and that is when I remembered why I was there. It was to see my mother! Yes, my mom, who died like 5 years ago! (I know....Weird....Why would I be going to some restaurant to visit my mother who wasn't even alive-but in the dream she wasnt dead.....She was a waitress at this little restaurant in this little snowcovered town somewhere).
I walked in to the restaurant and I remember two distinct sections. One was smoking with a bunch of booths running across a wall and to the front of the entrance, was another section that I could not see, along with a stairway leading to what looked like a basement banquet area. The lady that I saw when I first entered the restaurant said to me "Take a seat anywhere hun, someone will be right with you". I stood there contemplating what to do. Which area was my mom working in?? I was so excited to hopefully get to see her after so long. I think I was even crying....And of course I was also very confused. Here, I thought she had been dead for the last 5 years.
The dream starts to fade a little from here, but I do remember that I peaked around the corner of the one section and I heard my mom's voice in that part of the restaurant. I peaked down the stairs to the basement and saw all of these old ladies who looked what like I imagined some of my great aunts on my mom's side of the family looked like. Classy old ladies with fur coats and high heels and big bouffant hairdos, all milling around the bottom of the stairway.
So I decided of course to sit in that section. As I went to sit down, the lady who I had talked to earlier said to me "Hun....The waitress in that section is very busy today and probably wont be able to take care of you....." But I told her that is ok and that "I can wait forever....And that I REALLY wanted the waitress who was in that section!!". She told me to go ahead and sit down.
So....I am sitting down, unraveling my silverware and just sitting there fidgeting, watching this woman jump from one table to the next with the agility and grace of the best server I have ever seen. Jumbling coffee pots and water glasses in both of her hands and running from one end of that room to the other.
When all of a sudden....She sees me! She drops the coffee pot that she is holding on the floor!
She just stands there and stares at me!
I start to cry.....
She walks over to my table....
She says....."Why didn't you tell me you were coming?? I am so busy right now honey, I have 6 tables and two are "wet" and four are still "dry" and I need to get some food out.Just sit there and I will be back in minute ok???"
And then I woke up.........
(Was I in some restaurant in heaven or something? I don't know for sure, but it sure seemed like a real experience. Everything was so vivid. Maybe heaven is just another plain of existence where people still work and when they get hungry, they go out to eat. And it snows!! And my mom's relatives of course would be in the restaurant that she works in).
God, what a weird dream. I really miss her.
Time to get ready for work.
And yes, I am blubbering like a total idiot right now. I cant help it.
What is wrong with me???
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Hang this Guy by his Testicles Please!
ARRRRG..........
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From the Milwaukee Journal Online Edition
10-10-2004
Man accused of beating cat into coma
Janesville - A man was arrested on allegations of beating a cat into a coma.
Janesville police said the 36-year-old man was arrested Saturday at the Rock County Jail, where he was being held for unrelated probation violations.
Veterinary hospital staff called police after the man's live-in girlfriend brought her sick cat there with broken ribs, a broken jaw, broken teeth and bruised internal organs. It was also comatose, according to police reports.
The woman told officers she had noticed the week before that the cat had stopped eating, stopped making noises and did not like to be picked up. After a few days, the cat's tongue was hanging out, police reports said.
The woman said she questioned her boyfriend, but he denied hurting the cat.
Veterinary staff said the cat has a good chance of survival.
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Thank god that little creature stands a chance at recovering. I hope they lock his ass up for at least a year.....if not more. Cruelty to animals is worse than to humans. The animals cant defend themselves and do not understand in the least what is probably happening to them.
I gotta go hug my little girl and smother her with kisses now....
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From the Milwaukee Journal Online Edition
10-10-2004
Man accused of beating cat into coma
Janesville - A man was arrested on allegations of beating a cat into a coma.
Janesville police said the 36-year-old man was arrested Saturday at the Rock County Jail, where he was being held for unrelated probation violations.
Veterinary hospital staff called police after the man's live-in girlfriend brought her sick cat there with broken ribs, a broken jaw, broken teeth and bruised internal organs. It was also comatose, according to police reports.
The woman told officers she had noticed the week before that the cat had stopped eating, stopped making noises and did not like to be picked up. After a few days, the cat's tongue was hanging out, police reports said.
The woman said she questioned her boyfriend, but he denied hurting the cat.
Veterinary staff said the cat has a good chance of survival.
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Thank god that little creature stands a chance at recovering. I hope they lock his ass up for at least a year.....if not more. Cruelty to animals is worse than to humans. The animals cant defend themselves and do not understand in the least what is probably happening to them.
I gotta go hug my little girl and smother her with kisses now....
Scrappy Duex??
If there ever happened a time that my beloved little girl would unexpectadly die....I would consider this as an option for myself.
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Cloning a Bad Idea??
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
There are always plenty of strange sights at a major cat show: strange cats, strange owners, strange spectators. But the strangest sights at this weekend's cat show at Madison Square Garden will look perfectly ordinary. They are a pair of cloned Bengal kittens, called Tabouli and Baba Ganoush.
They also happen to be corporate cats, the property of Genetic Savings & Clone, a California company that is working with the Cat Fanciers' Association, the host of the cat show, to set up a feline gene bank. Tabouli and Baba Ganoush are, in fact, purring advertisements for cat cloning - a procedure that costs some $50,000 per cat at the moment.
Adorable as these kittens may be, they are also a truly terrible idea, one that the Cat Fanciers' Association should, by rights, have opposed. The very variety of cats on display at Madison Square Garden this weekend has been created by breeders over time out of genetic diversity itself. Even the most successful genetic crossings - pairings designed to produce a preferred characteristic - occur within the natural matrix of genetic chance. In a sense, cloning represents the end of the breeding line, the end of diversity. Well-heeled cat lovers can now pretend to have the same cat over and over again.
The Cat Fanciers' Association invited these kittens to Madison Square Garden partly to prove "that we were not so stuffy and fuddy-duddy - that we were aware of what technology has presented the animal world."
Cloned kittens may sound like a technological marvel, but you could hardly ask for a better example of the overweening sentimentality that some pet owners lavish upon their pets. The idea of cloning a kitten may somehow seem to be about the cat, but it's really only about the owner. VERLYN KLINKENBORG
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So what if its only about the owner? If that is what makes the owner happy, ist that ok?
I watched a movie recently called "Godsend" about a couple who looses there 8 year old son to a tragic accident and then are approached by a Genetic Doctor and are offered the ability to "get back their son via cloning his DNA-thus having an exact duplicate of their deceased boy".
I am only a parent to a pet, but I guarentee you that if I ever had a child and I lost it, and there was the possibility of "copying" an exact duplicate...I would.
Time for bed.
Warm regards to all.
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Cloning a Bad Idea??
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
There are always plenty of strange sights at a major cat show: strange cats, strange owners, strange spectators. But the strangest sights at this weekend's cat show at Madison Square Garden will look perfectly ordinary. They are a pair of cloned Bengal kittens, called Tabouli and Baba Ganoush.
They also happen to be corporate cats, the property of Genetic Savings & Clone, a California company that is working with the Cat Fanciers' Association, the host of the cat show, to set up a feline gene bank. Tabouli and Baba Ganoush are, in fact, purring advertisements for cat cloning - a procedure that costs some $50,000 per cat at the moment.
Adorable as these kittens may be, they are also a truly terrible idea, one that the Cat Fanciers' Association should, by rights, have opposed. The very variety of cats on display at Madison Square Garden this weekend has been created by breeders over time out of genetic diversity itself. Even the most successful genetic crossings - pairings designed to produce a preferred characteristic - occur within the natural matrix of genetic chance. In a sense, cloning represents the end of the breeding line, the end of diversity. Well-heeled cat lovers can now pretend to have the same cat over and over again.
The Cat Fanciers' Association invited these kittens to Madison Square Garden partly to prove "that we were not so stuffy and fuddy-duddy - that we were aware of what technology has presented the animal world."
Cloned kittens may sound like a technological marvel, but you could hardly ask for a better example of the overweening sentimentality that some pet owners lavish upon their pets. The idea of cloning a kitten may somehow seem to be about the cat, but it's really only about the owner. VERLYN KLINKENBORG
_______________________________________________
So what if its only about the owner? If that is what makes the owner happy, ist that ok?
I watched a movie recently called "Godsend" about a couple who looses there 8 year old son to a tragic accident and then are approached by a Genetic Doctor and are offered the ability to "get back their son via cloning his DNA-thus having an exact duplicate of their deceased boy".
I am only a parent to a pet, but I guarentee you that if I ever had a child and I lost it, and there was the possibility of "copying" an exact duplicate...I would.
Time for bed.
Warm regards to all.
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