World Ends Wednesday

Geez.  If we get swallowed by a black hole Wednesday, maybe we should all consider how insignificant things like political campaigns really are, and maybe keep the rest of the '08 election season a little less vicious than the primary election campaigns.

Thanks for the rather pleasant perspective, JD. 

Michael S. Mann

michaelsmann@comcast.net

I'm finally going to be old enough to collect SS and the dang world comes to an end.

I knew the government was going figure out a way of not paying back all my contributions.

I hate it when that happens.

I loved one of the report's views though.

"We are in the hands of some of the best minds in the world and should trust that they know what they are doing."

Right!

Mike Heemer

Instead of looking at the gloom & doom side, we should all be looking at the positive side of this.  If, in fact, it does happen, what a great opportunity for a clean sweep of CCAC.  We can then start anew, make it better & look forward to the absence of yet another blog about how bad it is.  Badda boom.  Badda bing.  An' dats da name of dat tune.  JATFUR.

Rich K

On second reflection, let's not waste any time at all worrying about the nastiest of political campaigning.  And if the world is gonna end Wednesday, let's set all those animals loose so they won't spend their last hours crammed in an overcrowded cage - and we won't spend our last hours blogging about Animal Control.

Let's just kill all of them so they can chase bunnies in heaven. You don't want them loose on the roads in Clay County so they can just be road-kill do you?

OK, that was a cool song but has anyone told the Maya they may be off by 4 years? :>)

Glad I changed my very pricey dental appointment to Thursday.  Guess it wouldn't matter anyway.  If the world ends does that mean Citibank won't be coming after me for a payment?  Or, will the creditors (and Dick Cheney) keep on ticking?

www.CTLAC.com

As humanity's time on earth nears its Wednesday deadline, it's nice to know government has been working hard on really important things.

Like the public-paycheck folks in Illinois, where state officials discarded the passing grades of 65 university professors on a new mandatory ethics test.  While our mortal time is ticking, they were concerned with the fact that the tests were completed too quickly, and now require state employees to take at least 10 minutes completing the test.

See, JD?  If you'd entered politics earlier, you might've been in an official position to make important decisions like that.

OGV,

Part of the Fox news banner said one of the scientists said we would not notice anything for four years.  THEN, a large beam of light would be seen rising from the Indian Ocean.  Apparently that would be to signal the end.

JD 

I ran into that (you took the test too fast) thing twice in my life.  The first time I saw it was at the end of my Junior Year in High School.  It was Exam Time and I had finished all my exams except  American History when I was suddenly hospitalized.  As a result I had to go back to the school and take the exam which had been left at the office for me.  The Principal handed me the exam and sent me across the hall to the library to take it.  I was back a few minutes later all completed.  He swore I had cheated, like gotten all the questions from my friends or something.  He dug around in the archives and after a while found a clean test froma many years ago.  He then proceded to make me take the test in front of him.  This time I was even faster!

Had he checked my reading scores he would have seen that back in grade school I have always tested in reading off any scale they could devise.  SHEESH!

It happened again as anaadult.  I took a test to decend into management.  Again I finished way too fast.  It was one of those tests they give in sections and there is not supposed to be enough time to finish the test.  This time SECURITY got involved.

If you saw me deliver a written speach during the campaign you would think I can't read.  I hate reading speaches...they sound to unnatural to me.

I sure am going to miss being able to make  momentous decisions like that

<> JD 

How about meteor showers, the mother ship, Y2K, the turn of the mellinium?  Lest we forget the big boogeyman, THE END OF TIMES!!! (Cue scary music here)  Let's face it, they were all a bust.  I just hope that them, those, the ones that we don't dare speak of, have the good graces & common courtesy, to wait until the CUBS win the World Series in the bottom of the ninth, at Wrigley Field in CHICAGO, my kind of town.

If, & only after that happens, "Quite frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."  JATFUR.

Rich K

Rich would that not the final precipitating event to the EOW

JD 

This certainly puts a disappointing perspective on stamp collecting. What do I do with all these things now? :>)

Lily's Lore "I don't ever want to be rescued And I don't ever want to be saved I got a feelin' that I'm gonna be alive forever Dancin' on the edge of a grave..." Jim Steinman

JD, You might just be irght.  I could see that happening.  But on the other hand, as I said, "QFMDIDGAD."  Reference margaret Mitchell, Clark Gable, Rhett Butler. Cry havoc & let slip the dogs of war.  JATFUR.

Rich K

Lily,

I still have sweat socks to inventory.  Underwear to stock.  OMG.  I haven't even prepared to count the ants in my back yard, let alone the nubbies in my living room rug.  Whatever shall I do?  Auntie Em!  Auntie Em.

Rich K

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 Lily,

Let’s have a field trip via the mental experiment route.  Just suppose the world ended.  We now have a binary question/situation.  Will life start again or won’t it?  Let’s say it does.  After all, Jeff Goldblum, in “Jurassic Park,” said that “Nature finds a way.”  Indeed it does.  So what would we face?

It’s not out of the question that given the same physical parameters, the same kinds of life would appear in much the same manner.  Of course some things would be different.  Our national debt would be erased.  So would animal control issues & those that blog about them, beer & potato chips would have to be reinvented as would the perfect martini & the CHICAGO CUBS.  (Hopefully better than the last version or current version, depending on your perspective.) 

But in the mean time, we would not have to endure fleas, tickly nose hairs, products for natural male enhancement commercials,  inclement weather, lice, slimy rodents, uncontrollable bladder products, toe fungus, ear wax, noisy, smelly bodily flatulence, prostate exams, mammary exams, pap smears, drivers doing everything but actually driving, cell phones, commercials, blogs about animal control, Pee Wee Herman, Pauly Shore, celebrities in general, BS celebrity news updates, Rocky XXXVIII, reality shows, shows about ice road truckers, crab fishing in the north Pacific, infomercials, political signs on the roadsides, bugs that bug us, war, disease, famine, pestilence, televangelists, Republicans or fundamentalists of any stripe. Please notice that I did not include Smuncey.  Far be it for me to cast a disparaging word about a person who provides me with so much comedic material.

On the other hand, if things go according to how they went before, we will probably still be afflicted with the same scourges as before including those that would claim that it didn’t happen that way, there is no such thing as evolution & then present us with their version, sans proof or common sense.

 Now will this dispense with the closed system theory or actually reinforce the theory of repetitive theory of natural forces?  I don’t know.  Do you?  It’s really a toss up.  All I can say is “What’s next?” JATFUR.

Rich K

Did you happen to pass me this morning while I was putting up my political signs on the highways and byways?  

Mike Heemer

Mike,

Why would I have a reason to dis vous.  Not moi.  We are usually of the same frame of mind.  Besides, unless you were on Taylor, Madison, Harrison or Cleveland, there was no way.

On the other hand, if you need a good bad boy, I would think of joining up.  We could play good cop, bad cop with the voters.  What an idea. 

Rich K

Angela, let me ask you this...Have you ever been hit by a car?  Have you ever picked up a dog on the side of the road with it's head dented, or its hips smashed to smithereens, or its spine snapped in half?  Have you ever looked into the eyes of a dying dog or cat that has just been hit by a vehicle?    

Your post sickens me (I'll leave it at that)...That may be your opinion, and you do have the right to announce it.

Click on the sites provided below...FOR EVERY HUMAN THERE ARE AT LEAST SEVEN ANIMALS.  No one at CCAC enjoys killing pets...BUT THE REALITY IS THAT THERE ARE TOO MANY UNWANTED PETS AND NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE. 

Look at the numbers, public records expert that you are, not only have the numbers of animals impounded and euthanized risen as the population grows, but the numbers of adoptions have increased significantly.

Unfortunately your attitude is the same attitude that I see everyday by citizens who refuse to admit that they are at fault. 

Please go to:

http://spayusa.org/media/pdfs/Cats_Multiply_Pyramid.pdf

http://spayusa.org/media/pdfs/Dogs_Multiply_Pyramid.pdf

Hello can you read. Maybe you should scroll back up there and see what was said.

Mike Mann suggested we turn all the animals loose if it was the end of the world. Of course I’m certain he was just kidding.

I said no we should kill them. We don’t want them to be road-kill which is usually what happens when they run loose in a community.

I guess you support the comment of Mike Mann to just let them loose to run the streets. But then have a problem with my comment.

We have an unwanted pet problem/population in this county, state, and country. The PETA whacko’s are the biggest threat to the US that I’ve come across in my time. They sound just like some of those from animal control that caused an abuse button on the blogs to begin with.

Even by your own admission we have 7 pets per person. Well some of us don’t want any pets and most can’t take care of 7 per person. With an average family of 4 that would be 28 per household. And for every person who don’t want a pet that make another person have to take 14 pets per person. You can work out the odds of those numbers by yourself. But in my opinion you are already at loss and we will keep killing thousand per year.

If you take Clay County’s number of 9000. Then Jacksonville’s of number of 20,000 and then Palm Beach County’s number of 17,000. The State of Florida has just killed 46,000 animals in one year, and we have 64 counties left to count. Makes you wonder what the total number for the State of Florida is for just one year.

With your numbers we don’t have a number of cages problems in Clay County or this State. Because evidently we can’t build enough cages. We have an unwanted pet problem. How do you fix that problem? I don’t think you build more cages and try to adopt all those animals. I think you pass an ordinance to stop the unwanted pet population and that would solve the problems. First you have to understand in Florida animals are property. We need to require pet owners to get license to operate puppy mills, which is a business. Require all pets be altered. Or require very high cost of license for those who decide not to have their animals altered. Then limit the amount of breeding that is allowed.

Because with the numbers you cite this will never be fixed. I don’t care how big the population gets.

If animals are man’s best friend. Then we should act like it and pass an ordinance that protects man’s best friend.

I'm attemping to find a real solution to the problem. Every one who reads the blogs should contact your commissioner and asked them to pass the ordinance like Palm Beach County and stop the useless killing of thousands of animals. Then turn it over to public safety and enforce the ordinance.

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has determined that the unintended

 or uncontrolled breeding of dogs and cats within the county leads to many dogs, cats, puppies,

 and kittens being unwanted, becoming strays, suffering privation and death, being impounded

 and euthanized at great expense to the community, and constituting a public nuisance and

 public health hazard;

http://www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/publicsafety/animalcare/pdf/Final_Spay_Neuter_Ord.pdf

My apology to you.  I did not read OneMann's post completely.

The numbers are, in reality, scary.  A while back I heard that as a whole Florida only adopts out approximately 80% of County Agency animals.  This average has been the "norm" for the past 20 years or so.

I would welcome an Ordinance similar or like to Palm Beach County.  It certainly is a great reference or starting point. 

But I doubt this will come easily. 

Please go to:

http://spayusa.org/media/pdfs/Cats_Multiply_Pyramid.pdf

http://spayusa.org/media/pdfs/Dogs_Multiply_Pyramid.pdf

People need to understand we are killing massive amounts of animals in this State yearly. If they care anything about animals they should contact their Commissioner and asked them to pass an ordinance like Palm Beach County. They should do something before it gets to a crisis situation. I don't know how anyone could say they care for animals and let this happen.