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9:18 AM
elenchos commented on Pit Bulls!.
elenchos commented on Pit Bulls!.
Just a reminder: last year a 71 year old woman was mauled by two pit bulls in Sea Tac.
The dogs had run at large in the neighborhood several times, and the neighbors had reported them. Repeatedly. Current law should have taken these dogs and punished the owner. The police and animal control did nothing. Perhaps due to understaffing or mismanagement or I don't know what. King County Animal Control has been a disaster for years now, as is well known.
And that is why passing a breed ban, already demonstrated to be ineffective by the CDC and AVMA, is particularly a bad idea here. It is a harmful substitute for addressing the real problem.
The dogs had run at large in the neighborhood several times, and the neighbors had reported them. Repeatedly. Current law should have taken these dogs and punished the owner. The police and animal control did nothing. Perhaps due to understaffing or mismanagement or I don't know what. King County Animal Control has been a disaster for years now, as is well known.
And that is why passing a breed ban, already demonstrated to be ineffective by the CDC and AVMA, is particularly a bad idea here. It is a harmful substitute for addressing the real problem.
3:51 PM yesterday
elenchos commented on Pit Bulls!.
elenchos commented on Pit Bulls!.
@25
Almost 70 at the moment. Also block all the unregistered comments. Sometimes in a thread with 10 comments I only see one. This pitbulll thread is relatively civil, I guess-- 20 out of 32 are showing up.
A feature that blocks the name of those who reply to those you're blocking would be nice. The first pass of the script did block any mention of their name, not just in the "Posted by" field...
Almost 70 at the moment. Also block all the unregistered comments. Sometimes in a thread with 10 comments I only see one. This pitbulll thread is relatively civil, I guess-- 20 out of 32 are showing up.
A feature that blocks the name of those who reply to those you're blocking would be nice. The first pass of the script did block any mention of their name, not just in the "Posted by" field...
2:00 PM yesterday
elenchos commented on Pit Bulls!.
elenchos commented on Pit Bulls!.
The Magic Lemur, in a second I will click the hide button that will make it so I never again have to read one of your comments. It makes a *plonk* sound.
The reason Savage is wrong about breed bans is that research by the CDC and American Veterinary Medical Association has shown that breed bans are unenforceable and ineffective. The hypocrisy is to argue for a reality-based apporach on drugs or porn or sex or teh gays, but to demonstrate the reasoning ability of Sarah Palin when it comes to dogs.
Bye, fuckwit. *plonk*
The reason Savage is wrong about breed bans is that research by the CDC and American Veterinary Medical Association has shown that breed bans are unenforceable and ineffective. The hypocrisy is to argue for a reality-based apporach on drugs or porn or sex or teh gays, but to demonstrate the reasoning ability of Sarah Palin when it comes to dogs.
Bye, fuckwit. *plonk*
1:51 PM yesterday
elenchos commented on SWAT in Ballard.
elenchos commented on SWAT in Ballard.
Car thefts are down 15% from last year. Which was tough to do because they were down 55% in 2008 from 2007. It's so hard to look this up!
But yeah, let's pull total bullshit out of our ass about Russian maifa chop shops and how the recession is to blame. Because being an asshole means never having to know what the fuck you're talking about.
But yeah, let's pull total bullshit out of our ass about Russian maifa chop shops and how the recession is to blame. Because being an asshole means never having to know what the fuck you're talking about.
1:35 PM yesterday
elenchos commented on Lunchtime Quickie: A Stuffed Animal Dog Show!.
elenchos commented on Lunchtime Quickie: A Stuffed Animal Dog Show!.
I hate those sliding closet doors. Nothing says cheap, crap, shithole dwelling like sliding closet doors. They're an affront to human dignity.
1:26 PM yesterday
elenchos commented on The Alaskan Stereotype.
elenchos commented on The Alaskan Stereotype.
Up until your last post on this I was thinking that you had been sentenced to be a doctor in Alaska for 7 years or something, like in Northern Exposure. Just because you made it seem like you were being banished and would not be heard from again, or if you were you'd come back totally changed, wearing a bear skin and speaking in grunts. But six weeks... well, yeah, six weeks is pretty harsh. Hang in there.
1:21 PM yesterday
elenchos commented on Pit Bulls!.
elenchos commented on Pit Bulls!.
You want to legalize a plant, but ban a dog. You want bars to be allowed to show porn if that's what the customers want, but you want the cops to evict dogs even if the customers want dogs. You want me to trust science when it says being gay isn't a choice or same sex couples make good parents, but you want me to ignore science when it says breed bans don't work. The drug war is stupid because it can't be won and it wastes resources, but a new law against pit bulls that we can't enforce is smart. Liberty to do what you like but the nanny state to run the lives of anyone whose tastes differ.
Probably missing a few, but I think we all get the idea.
Probably missing a few, but I think we all get the idea.
10:54 AM yesterday
elenchos commented on Christopher Monfort's Time As A Truck Driver.
elenchos commented on Christopher Monfort's Time As A Truck Driver.
It would be stranger if the cargo were something not normally transported by truck, like love. Or the moon. Or if the time and temperature sensitive delicacies headed to a jet flying to the far east were cinder blocks, or scrap steel. That would be odd indeed.
Cherries basically makes sense.
Cherries basically makes sense.
Nov 19
elenchos commented on Microsoft Shareholder Proposal No. 2. (Or, Why Ken Hutcherson Believes "Hatred Speech" Is Hurting the Company's Stock Price.).
elenchos commented on Microsoft Shareholder Proposal No. 2. (Or, Why Ken Hutcherson Believes "Hatred Speech" Is Hurting the Company's Stock Price.).
Dang. Free booze at the MS shareholder meetings? I did not know that.
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Shouldn't you be over at YouTube reading every single idiotic comment? I'm sure if you read one or two million of them you're bound to find one or two interesting points. If you're man enough.