The locking jaws are just a myth
Posted By: MT in Ohio on 2008-06-13
In Reply to: Pits - my experience
Do some research. This is something I did find out. No dog has the bony or muscular structure in their anatomy to have a locking jaw.
Also the huge muscular looking pits are hybrid. A good show quality pit does not have the huge blocky head, short legs and overly exaggerated muscular. I actually think they are a beautiful breed. Especially the reds.
I just read some reports of a couple of kids killed by huskies in the last year. My SIL's huskies completely tore apart a cat that wondered into their yard. Fox terriers are hugely prey-driven dogs. They can and will hunt down and kill small animals, just for the kill. Are we going to ban those breeds?
There are some pictures of my vicious killer here:
LINK/URL: Vicious pit bull photos
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Locking doors
I'm the same way. I always keep my doors locked, no matter what. My hubby thinks that since we live in a rural area, we really don't need to, and he thinks I'm paranoid, but I do it just the same. We had lived in our home for about 6 months when a man came up to my front door and tried to open it. I had just gotten out of the shower and was running around in a towel. He was looking for a home that was for sale, which was down the road. I was so glad I had the habit of locking my doors!
How about locking the door? Better yet...
ask them to call you first. If you can't ask them, have your husband ask them. It's YOUR home, isn't it?
Locking my doors from now on.....
I had a very scary experience this morning and wanted to pass on my experience so everyone out there can protect themselves a little better too.
I live in a very rural area that is largely a farming community. We don't have town police, only county and they have to cover a very large county so if we need them in a hurry, it could take a little while. It took 27 minutes for them to respond to my 911 call this morning.
My husband left town this morning on business so it was just me and the kids home alone. I never lock my doors and when I am working, my back is to the front door.
About 40 minutes after my husband left, I was working along, listening to music softly while the kids were still sleeping. I never heard a car, car door, nothing.
The next thing I know, the dogs are going crazy in my bedroom. I hop up to see what's going on. I just thought someone was walking on the road and they were barking at them.
I walked into the bedroom and there stood a young hispanic male, probably in late teens or early 20s. He had just walked right into my bedroom through the sliding glass door. Evidently, he did not see my two pitbulls sound asleep on the bed.
So there this guy is standing, my dogs have him trapped between them and the door he closed behind him. I ran out to grab the phone and my gun. He then opened the door and split with both dogs tearing off after him.
There was an older model white toyota sitting in the driveway with another hispanic male sitting in the driver's seat. The runner jumped over the retaining wall to the driveway below and the guy in the car then saw the dogs running and he tried to get out of here in a hurry, slamming into a concrete post that our log splitter is chained to. Part of their bumper was laying in the driveway.
Just two weeks ago, someone busted out a plate glass window in a house not too far from here and took a bunch of electronic equipment.
So I'm standing out front, waving my 30-30 in one hand and the phone in the other as they take off up the road, which is a dead end. I went back into the house because by this time the kids were awake and wondering what was going on.
Two deputies showed up 27 minutes later. One goes up the road and the other takes my statement and helps me round up my dogs, which were pretty riled up still. Those dogs were just running circles around the yard.
The first deputy finds the car up the road, calls the second, he goes up, they were walking up one of the old horse trails and found the two kids hiding behind some rocks. Fools.
Both of them are behind bars now and..... I am no longer leaving my doors unlocked EVER. I'm also keeping a few shells at my desk in case I ever need to load my 30/30 in a hurry. I didn't have time to grab any this morning or I probably would have blown a few holes in that car and those kids.
After jaws I never swam out in the ocean again
like I once did, use to swim beyond the breakers and that movie did it for me. I said the only way a shark would get me is he might bite my ankle cause I was not going any further than that.
JAWS: "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat."
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This is not religion, this is MYTH.
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The Purity Myth
How America's Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women is a book by Jessica Valenti, and makes some really valid and interesting points.
They turn women and girls into /moral/good or immoral/bad sisters. There is no room for the idea that young women might want to be sexy or to have sex. It teaches girls that their moral status comes from their sexual (in)activity, whereas boys learn that being moral means making responsible choices.
The obsession with virginity overshadows real issues that effect women such as affordable healthcare, reproductive rights, and sexual trafficking.
Abstinenence commitments do not work, and have resulted in higher STDs among these young people.
The chastity movement also promotes the idea that girls/women cannot be trusted to make decisions about their bodies, and fetishizes virginity.
Also- what is sex? Merely intercourse? Oral sex? Are lesbians then virgins?
One final point- those who "cherish" and save their virginity, are more often than not very disappointed by sexuality.
I highly recommend this book for all who have contact with girls and young women.
Purity Myth...
There are very valid emotional development reasons for a teenaged girl not to have sex.
Teenage girls and teenaged boys are very different at this age. The girls want to be loved, cherished, and taken care of, and the boys would tell a girl anything to convince her to have sex. Love and a healthy relationship just aren't in a teenaged boy's emotional ability. That unbalance can have some devastating consequences to a young girl's self esteem.
Rejection by a boy is hard enough to take at that age, it is a million times harder if the girl has been intimate with the boy. It is especially devastating when the boy then brags to his peers that he has made the conquest.
There are more reasons for remaining a virgin until you are an adult and capable of adult judgement than just the fear of pregnancy or an STD.
I think that the idea of a 15 year old girl having sex with a boy because he has lied to her and made her promises that he has no intention of keeping is much worse than any damage done by advising that girl to wait until she is an adult to have sex.
It is all a myth, and they just want to modernize it and make it more palatable. sm
In short, they want to make money on the film.
Also try reading about comparative religion and myth - sm
I recommend The Power of Myth (book and series of specials on PBS) with Joseph Campbell. Interesting stuff. The search for the meaning of life is world-wide and Christianity is certainly not the only belief system out there, nor organized religion in general for that matter!
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