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The successes in San
Francisco and Tompkins
County (NY) prove that there
is a blueprint for No Kill, and
that the implementation of
certain programs and services
are crucial to lowering the
death rate.

These key programs include:
1. Comprehensive adoption programs that
operate during weekend and evening hours
and include offsite adoption venues
2. Rescue group access to shelter animals
3.Volunteer programs to socialize animals,
promote adoptions, and help in the operations
of the shelter
4.TNR programs
5.A foster care network for underaged,
traumatized, sick, injured, or other animals
needing refuge
6. Medical and behavioral rehabilitation
programs
7. High volume, low-cost public spay/neuter and
spay/neuter of animals
before adoption
8. Pet retention programs to
solve medical,
environmental, or
behavioral problems and
keep animals with their
caring and responsible
caregivers
9.A clean shelter, where
animals are provided
prompt veterinary care,
adequate nutrition, shelter,
exercise, and socialization

They also mplemented a Catch and Release program for spaying and neutering of ferril cats.

For more information
http://www.nokilladvocacyce...

 *Note to all the NAY SAYERS..this is not a MANDATORY SPAY AND NEUTER ..This is is a program that is working in other places developed by Nathan J. Winograd http://www.nathanwinograd.c... He is the Director of the national No Kill Advocacy Center. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, a former criminal prosecutor and attorney, was director of operations for the San Francisco SPCA and executive director of the Tompkins County SPCA, two of the most successful shelters in the nation. He has spoken nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, has written animal protection legislation at the state and national level, has created successful No Kill programs in both urban and rural communities, and has consulted with a wide range of animal protection groups including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

Posted in the Animals interest group.
Topics: animals euthanization shelter
posted by siouxcityranch on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 08:11 AM
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Please send this to everyone you know  TODAY  as it will be pulled off the air soon. Here Obama reveals his true intentions to make the US a third rate nation - vulnerable to attack by every rogue nation on the earth.
This is an uninterrupted 51-second video of Obama speaking; he's telling us exactly what he will do to the military...watch it before this too is removed off the web site.

Pass it on...the USA needs a Wake-up call.

http://www.macsmind.com/wor...

This is absolutely shocking & reprehensible. He plans to unilaterally disarm our nation.The question is... for what? And more specifically, for whom ?!!!!!!!!

Posted in the Politics interest group.
Topics: Obama disarm America presidential race
posted by siouxcityranch on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 06:43 AM
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May 5, 2008
Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much.
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.
 143 days -- I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that.
In contrast, John McCain's 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever. At 71, John McCain may just be hitting his stride.
 

http://www.gopusa.com/thelo...
 

Posted in the Politics interest group.
Topics: Obama Politics presidential race
posted by siouxcityranch on Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 02:23 PM
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We, therefore, the undersigned citizens of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to act immediately to lower gasoline prices (and diesel and other fuel prices)* by authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries.
 
As gas prices continue to increase, Congress continues to blame others while ignoring practical steps to stop the pain Americans are feeling at the pump. To lower gasoline prices and reduce our dependence on foreign oil, we need real solutions to our energy challenges.
 
Sign the Petition: DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW
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Topics: high gas prices drill for oil
posted by siouxcityranch on Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 09:42 AM
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A man whose family was of Jewish German aristocracy prior to World War Two owned a number of factories.  When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward Islamic fanaticism...

'Very few people were true Nazis 'he said,' but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of  those who
just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything.  I ended up in a
concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to
live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.  It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better,
and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who are waging over 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over that entire continent in an Islamic wave, fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals.

The hard quantifiable fact is that the 'peaceful majority', the 'silent majority', is cowed and extraneous.

China's huge population, was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War 2 was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia
in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians;  most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet.

And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peaceful & loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awake one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun. Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis,
Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful silent majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.  

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Topics: muslims fanatics war
posted by siouxcityranch on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 06:58 AM
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Please read this and pass the info along to your family members; it could save their lives someday!

EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE: 'TRIANGLE OF LIFE'

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the
American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced
rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an
Earthquake.

I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries.

I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I have worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under its desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the time know that the children were told to hide under something.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This space is what I call the 'triangle of life'. The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the 'triangles' you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.

TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY

1) Most everyone who simply 'ducks and covers' WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE
are crushed to death. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.

2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You should too in an earthquake.. It is a natural safety/survival
instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.

3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake.  If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created.
Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick
buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but
less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.

4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a
sign on The back of the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.

5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, or large chair.

6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways
you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!

7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different 'moment of frequency (they swing separately from the main part of the building).
The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads -- horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not damaged.


8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible
It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.

9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls
in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened
with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway... The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.

10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.

Spread the word and save someone's life... The Entire world is experiencing natural calamities so be prepared!

'We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly'

In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology to be correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul, University of Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did 'duck and cover,' and ten mannequins I used in my 'triangle of life' survival method. After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building
collapse, showed there would have been zero percent survival for those doing duck and cover.

There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people using my method of the 'triangle of life.' This film has been seen by millions of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe, and it was seen in the USA, Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV
 
 
Posted in the Family & Home interest group.
Topics: earthquake saftey
posted by siouxcityranch on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 09:13 AM
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Try it out and find out just how much you remember from your good ole school days.
 
Posted in the Politics interest group.
Topics: government test basic knowledge
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In light of the recent appeals court ruling in California, with respect to the Pledge of Allegiance, the following recollection from Senator John McCain is very appropriate:
 
'The Pledge of Allegiance' - by Senator John McCain
'As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a room.
 
This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home.

 
One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian.
Mike came from a small town near Selma , Alabama . He didn't wear a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training School Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the opportunities this country and our military provide for people who want to work and want to succeed.

 
As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing.

 
Mike got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed on the inside of his shirt.
 
Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike's shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance.
 
I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed the most important and meaningful event.

 
One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it.
 
That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours. Then, they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could.
 
The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.
 
As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag. He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to Pledge our allegiance to our flag and country.
 
So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world. You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country.'

Posted in the Politics interest group.
Topics: presidential race republican John McCain
posted by siouxcityranch on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 08:03 PM
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Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see....


        & nbsp; As most of you know I am not a President Bush fan, nor have I  ever been, but this is not about Bush, it is about us, as Americans, and  it seems to hit the mark


    'The  other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some Poll data I found rather hard to believe.  It must be true given the  source, right?


      The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with  the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is  unhappy with the performance of the President.  In essence 2/3 of the citizenry just ain't happy and  want a change. So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, 'What are we so unhappy about?''

A.. Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours  a day,  7 Days a week?
B.. Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning  in the summer and heating in the winter?

C.. Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have  a job?

D.. Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time  and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in  the last year?

E.. Maybe it is the ability to drive our cars and trucks from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean  without having to present identification papers as we move  through each state?

F.. Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter?

G.. I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying  cuisine from  around the world is just not good enough either.

H. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you  to the hospital.

I.. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who  own a home.

J.. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments  and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames, thus saving you,  your family, and your belongings.

K.. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped  with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.

L.. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents.  Neighborhoods where  90% of teenagers own cell phones and computers.

M.. How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world?

Maybe that is what has 67% of you folks unhappy.

Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen.  No wonder the world loves the U.S.  , yet has a great disdain for its citizens.  They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing  but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about  the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.

I know, I know. What about the president who took us into  war and has no plan to get us out?   The president who has a measly  31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the  nation in the dark days after 9/11?   The president that cut taxes  to bring an economy out of recession?   Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all  the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks?  The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out  there defending you and me?

Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the  good things and be glad?   Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is  it because the 'Media' told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day.  Make no mistake about it.

The troops in Iraq  and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your  freedom.  There is currently no draft in this country.  They  didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an 'other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable'' discha rge after a  few days in the brig.

So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of  69 percent of Americans?

Say what you want but I blame it on the media.   If it  bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news.  Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts.  How many will watch kids selling  lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are  for-profit corporations.  They offer what sells, and when  criticized, try to defend their  actions by 'justifying' them in  one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like  O.J. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if  he did he would have done it this way......Insane!

 
Turn off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage.   Then start being grateful for all we have as country. There is  exponentially more good than bad.  We are among the most blessed  people on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be  thankful and appreciative.'  'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out  of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the  country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and  terrorist attacks, 'Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of  the Pledge of Allegiance?'


        & nbsp;      Jay Leno

 

 

 

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Topics: spoiled americans our soldiers bush politics
posted by siouxcityranch on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 08:33 AM
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A week ago in an online feature, Newsweek explored the bizarre irony -- or hypocrisy, if you see things the way we do -- of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as a wholesale executioner of dogs, cats, and other “companion animals.” The story was originally titled “PETA Kills Pets,” but later quietly re-titled to a milder “PETA and Euthanasia.”
 
Last year, PETA’s “Animal Record” report for 2006 (containing its official “! kill” nu mbers) didn’t show up on the website of Virginia’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services(VDACS) until nine months after it was supposed to. So this year, we pressed the issue.
 
And in response to our written public-records request, VDACS delivered the goods. PETA’s 2007 “Animal Record” still isn’t available online through the Virginia government, but we’re making it available today at PetaKillsAnimals.com.
 
Here’s what the report shows. Not including the animals PETA spayed and neutered, the group had possession of 1,997 dogs, cats, and other “companion animals” in 2007. And PETA -- which professes a belief that animals should never be slaughtered for food, used for medical research, or killed for clothing, nonetheless put 90.9 percent of them to death at its Norfolk, VAheadquarters. And despite its official status as a “humane society” and a pet “releasing agency” in Virginia, PETA found adoptive homes for only 17 animals all year. Just 17.
 
No-kill animal sheltering crusader Nathan Winograd told Newsweek something worth remembering the next time you receive a solicitation letter from PETA, or from its ideological brother, the misnamed Humane Society of the United States: “With the resources at their disposal, PETA and the Humane Society of the U.S. could become no-kill in no time. Insteadthey have become leading killers of cats and dogs, and the animal-loving public unwittingly foots the bill through taxes and donations.

 

 
 
     

Posted in the Animals interest group.
Topics: dog kill cats shelter
posted by siouxcityranch on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 07:27 PM
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