Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Kanandarqu
Doug wrote- >We swear by Frontline Plus, once a month. >[http://www.1800petmeds.com/pselect.asp?LV=201&PG=Frontline%20Plus] > >The other topical medication, Advantage, doesn't work as well. Although I didn't like the thought of Frontline initially, it has served this household well for >10 years

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 8:53 PM Subject: Re: The dark side of faith > > On 4 Oct 2005, at 1:56 am, Dan Minette wrote: > > > And, the multi-causal nature of these trends are also interes

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Oct 2005, at 1:56 am, Dan Minette wrote: And, the multi-causal nature of these trends are also interesting. For example, the US is, by far, the country that has been the most multi-ethnic and multi-racial of the developed countries. So the higher rate of rape and murder in the USA is

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 7:51 PM Subject: Re: The dark side of faith > > On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Dan Minette wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread Dave Land
On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 7:13 PM Subject: Re: The dark side of faith Perhaps members of dysfunctional societies find solace in religion. Dave

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 7:13 PM Subject: Re: The dark side of faith > Perhaps members of dysfunctional societies find solace in religion. > > Dave "horse, cart", is not the same as "cart, horse"

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Oct 2005, at 1:07 am, Dave Land wrote: On Oct 3, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Most Recluse bite I've seen occured when people rolled over the spider in their sleep or crawled over one when working under their house. The spider bites when trapped. Also, apparently, tr

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread Dave Land
On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:03 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 3 Oct 2005, at 10:31 pm, Dave Land wrote: On Oct 3, 2005, at 1:22 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 3 Oct 2005, at 6:22 pm, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 10/3/05, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The LA Times has picked up on t

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Dave Land
On Oct 3, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Most Recluse bite I've seen occured when people rolled over the spider in their sleep or crawled over one when working under their house. The spider bites when trapped. Also, apparently, true of Black Widows -- they'd rather escape than bit

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Oct 2005, at 10:31 pm, Dave Land wrote: On Oct 3, 2005, at 1:22 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 3 Oct 2005, at 6:22 pm, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 10/3/05, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The LA Times has picked up on the story... http://tinyurl.com/7fxny "The dark si

Fwd: Banning Gay Books

2005-10-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
For those of you concerned about the continuing erosion of freedom in the US on two fronts (the Fed's incursions and others led by grassroots politicking), more evidence that the right-wing loonies are gaining a lot more ground than they deserve. The note (but not the article) originated on an

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Seeberger
Horn, John wrote: >> Behalf Of Robert Seeberger >> >> Ha! Ever seen a wound caused by a Brown Recluse? >> I have, and they are very nasty. >> Don't pay any credence to Snopes if you live in a Brown Recluse >> area, >> they are pretty much full of it on the subject of the Recluse >> spider. >> (An

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Seeberger
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote: > On 10/1/05 8:18 PM, "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If $9/hr isnĀ¹t going to attract skilled labor, isn't the absence of >> a low limit going to keep them away in droves? > > You may have to pay people more than the prevailing wage to get down > there.

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Seeberger
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote: > On 10/1/05 7:54 PM, "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Good enough, you are not completely clueless as I imagined. > > Normally I am just called "just another asshole engineer". I'll > take > completely clueless anytime! :) > >> But you do need to

Re: Gay Penguins....

2005-10-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Oct 2, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Russell Chapman wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: Homosexuality was a word invented by Freud and, as such, did not even exist as a quantifiable concept until the 1900s. There are no gay penguins, and I'm pretty goddamned sure there are no gay humans either. It's just

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: Ha! Ever seen a wound caused by a Brown Recluse? I have, and they are very nasty. Don't pay any credence to Snopes if you live in a Brown Recluse area, they are pretty much full of it on the subject of the Recluse spider. (And I have argued with them on their mailing li

RE: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Horn, John
> Behalf Of Robert Seeberger > > Ha! Ever seen a wound caused by a Brown Recluse? > I have, and they are very nasty. > Don't pay any credence to Snopes if you live in a Brown Recluse area, > they are pretty much full of it on the subject of the Recluse spider. > (And I have argued with them on t

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:15 PM Sunday 10/2/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Dave Land wrote: I was at a dinner party Friday night where one of the guests (a real girly-girl) was bragging on the fact that she had faced her fear and killed an extremely large spider in her living room. I told he

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 1:04 PM Subject: RE: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders > Behalf Of Russell Chapman > > I take an each way bet with spiders (ours aren't as wussy as yours, > overall). I als

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread Dave Land
On Oct 3, 2005, at 1:22 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 3 Oct 2005, at 6:22 pm, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 10/3/05, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The LA Times has picked up on the story... http://tinyurl.com/7fxny "The dark side of faith By ROSA BROOKS IT'S OFFICIAL: Too much

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Oct 2005, at 6:22 pm, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 10/3/05, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The LA Times has picked up on the story... http://tinyurl.com/7fxny "The dark side of faith By ROSA BROOKS IT'S OFFICIAL: Too much religion may be a dangerous thing. . William, w

RE: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Horn, John
> Behalf Of Russell Chapman > > I take an each way bet with spiders (ours aren't as wussy as yours, > overall). I also figure killing them with a shoe is not very > sportsmanlike, but that same dark recess of my brain doesn't want him > around either, so I feed them to my pet dragons... "Aren

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread The Fool
-- From: Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 10/3/05, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The LA Times has picked up on the story... > > http://tinyurl.com/7fxny > > "The dark side of faith > By ROSA BROOKS > IT'S OFFICIAL: Too much religion may be a dangerous thing. . Wi

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 10/3/05, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The LA Times has picked up on the story... > > http://tinyurl.com/7fxny > > "The dark side of faith > By ROSA BROOKS > IT'S OFFICIAL: Too much religion may be a dangerous thing. . William, we get it. Post stories or studies now which

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:15 PM Sunday 10/2/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Dave Land wrote: I was at a dinner party Friday night where one of the guests (a real girly-girl) was bragging on the fact that she had faced her fear and killed an extremely large spider in her living room. I told her that killing something t

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:05 PM Sunday 10/2/2005, Dave Land wrote: On Oct 2, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Damon Agretto wrote: Never understood why some people are afraid of spiders... It's a funny thing. The front of my brain tells me that most of the spiders I encounter are quite harmless. Something much, much further ba

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-03 Thread Gibson Jonathan
Mathew, Given the topics covered I'm going on my merry way knowing you disputed very little of what I put forth. As I find my morning unexpectedly free of responsibility I can turn some attention to this and I'll respond to what you deemed worthy. On Oct 2, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Matthew and Ju

The dark side of faith

2005-10-03 Thread William T Goodall
The LA Times has picked up on the story... http://tinyurl.com/7fxny "The dark side of faith By ROSA BROOKS IT'S OFFICIAL: Too much religion may be a dangerous thing. This is the implication of a study reported in the current issue of the Journal of Religion and Society, a publication of Creig

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Jim Sharkey
Julia Thompson wrote: >It's just harder to beat a scorpion to death, or at least to being >stunned, with one. I don't think I would ever voluntarily move anywhere where regular contact with scorpions was likely. They're definitely far more repulsive than spiders, and they skeeve me out a fair

Arachnophobia (was RE: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders)

2005-10-03 Thread Jim Sharkey
Gary Nunn wrote: >Dave Land wrote.. >>It's a funny thing. The front of my brain tells me that most >>of the spiders I encounter are quite harmless. Something much, >>much further back in my brain makes me want to run away, >>screaming like a little girl. >I realize that my fear of spiders is irr

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Julia Thompson
Russell Chapman wrote: Dave Land wrote: I was at a dinner party Friday night where one of the guests (a real girly-girl) was bragging on the fact that she had faced her fear and killed an extremely large spider in her living room. I told her that killing something that you outweigh by a factor