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rickjump, ya think I'd make a good offshore oil rig worker? I'm in pretty good shape for my age. My cholesterol levels indicate lower than average chance of getting heart diseas. My blood pressue is right smack dab in the range of normalcy. I attribute this to a good diet low in animal fats and lots and lots of really fresh fruits and vegetables from my own garden, for the last 8 years or so. As well as high quality frozen fruits and vegetables from my garden -- not the dried out refrozen ancient stuff they have in the supermarket frozen food case. However I need to visit my neurologist in Manhatten once a month. Nothing serious. Just some superficial nerve damage to my face. Hurts unless its treated. I have to make another gastroenterologist appointment in a week or 2 to recheck my stomach and duodenum with an endoscope to see if my ulcers are getting better. I probably ought to see a hematologist becuase I have borderline anemia but test for occult blood in stool were negative and my diet includes plenty of iron and vitamin b12. I should get to my urologist too, to periodically check my prostate once every 3 months and make sure the presumed prostate cancer is progressing slowly and doesn't need treatment. And my primary care physician recommended that at my age I ought to have cardiac stress tests by a cardiologist just to be on the safe side. Same thing with a colonoscopy. Plus I have to visit my psychologist once every 2 weeks for counseling regarding coping with chronic atypical facial pain -- not exactly lifethreating -- but the doctor treating the pain with drugs wants to make sure I am relying on non-drug coping methods as much as possible and only using the drugs when necessary. My teeth -- I am going to need a complete overhaul to open my bite up, add height to all my molars, also, a consult with a tmj specialist before they decide on how far to open my bite. Fortunately the dental group I work for is going to redo my bite, so I won't have to make any extra trips for getting it done. I gotta spend only an hour in the dentist chair every week or 2. Most of all of these appointments -- i get there and back with public transportation. Will I be able to get adequate medical care if I live offshore for weeks at a time? How long does one stay, anyway? Can I get back home every few days for these doctor visits? Let's see, prostate cancer is pretty normal for any male over 50. So i'm not worried about the nodules on my prostate. But an eye should be kept on my prostate. Well, a finger. Think I can do some physical labor? I am 5 feet 11 inches tall and weigh 142-143 pounds. I was 140 when I graduated from high school. I am not going to be doing any heavy labor for more than a couple hours a day. Jeez, I just lifted my air conditioner out of my window, all by myself, to take it apart and lube a jammed motor shaft. I think I am going to have to take a hot bath now and wait till tomorrow night to put it back in! Lifting 60 pounds -- yea, I can probably do it once every other a day, no problem. Lift one 60 pound item one day. Sore the next day. Oh yea, I have chronic dire-rear from the Nexium I take for my stomach and duodenal ulcers. No biggie. I just need a few more 10-minute breaks than the average employee. No-one will mind, will they? My parents and grandparents didn't seem anywhere near as healthy as i am, at my age. I think I'm healthier 'cause I've had a better diet and done no drinking or smoking for 35 years now. Heart disease, diabetes, gout, fast-growing cancer -- I have none of these things that they had. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

By the way, I agree that there are people who could get ahead, but are simply too lazy. And that there are quite a lot of them. They are limited only by their own lazyness. But I am convinced that there are also people who also are limited by things that are outside their ability to control. And that these situation are not exactly rare either. And that social service agencies neglect to do simple inexpensive things that could help these people, just because they are too burocratic and unimaginative, to do so. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

billyon writes Even if I had a car, I would not know where to go where I could get another job that pays even 1/2 as much as the one I have now. I won't get another job like I have now until i have many months more experience. Yes to get to work each day I walk 1 hour each way and spend 1.25 hours on (2) busses, each way. To get somewhere that takes 25 minutes by car or motorcycle. No problem as I am in excellent physical health. Tho I was disabled for 34 years and was not able to work full time until last year when treatment eventually became available for 2 physical disabilities that I had and were not properly treated for 34 years. This is not always true. It has been true for me only since last August when I finally got the surgery I needed. But for other people it is not true. Before then I simply would not have been able to walk 2 hours a day to and from the busstops, and I would not have been able to do a computer job that required 2 hands at the keyboard. From 1969 to 1999, I simply was not able to stay awake all day without severe pain. Only in 1999 did i finally find a neurologist who was able to help me function almost normally. Thanks to the internet by the way. And cultural changes within the medical profession as to how my condition may be treated. And 30 years of searching for effective treatment until I finally found it. by the way the batterred woman who likes battered women's shelters better than homeless shelters, gets battered by picking up some poor unfortunate dumb guy off the street. Sleeping with him a few times. Letting him move in. Then harrassing him intentionally until he loses control and socks her. I couldn't help but overhear how she does it. The walls in the building are thin. She tried to lure me into her web, I guess simply because i lived nearby and was convenient. If I were in my 20's, maybe even my 30's, I probably would have been lured in right in, taken the bait, the moment she she lifted her shirt and showed me her belly-button ring. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

billvon writes: Sharing a house or apartment by more than 2 unrelated people is illegal here. Easier said than done. If all your income goes every for basic food clothing and shelter every month -- you have no money to move. Without connections in other places, it is very difficult to determine what places have a combination of high employment of unskilled labor, and lower housing costs. You could easily move to an area you think has better housing -- and find out you can't find work washing dishes there. Getting a higher paying job, where you are, or somewhere else, is not always possible. If you are working 60 hours per week just to have enough money for the basics, it may not be possible to get more education, even if you can find grant money to pay for it. You just may not have time. Especially if you are not in perfect health and medical expertise is that you cannot work more than 60 hours per week without making yourself sicker. I'm not saying these things are impossible. I'm just saying that saying they are "no problem at all" is not true. yes many people here do break the law, rent a 2-room apartment (a bedroom and a kitchen-livingroom) and share it among 6 people. But this usually means poor housing at relatiely high rent. Why? Because if the tenants complain to the town about the house having poor heat or broken stove or whatever, instead of the town citing the landlord for a violation and demanding he fix it, they cite the landlord for renting to more than 2 unrelated people, and demand he evict them. By the way, as well as being a dental materials buyer and materials researcher, I have a part time job (self employed) as a rental and building maintenance agent for a landlord. I have seen first hand how finding a 2-room apartment is not easy for people to find. I interviewed 30 prospects from 1 little classified ad. We had our pick of tenants. About 5 of the applicants were living in homeless shelters when they answered the ad -- and I'd bet they still are. I also have a 2000 square foot vegetable garden which helps me be able to spend substantially less of my income, on food. And I still am having troulbe putting any money in savings. I tend to be chronically behind on my phone bill and my cable internet bill (I don't have cable tv, just internet, which I need for work). My phone bill is only $25 per month. Can I do without cable TV? Yes. No problem. But if I sprain my ankle and have to pay someone to do building and grounds maintenance for a month or 2, that I now do myself -- I may have to worry about not having food. I won't be making another jump until I get more hours per week buying dental materials. Which I won't be able to get until I've worked for a few more months or years at the number of hours I'm working now and have scored enough experience to apply at more dental groups for higher pay or more hours. Hey -- but I am damn fortunate. I'm not hurting for food clothing or shelter just now, and won't be unless something unexpecte comes up. I just had to evict a working single woman with a school age child who couldn't pay her rent. Her car broke down. She spent her rent money on getting repaired since there was no bus service to the place where she worked. She is now back in the battered women's shelter (she got someone to batter her so she could get in -- because it is nicer than the homeless shelter). ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

skydivegirl writes Whether you can do that depends upon how big your paycheck is, and how big your unavoidable (food, clothing and shelter) expense are. In some parts of, for example. the United States, such as the part I live in, a large segment of the population simply is not able to find housing that they can really afford, given the size of their paychecks. I'm talking about people who work full time. Many single people where I live simply can't earn more than about $16,000 per year, before taxes, and can't find a studio apartment for less than $1000 a month -- if they can find a studio apartment at all. There are more people out looking for such apartments, than there are such apartments. This means they have no money for food and clothing, much less for savings. One way to get around this is to take cash advances on a credit card and use it to pay your rent. If you are clever and keep good records you can do this for a few years before the shit hits the fan and you have to declare bankruptcy and then you won't be able to get credit any more. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

ACMESkydiver writes I think the consensus of opinion by the experts is that making an unsolicited comment about how attractive someone's appearance is (regardless of their sex), to the person in question, causes a reaction that ranges from oh what a sweet thing to say, who knows you may be attractive too, to someone with different taste than me to yech get away from me. However there appears to be no harm in making such a comment to someone else, elsewhere, who is not expected to communicate with the person in question (which is what Duke6901 appears to have done, in starting this thread). Am I wrong? Actually, I am quite sure that attractiveness is a result not only of a person's appearance, but of their thoughts and communications, not to mention their actions. by the way, I can't really think of any situation that applies to remarking about a woman's appearance, that doesn't also apply to remarking about a man's appearance. We really aren't as different as many people seem to think we are. However a small difference can make a big difference in social dynamics -- for the same reason a small difference in weight can make a big difference in what position one will end up at, on a see-saw. Weigh just a pound or so less than someone else, and you will be 10 feet in the air and they will be shmushed into the ground. There is an analogy to made from this, in regard to how much attraction 2 people have for each other. Unless it is exactly the same, one falls into a relatively static role of being the hound and the other falls into the relatively static role of being the hounded. Am I wrong? This took me about 60 years to figure out. Too bad I'm 56. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Linny writes I think you said the exact same thing I did, but just in a different way. Heehee. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Can I assume from this that most health insurance has an exemption for injuries incurred while skydiving? Right now I have medicare and medicaid (New York State), but I am planning to start work in a little while, and after a while will be getting health coverage via the job, instead of Medicare and Medicaid. Not sure exactly what this will cover. I have never been seriously ill, and most of my medical expenses up till now have been for dental care -- since New York medicaid only covers sub-standard dentistry. I've already told my employer that I made a tandem jump out of an airplane. I've been dying to make jump number 2 -- it is going to be difficult to save up for that, let alone to save up for insurance add-ons. All my children are grown up so I don't have to worry about them. If I get seriously injure I suppose I could kill myself without this having a severe impact on anyone else. I've had to learn basic accounting but I hate financial stuff. I hate insurance. I hate complicated taxes like income tax. I like to do "real" stuff: Garden and plan my garden; make things with my hands; repair things, like home repairs, internal combustion engines; write about things that I do. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

I'm starting to remember some of the things I did that I think made success easier. I decided not to attempt to quit smoking, but instead, to just not smoke one cigaratte. Next time I got an urge to smoke, just don't smoke that one cigarette to satisfy that one urge. One success. Then smoke the next time, but pick a time where just one time I am not going to smoke 1 cigarette. Eventually I learned how to avoid just one cigarette. Then I was able to repeat it. In other words, don't set too big a goal. Set a small goal that you can succeed at. Succeed at it. Then just repeat the same thing. Introduce new things to eat into your diet. Find some fruit or vegetable you never ate before. Or some dish. Then reward yourself with it -- if you succeed at avoiding one cigarette. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

I smoked fairly heavily from age 14 to age 21 or so. I don't really know how I managed to stop, other than that I was getting coughs and headaches after smoking and I was able to make a connection between them and the act of smoking. I guess I tied in to the negative reinforcement provided by the headaches. If you can smoke with no discernible punity, stopping may be more difficult. Basicly I don't really know what to tell you other than that it is possible and I did it. I know that isn't much help. I didn't go cold turkey though. I gradually reduced my daily consumption. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Seems like there are a lot of websites that combine sophisticated graphics with complete incompetence when it comes to speaking or writing the writer's primary language. Normally I don't like to point out grammatical errors unless they interfere with comprehension. But in this case, I can't resist. Like this run-on sentence "Some people enjoy the rush of hurling themselves out of a plane, others prefer bungee or base jumping, and some crave an element of danger with their thrills, for them, there is a new option." "The possibilities are literally endless, but don't worry, if your not interested in specific elements you want present, that's fine too." Even if we replace "your" with "you're" -- this sentence still makes no sense; it contradicts itself. "We will make your experience so realistic you might forget your paying for this!" Makes me more certain that the the use of "your" instead of "you're" in both the earlier sentence where it occured, and in this one, was not a typographical error. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Interesting that the news media and general public is being informed. Just what the average citizen can do, other than stay away from these locations, doesn't seem to have particularly well worked out and communicated to the general public, does it? At least, I wouldn't know what I ought to do differently, now that I have this knowledge. "Be on the lookout for suspicious behavior." I don't know about that. Peek into truck to see what kind of cargo they are carrying and be on the lookout for bombs? What if the terrorists put put bombs in cardboard boxes that said "carrots" on the side? Should I sneak into trucks and look inside the boxes? I don't know. That's just it -- I don't know. I'm not saying I think the public should not be informed. I think we need not only more information, but maybe some of us could be trained on just how to be effectively suspicious instead of merely generally suspicious. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

bigway Really. Then you need to explain it me, cuz I have no idea how to keep gals around, where I want them around, and no idea how to get rid of them, when I want them to go away. They seem to have minds of their own. Very inconvenient. Frustrating. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

" Stealling garden crops is not threatening your life since you can go buy groceries, " No, if my garden crops are stolen, I can not buy groceries, as I don't have enough money to buy groceries. I won't be able to have food to eat again, until a few months into the next growing season. If someone steals a freezer full of food, in September, I won't be able to replace it, with anything, until sometime about 10 months later, next July. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

I don't claim to know what the legalities are. But it seems to me that loss of property can be life-threatening. If someone were to steal a significant portion of the food I preserved and froze, from my garden, to live on during the winter -- my life and health would be threatened. I would want it to be legal to kill them. On the other hand, if they walked off with a single ear of corn, or a single tomatoe, I wouldn't want to make a big deal about it. Same thing if they threatened to vandalize my tractor, or vandalize my heating system. I could easily get very cold, and sick, and even die, if the heating system was damaged so as to make it not work. Perhaps others may view this as only "property." I think my life depends on these things. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

??? Aren't you allowed to do "whateer is necessary" to prevent someone from robbing you or the company you are working for? He was trying to get away with stolen money. She is allowed to do shoot him, to kill, to prevent that. If she was in imminent danger of losing consciousness due to severe injuries he inflicted, shooting to kill would be about the only way to prevent him from getting away. Near where I live, about a year or 3 ago, an enraged man banged on his neigbor's door, and started breaking the door down, or breaking through it, with his fists. The homeowner shot him, through the door, and he stopped breaking in, and died a little while later. No charges were pressed against the homeowner. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

bigway writes OK, here's the thing: women, like everyone else, feel happier when they know other people think they are attractive. And people, including women, like people that make them feel good about themselves. So it is a good idea, if he wants a woman to like him, for a man to do and say things that communicate that he finds a woman attractive. At the same time, a woman is likely to find a man unattractive, if the man communicates, directly or indirectly, that he finds her more attractive than she finds him. This is something that people naturally find cloying, and the more he communicates that he finds her attractive, the more likely this is to make the man increasingly less attractive to her and less liked by her. The trick to getting a woman to like you and want to be around where you are, as opposed to want to be somewhere else, seems to be to communicate to a woman that you find her attractive, while at the same time not communicating that you find any more attractive than she finds you. I don't think I know how to walk this line. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

I was more thinking along the lines of satisfying the kids' curiosity -- take them on a field trip -- let them handle guns under supervision. Let them see and hear guns being fired, and the effect that bullets have on watermelons and canteloupes. That should impress them about why they should be careful -- bring some reality to the situation rather than bore them with abstractions. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

JohnRich writes Tho it might be hard to convince the publice to have special courses in gun safety plus gun use, I don't think it would be too difficult to include some gun-safety education as part of health education or whatever. I think this could be done in a way that is acceptable to both pro-gun and antigun parents. What to do if you find an unsecured gun: basic things like checking the chamber, working the safety, pointing out that you should never point the gun at anyone, unless you are preparing to possibly kill them in self-defense. Pointing out that bullets go thru walls and people in the next room or even the house next door can be in the line of fire. We have sex education of this sort. We teach small children how to cross the street safely -- motor-vehicle encounter safety. Moter vehicles are ubiquitous; in recognition of this fact, such training has long been done. Same thing with basic fire safety. We teach children how to make sure that matches totally out, before putting them in a waste basket. Gun-encounter safety could be similar. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

AggieDave writes I've always wanted to skydive as long as I can remember, but kept putting it off because it wasn't exactly a "necessity." The publicity around Bush's jump motivated me to stop putting it off, and jump at the opportunity -- when we drove past the sign that said something like "jump now, no reservations necessary" and my son said "you wanna see grandpa jump out of an airplane," and offered to pay for it. I guess I was jealous that GB might be having more fun that I was having. Now I can't stop thinking about doing it again. Nice photos DWher, tho I wish they were bigger, and we could see GB's facial expressions better. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

I don't think it is just you. I thought the same thing. Personally, I think people look more attractive if they have a big smile on their face, or smile at you when they see you, and skydiving seems to bring out these kinds of smiles. If you want to get into biological theories of what makes someone look hot: (1) one must be reasonably physically fit to skydive, and the physically fit always look better than the physically flagged. (2). I would think that the excitement of skydiving causes an increase in adrenalin and testosterone, in both males and females, both of which hormones increase sexual feelings as well as a general feeling of well-being. I noticed that not only did the experienced skydivers look attractive, but that the first-time tandem female skydivers. looked attractive. There is something about being outdoors in nice weather and having fun doing a physical activity, and being happy, that makes everyone, male, female, or in-between, look better. I find that the attractive appearance of female skydivers, and yes the attractive appearance of male skydivers, even tho I am not gay or bi, is one of the attractions of skydiving. I can't wait till i save enough money for my next jump; I hate being relegated to sit in front of my computer and talking about skydiving rather than being out doing it. That doesn't mean I want to go skydiving, thinking there is a chance that I might be able to become more intimate with one of the female skydivers. I would think that having attractive young women around is, in and of itself, a good thing, even if there were no chance of becoming "intimate" with any of them, and even if know they are going to be going home and be intimate with someone else. I think I would still like healthy, happy, horny young (men and) women, even if I had had surgery to have my penis and testicles removed. And I think I have finally reached the age and degree of maturity where I know when admiration turns into harassment, and where I know when to stop doing what I am doing, because a woman is feeling harassed by it. After she calls the police, right? ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Thanks for the feedback flighty. Yes, the sphenopalatine ganglion is part of the trigeminal system. I think there are 3 branches and I have a problem with only one or 2 of them, but maybe all 3, they aren't sure. So i think they consider what I have to be a kind of trigeminal neuralgia. They wanted to do the same thing to me, radio-frequency something or other. but I would prefer to not risk this as I get fairly good control by other methods such as scrupulously avoiding ambient tobacco smoke, by using nasal decongestants, and by occaisional use of lidocaine nose drops, and a bunch of systemic analgesics, including strong ones for emergencies. Mine came on fairly suddenly 35 years ago, and slowly improved over the course of about 10 years, but never went completely away. I got a lot of help starting in 1999 when I finally got hooked up with a good multidiscipline pain management center that got a good handle on the problem. Up till then I lived in conatant fear of uncontrollable pain. Until then I would have been afraid of jumping, and perhaps then having to deal uncontrollable pain for weeks afterward. Now I know that if that happens, there will be a doctor with drugs to help me. Fortunately, 45 seconds to a minute of 120 mph air, wasn't enough to cause a week-long problem. It didn't seem to be nearly as bad as a typical blustery winter day. There was some pain for about 2 minutes after the chute opened. By time we landed I was back to normal. But it still partially spoiled my enjoyment of the jump. This didn't really matter a lot though, as most of the enjoyment was not the jump itself, but getting to spend a few hours with my son and grandchildren, surprising my son who was pretty sure that I was going to chicken out even before I was suited up and the day was not going to cost him anything, and knowing that my grandchildren were going to tell people that "grandpa jumped out of an airplane." Oh yea, also there were all those pretty young women with ear to ear smiles on their faces. Goodness gracious. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Ron said tkhayes replied I don't think it is so rare. Not at all. I used to grow canteloupes and watermelons in a suburban neigborhood which had a bit of a gang presence and a small to moderate crime rate. What kind of neigborhood? One where, every few months, I had to replace my mailbox, and so did many, if not most, of my neighbors. While the mailbox was relatively easy to replace, my melons were not. I depended on my melons for life-sustaining calories, both in-season, and frozen during the winter. They were a main source of decent palatable fruit during the winter. Also, I don't think there was any other practical way to have melons grown in high-quality soil that was rich in high-quality, decomposing vegetable matter, and low in pesticides, and low in disease-transmitting, and heavy-metal-containing animal feces. Each season, I had several hundred melons growing in my back yard. Fencing was needed to keep dogs, owned by inconsiderate neigbors, from damaging them. The loss to rabbits (they eat the leaves and killed the young plants) was small. Smaller than the loss due to domestic dogs. But fencing the garden wasn't enough to keep out low-life humans. Neither was calling the police and explaining the problem, and explaining that I needed the melons for sustenance. I think that the police seemed to think that this was no big deal, and that I should simply apply for foodstamps, if my melons should eventually all be smashed. At one point, humans started smashing melons at the rate of more than 1 a week.They would throw them against the side of the house. No, it wasn't monkeys. At this point, my sustenance, and life, was being threatened. I could easily have lost my whole crop to these lowlifes. If they were eating the melons, I might have been more understanding of their actions, like I was of the rabbits' actions, but their actions were intended to hurt me, not to provide themselves with something they needed to live. One day a gang of about 15 youths appeared in the street and started yelling, and calling me names. Normally, I think it is best not to give advance notice to criminals, about what kind of weapons you have to defend yourself. Why help them plan ahead, plan what to bring? I think it is important to note that most criminals are lazy, lazy people. Unlike movie criminals, they don't usually have lots of people-harming skills, or work hard, or smart, to harm people or deprive people of things. They usually head straight toward those who they perceive as the easiest to pick on. Simply walking out of my house while holding a firearm, caused them to instantly change from screaming, taunting, and name-calling dog-like animals, to rabbit-like animals running away at high speed. It also ended the melon-smashing problem. I think this one appearance saved me several 100 canteloupes and a few dozen watermelons, over the course of a growing season, or two, and I think this kind of use for firearms happens much more often than you might think, tkhayes. While I did not even need to point the firearm at anyone, I was prepared to fire it, fire it as much as law, public opinion, and my own sense of what is right and wrong, would permit me to fire it. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Ron says Please let me keep my gun. I no hurt anyone. Seriously, the "mentally ill" have a lower rate of arrest for crime, violent or non violent, than the general population. For every "sociopath" there are thousand of people suffering from debilitating anxiety, depression, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, who are not malicious or harmful. In fact, those with obsessive-compulsive disorder are probably more likely to be "nutty" about gun safety -- take gun safety to an extreme. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

By the way, the reason people want to regulate guns, but don't seem to want to regulate cartridges, is they think of the guns as a "killing tool" and don't think of the cartridge as a killing tool -- even tho you ain't gonna kill anyone to easily with just the gun. Ironically, just the cartridge is more useful as a killing took than just the gun. You can empty out the nitrocellulose from the cartridge and make a bomb. If you have cartridges, you can relatively easily find or make a pipe to make a killing device, that will direct the cartridges toward your victim. If you have a pipe -- it is much harder to make the cartridges you need to make the pipe into a killing device. Yet regulators ironiclly focus on regulating the easier to make yourself half of the 2-part took. This is more evidence that it is language and culture that influences their view, and not fact. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.