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Who Let the Dogs Out?

2.16.04 @ 12:01AM

SHOW MANNERS
Re: Wlady Pleszczynski's Borzoi Ballet:

My wife and I raise and show Tibetan Terrier dogs so maybe I can answer a few of your questions about what happened to the natural ferociousness that dogs normally show in congested situations.

First of all, if any dog shows any aggressive tendencies at a dog show, that dog would be banned from AKC shows. Rules of the organization forbid aggressive dogs and any breeder who keeps showing up with aggressive dogs could be banned too.

All show dogs are socialized to not show aggressive behavior toward other dogs. We socialized our dogs by taking them to the local nursing home and other public places so they would get used to meeting strangers. Also, we took them to places like Petsmart, Petco etc. to meet other strange dogs. They learn not to be aggressive toward them. They will, however, be aggressive toward any strange dogs that wander into our yard so they will still protect the home. However, I doubt they if are any good at fighting. That is why we keep other big mutts outside to protect the show dogs!
-- Ken Penner
Fairfield, Texas

THE WINNER OF OUR DISCONTENT
Re: Enemy Central's White Mischief:

Kudos, Kudos, Kudos -- superb! Why oh why can't articles like this appear "all over"? And the press wonders what happened to American morality. Just take a look at themselves, and their sixtyish life style and values and they will find the answer. They all think and have the same morality as the Clintons, Fondas, Brokaws, Rathers, Begalas, and on and on. They, and only they, have taken this great country tom its new low! Keep up the good work, maybe, just maybe others will follow -- and oh yes, add the entire staff of MSNBC to the above.
-- Peg

Wow! What a week, With the assertive running of John F'ing Kerry and his EOW well earned, Ms. Rodham Clinton Rodham has real competition. The Red Queen has been silent so far. Perhaps the Clintonistas should have left Moe Howard Deane alone as he was good entertainment, but the new JFK/ Slick Willy persona may prove to blow (sorry) away any chance she has for EOWs any time soon.
-- G.S.
Wayne, Pennsylvania

MORNING READING
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Moronica in America:

Hello and thank you for your insightful article on Moronica in America. There is an irrational hatred toward President Bush that isn't justified. I think voters need to wake up soon, or they'll regret not being involved in the voting process. I remember when I first heard of the Land of Moronica. It was in an old episode of the Three Stooges. The stooges were using a map with Moronica on it. I think the Three Stooges were smarter than some of our fellow voters and leaders. Keep up the great work.
-- Marc Handelsman

I appreciated very much your article "Moronica in America." You were precisely accurate in your definition of what these people should be called. I have been calling them "morons" for years. Your article was refreshing. Keep up the great work!
-- Janene Greene
Princeton, Indiana

CASHING IN TAIWAN
Re: Lawrence Henry's The Weak Dollar Summit:

My guess is that China (just 1.4 billion happy friendly people we are told all the time) will threaten to dump its dollars for Euros this September and force the U.S. to recognize Mainland China's sovereignty over Taiwan. President Bush will beg them not too for OPEC will have driven gas prices the highest in 12 years. President Bush will be boxed in and the U.S. will sell out Taiwan (due to the dollar and North Korea).
-- Jeff Brownell
Herndon, Virginia

Lawrence Henry replies:
Mr. Brownell's scenario has been envisioned by Tom Clancy in Executive Orders. Mutually Assured Destruction fairly well assures that this will not happen. The U.S. could retaliate too easily by cutting off imports from China, as also envisioned by Tom Clancy in The Bear and the Dragon. Who needs what worse? Does China need our dollars worse than we need cheap shoes? Note: If anything like this does begin to happen, you might want to short Wal-Mart (WMT). The retailing giant's foreign purchases amount to 10 percent of the U.S. account deficit.

FLORIDA REVISITED
Re: Shawn Macomber's Dr. Florida's Fever Swamps:

I can't imagine how wrong an economist can be:

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