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Yep, they are great! Protecting their owners 24/7
When I was a kid had a paper route.
Oh man you had to learn how to ride your bike off and on peddling to get away and kicking the dogs from biting you.
I was blessed, no dobies or shepherd's.
Those dogs were mostly mixed breeds and I do believe the favorite part of their day was chasing me on my bike.
Once you knew your route you knew what street to be on high alert.
For the love of money. LOL!
They are great dogs. Unfortunately to many people get them that are clueless about what they are going to be dealing with in lot of dogs.
Very sad.
Those dogs will lay down their life for you with no second thoughts.
The Wise Woman's Stone
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream.
The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food.
The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation.
The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime.
But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
“I’ve been thinking,” he said, “I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious.
Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."
The running definitely the dobie.
Water? Not sure.
If you've watched dobies run they are amazing runners.
Shepherds though don't run like a deer they are more low to ground without the bounding like deer and dobies have.
Both dogs can run and jump amazing amount.
You can see vids on youtube of shepherds trained to jump through a vans window to go after the dude pointing a gun at you.
Got to have lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to buy one trained that well but they are out there.
Decades ago I had a dobie/german shepherd.
Ran like a deer.
Loved the water which I thought was weird.
Great dog.
To much smoke all over the country not to see the fire!
They only see what they want to see.
So ... Leave the Gate Open
If you leave the gate open, the cow will wander off. So if you intentionally leave the gate open, you want the cow to wander off. You can't blame stupidity or laziness. It was intentional.
If you cut police budgets, you will get more crime on the streets. So if you intentionally cut police budgets, you wanted more crime on the streets.
If you cut back the supply of oil, gas prices will go up. So if you intentionally cut back the supply of oil, you wanted gas prices to go up.
If you print trillions of dollars without increasing the supply of goods, inflation will hit hard. So if you intentionally print trillions of dollars without more goods, you wanted inflation to hit hard.
If you leave the southern border wide open, you get more drug trafficking and human trafficking. So if you intentionally leave the border wide open, you wanted more drug trafficking and human trafficking.
If you shut down 40% of the supply of baby formula in February, you'll get a huge shortage. When you KNOW a huge baby formula shortage is coming because of the FDA's actions, and you purposefully do nothing to prevent it, month after month, until the crisis finally hits hard, you INTENDED this crisis.
It is time to recognize the evil people behind that old man. " You can feel the quality of your life going down with the country. These are not foolish or misguided people. They are headed somewhere you don't want to go.
Bingo!
About sums it up. They are NUTS!
So glad my Dad isn't here to see what happened to the country he thought he knew.
Not much changes from stocks to bitcoin.
Country full of corruption.
Winners already picked.
We living in the Twilight Zone!
LOLOLOL!!!
Would never buy one of those because of their monopoly on repair.
Most ridiculous thing I've heard of.
Remember long ago was an article about this but it didn't involve a hacker it was talking about the system.
IMO another tactic to buy votes.
Just like the border.
They don't care about consequences only that they can stay in power.
Yep, clear case of them being out of their minds.
Yep, do not force your turd lifestyle on me. Bingo!
Yes, I read that. Feel so sorry for that woman.
They are competing with California & Oregon.
If I could afford to move I would.
One good trend I do see going on though is home schooling.
School districts numbers going down because people finally coming to the conclusion they aren't public schools anymore.
Our libraries have trans reading stories to our kids.
Like the vast majority our colleges so called public schools are indoctrination camps.
Long time ago this was thought up to get rid of loopholes, cost of the IRS, a fair way to tax all.
Exempt from the ridiculous tax code that even the IRS will give you 5 different answers from 5 different agents cause they don't even understand it's such a mess.
Yet, the CRIMINAL cartel never listens to ............. "We the People".
Had enough yet?
https://fairtax.org/
I've pretty much given up hope.
Country full of sheep incapable of thinking for themselves.
Back when you insulted people with some intelligence instead of today where it's F you.
And F this, F that, those F'rs.
WOW!
Do people ever stop and hear what they are saying anymore?
I don't think so.
All they care about is fitting in.
These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words ...............................
1. "He had delusions of adequacy ” Walter Kerr
2. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill
3. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow
4. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
5. "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
6. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas
7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain
8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde
9. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.” -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
10. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response
11. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here” - Stephen Bishop
12. "He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright
13. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb
14. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson
15. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating
16. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker
17. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain
18. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West
19. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde
20. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
21. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilder
22. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx
23. The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
24. "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
25. "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard
26. "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed
27. "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) —Robert L Truesdell
LOL!
WOW!
When will it end?
West Coast crime ring busted for trafficking $22 million in stolen catalytic converters
Aug 12, 2022, 2:58 PM
BY MYNORTHWEST STAFF
Police in Beaverton, Ore. arrested the alleged leader of a crime ring responsible for stealing and trafficking more than 44,000 stolen catalytic converters since January 2021, with an operation that stretched into Washington state and across the entire West Coast.
Detectives say they identified 32-year-old Brennan Patrick Doyle as the operation’s leader. They searched his home on Lake Oswego last week, along with seven other properties, seizing more than 3,000 catalytic converters.
The crime ring was centered in the Portland metro area, but reached as far as New York and Texas, according to Beaverton police spokesperson Matt Henderson.
Catalytic converters became a hot commodity for theft during the pandemic due to the high-priced metals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, within them. Rhodium’s worth alone fluctuates from $16,000 to nearly $26,000 an ounce, according to cars.com.
The value of the parts stolen by this crime ring is estimated to be over $22 million.
Catalytic converter theft runs rampant in Seattle, nation sees dramatic increase
Fourteen individuals were indicted from the crime operation, including Doyle, who’s facing 72 different charges — racketeering, aggravated theft, and money laundering, among others.
Washington passed a new law earlier this year, HB 1815, unanimously in the House and Senate to help prevent this type of theft in Washington.
Washington has the third-highest catalytic converter theft rate in the country, according to national statistics. In 2019, there were only 42 statewide thefts. Now catalytic converter theft is up approximately 10,000% in Washington state over the last three years.
The new law requires ID and a traceable method of payment for catalytic converter sales so that sales of catalytic converters will be legitimate. The legislation is also creating a group to address ongoing issues.
Jail time for this crime does not increase under this law.
Maine, Louisiana, Florida, and California are just some of the states adding preventative legislation against the rampant increase of catalytic converter theft alongside Washington.
In 2021, State Farm alone paid $23 million to California consumers due to catalytic converter thefts.
The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs will establish, as funded, a grant and training program to assist local law enforcement in support of special enforcement targeting metal theft.
HB 1815 also requires scrap metal businesses to keep documentation ensuring catalytic converters come from vehicles registered in the seller’s name. This provision builds off other requirements to preserve evidence of stolen property.