Jul 29, 2007 | 3:48 PM
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News
Most of my posts deal with corruption in politics (it sickens me), but as the title of this post suggests, corruption is everywhere. Give a guy a little power and they instantly look to benefit themselves and their relatives and friends.
Take a look under all the talent and fancy clothes and you will find people that are much more concerned in lining their own pockets and taking care of family through undue influence and power plays.
Take for instance, William Preucil, the Cleveland Orchestra's Concertmaster. Hired in 1995, when the Cleveland Orchestra was in financial trouble, his big name was expected to increase interest (and revenue) and hopefully bring back the Orchestra from financial disaster. So, even though they were hurting for money, The Cleveland Orchestra hired him at almost $600,000 per year! This is 3 times what the national average for this position pays! For their money, he spends an astonishing average of 12 weeks a year with the orchestra. The rest of the time, he spends traveling around the country and giving private lessons and solo performances (the profits from which go directly into his pocket).
When he is around, he spends some of his time on the auditioning committee. Go figure, his brother-in-law, sister, and daughter now play with the Orchestra. All other Orchestra's across the country use a screen to block the committee from seeing the candidate during an audition. This prevents the committee from considering anything outside of the candidate's talents and ability. Cleveland, however, does not use a screen, allowing the committee to view who they are aditioning. Pretty handy if you want to make sure that you pick just the right person for the job (like a relative with less talent than other candidates).
He also teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music (for which he collects another salary). Even though he is an old fart (and married), he has an eye for the ladies. Especially young ones like students. in 2004, one of his students came forward and brought charges on him for lewd sexual advances that he made towards her. Keep in mind, this was a college freshman. The Cleveland Institute of Music settled the suit by paying for another audtion, transfer and full paid tuition to transfer to another school. If that's not an admition of guilt, I don't know what is.
Let's get rid of this scumbag, and hire another concertmaster. Hell, we could hire 3 equally talented individuals for what we pay him! I don't understand why they keep him.
Jul 28, 2007 | 8:51 AM
Category:
Entertainment
I was talking with my wife last night, and we were discussing the possibility of being stranded on a deserted island with no chance of rescue. In the scenario, you would have a portable DVD player and 10 movies. Which 10 movies would you pick?
Here are my choices:
(1) Star Wars Trilogy. I'm sneaking this one in, even though it's actually 3 movies, they are 3 "chapters" in a story, so I'll count this as one.
(2) Total Recall. Probably my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie!
(3) The Bourne Identity. Great action adventure movie!
(4) Pearl Harbor. My absolute favorite war movie.
(5) Dave. Best Kevin Kline movie. Should be required viewing for all politicians!
(6) The Mummy. The best version of this film classic ever made!
(7) American Pie. One of the funniest movies ever! Just like warm apple pie!
(8) Christmas Vacation. The BEST Chevy Chase movie EVER!
(9) Seabisquit. Great, great story.
(10) The Patriot. Gives you a real understanding of what war should be about.
Of course, the choices for me were really hard. There are so many great movies in my collection that I seem to watch over and over. There are others like:
"The Majestic" Best Jim Carey movie. GREAT story!
"Shreck" Best animated movie.
"Meet The Parents" Funny every time!
"Lord Of The Rings" Long, but great story.
"National Treasure" LOVE this one.
"Dreamcatcher" Creepy horror/sci-fi flick.
If I had my choice, I could have expanded the list to about 50 or so. Only being able to pick 10, was very hard!
These are my favorites...
What would your choices be?
Jul 27, 2007 | 1:25 PM
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News
I, for one, am against a new convention center in downtown Cleveland. What is wrong with the IX Center? I know they claim it is in the way for future airport expansion. If they do tear down the IX Center and replace it with a Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, I will NEVER attend another event.
Jul 27, 2007 | 1:18 PM
Category:
Entertainment
Hard to believe they only lasted 3 seasons!
Jul 27, 2007 | 9:27 AM
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News
My nephew is getting married in less than a month, to a real prissy b*tch! Found some things that help to put it in perspective:
A little girl at a wedding asked, "Mommy, why do brides always wear white?" The mom replied, "Because they're happy, dear."
Halfway through the wedding the girl whispered, "Mommy, if brides wear white because they're happy, then why do men wear black?"
A newlywed couple had just arrived in their honeymoon suite. After unpacking, the husband took off his pants. "Put these on," he said to his wife. She did and they were obviously much too large. "There's no way I can wear these - they're way too big," she said. "Good! Now you know who wears the pants in this family," replied the husband.
Flustered, the wife removed her BLEEP, and handing them to her husband said, "Put these on." The husband looked at the tiny BLEEP and said, "There's no way I can get into these." To which the wife replied, "You're darn right! At least not until you change your attitude!"
A young couple were married and then embarked on their honeymoon. When they returned, the bride ran to the phone and called her mother, who asked, "How was your honeymoon, dear?" "Oh, mama!" she replied, "The honeymoon was so wonderful and romantic..." But then, suddenly she burst out crying and said "but, mama, as soon as we returned home, he started using the most horrible language... things I'd never heard before! I mean, all these awful 4-letter words! You've got to come get me and take me home. Please mama!"
"Darling, darling," her mother said, "calm down and tell me, what words could be so awful?" And, the daughter cried "please don't make me tell you, mama! I'm so embarrassed - they're just too awful! Just come and get me, please!"
"Oh, darling, you must tell me what has you so upset... tell me these horrible 4-letter words!" Still sobbing, the bride said, "Oh, mama... words like DUST, WASH, IRON, COOK...!"
Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.
If your wife is shouting at the front door, and your dog is barking at the back door, who do you let in first?
The dog, of course.
At least he'll shut up after you let him in!
Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more
willing to die.
Three men were at a bar. Two of the men were discussing the control they had over their wives, while the third remained uninterested.
After a short while, the two men turned to the third and asked, "What about you? What kind of control do you have over your wife?" The third man turned to the first two and said, "Well, just the other day I had her on her knees!"
The two men were dumbfounded. "Wow that's incredible! What happened next?" they asked. The third man took a healthy swig of his beer, sighed and grumbled, "Then she started screaming at me to get out from under the bed and fight like a man!"
One day in the Garden of Eden, Eve called out to God that she had a problem. "What's the problem, Eve?" He responded. "Lord, I know you've created me and have provided this beautiful garden and all of these wonderful animals, but I am still so lonely." God replied, "I have a solution for you, Eve. I shall create a man to keep you company."
Then Eve inquired, "What is a 'man', Lord?" God explained, "A man is a flawed creature with aggressive tendencies, an enormous ego, and an inability to empathize or listen. All in all, he'll make life more difficult, but, he will be bigger and more muscular than you, and therefore able to help out around the garden. He'll be really good at fighting and kicking a ball around, and he will enjoy hunting fleet-footed ruminants."
"Okay, if that's the best you can do," replied Eve. God chided "Yeah, well, he'll be better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick! Now, you can only have him under one condition." "What is it, Lord?" asked Eve. "You must let him believe that I created him first."
One day while a wife was working in her kitchen, a cupboard door came loose and when her husband got home, she asked him to fix it. He told her, "Do you see the word 'carpenter' written anywhere on this shirt?" She said "no," and he went on his way.
The next day while cleaning in the basement, she found the light didn't work. She changed the light bulb and did everything that she could to try to fix it, but it still wouldn't work. When her husband got home, she asked him, "Honey, do you think you could fix the light in the basement for me?" He simply said, "Do you see the word 'electrician' written anywhere on this shirt!" She said "No," and he went into the living room to relax.
The next day, a pipe in the kitchen began leaking. When her husband got home, she asked him to fix it for her, to which he replied, "No, do you see the word 'plumber' written anywhere on my shirt?" "No," she said, again.
The next day, the husband returned from work and saw that everything was fixed - the pipe, the light, and even the cupboard! He asked her, "Who fixed all of this?" To which she replied, "I asked the neighbor to come over and help, and he gladly agreed."
"Well, how did you repay him for his services?" he asked. "Well," she replied, "he only asked for sex, or cookies." The husband thought a moment then said "So what kind of cookies did you bake him?" The wife quickly snapped back, "do you see 'Betty Crocker' written anywhere on this shirt!"
One day a man came home to find his wife admiring her breasts in the mirror. He asked her what she was doing and she said, "I went to the doctor today and he told me that I have the breasts of a 16-year-old girl!"
The husband replied, "Well, what did she say about your 75-year-old BLEEP?"
To which she replied,
"Honey, your name never came up!!!"
Jul 27, 2007 | 9:11 AM
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News
Well, Jimmy Dimora has done it again! He has decided to line the county coffers with taxpayers money without asking if the residents of Cuyahoga County really want to pay more taxes or not. Cuyahoga County already has the highest tax rate in the State of Ohio at 7.5%. So Jimmy Dimora has decided that this new increase is good for the county. Adding an extra .25% would bring in $42 million a year, and the tax runs for the next 20 years! You do the math. That adds up to $840 million! The new convention center is expected to cost $350 million. So what are they going to do with the other $500 million? Line their pockets and hand out pet projects to their cronies! Just a side thought--the properties that the county is looking at, for the new Convention Center, just happen to be owned by Jimmy Dimora's buddies, Forest City Enterprises (see my past post on Jimmy and his ties with Forest City).
If Cuyahoga residents think that they can escape the high tax by purchasing items in other counties and having them delivered to their Cuyahoga County residence, think again! The politicians have included a residency clause that would require stores to charge customers the higher tax if they are purchasing something in another county and having it delivered to Cuyahoga County.
Well, the taxpayer once again gets the shaft, and the big shots get the money! And they can't seem to understand why people are leaving the county in droves!?
At least, for once, they didn't ask that smokers foot the entire bill!
Jul 27, 2007 | 7:59 AM
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News
I was so happy to see that the politicians have finally decided to make everyone help pay for a new Convention Center instead of making smokers pay for it. It's about time that we all start paying for public projects!
Jul 26, 2007 | 7:29 PM
Category:
Entertainment
Remember Star Trek? I mean the ORIGINAL Star Trek. When i was growing up, I would look forward to salivating every week over the hottest babes to ever grace the small screen. Point in case, The first Star Trek episode, entitled "The Cage" featured without a doubt one of the most beautiful wome ever on T.V. -- Susan Oliver.
In this episode, she played "Vina" a girl trapped on an alien world looking for companionship. She would do anything and become help re-live any fantasy. Even as far as transforming into an Orion Slave Girl! I can understand why Capt. Pike returned to this world in a later episode (The Menagerie) and decided to stay. A no brainer for me!
Jul 26, 2007 | 6:31 PM
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News
Feel free to pass this information along to anyone that you think could benefit from it!
Surviving a Home Inspection
Depending on what side of the fence that you're on, a Home Inspection could be something that you welcome or dread. From a buyer's standpoint, it is an opportunity to lower the asking price of a house by having someone to nit-pick every little thing that is wrong with a house. From a seller's standpoint, it is like going to the dentist for a multiple root canal with no anesthetics. In fact, it is neither. Home Inspectors are only providers of facts. A good Home Inspector is neither for nor against the sale of a house. Lets face it, we get paid whether the house sells or not. Buyers probably stand to gain the most financially from a Home Inspection. However, sellers can gain too. If a seller knows in advance what a buyers' Inspector will be looking for, they can head them off and relieve a great deal of tension and anxiety. With that in mind, here is what I look for when inspecting a house, and what a seller can do to help to alleviate some of the negative comments that might appear on their report.
Of course, I am only listing the items that an average homeowner can look into themselves, and possibly repair with minor effort. Fixing these things will not eliminate the need for a Home inspection. I do not recommend doing anything that might be dangerous like opening your main fuse box to expose the internal wiring or climbing up on your roof to fix loose shingles. There are some things that you can inspect yourself and repair with minimal effort that will lessen the amount of listed defects in your report.
I will inspect the following components of a house:
I will check for proper drainage around the houses perimeter. The seller should make sure that the gutters and downspouts are in good working condition and do the job that they were intended to do. Clean leaves and debris out of gutters. Be careful! If you are not comfortable climbing on a ladder, do not try to clean your gutters, get a professional. Make sure that they are firmly attached and slope slightly towards downspouts. Make sure that downspouts are in good working condition and direct water towards storm sewers or at least discharge a minimum of 6 feet away from the houses foundation. You may need to purchase some downspout extensions (found in most hardware stores) to get the discharge at least 6 feet from your house. You want water to go away from your house, not settle around your foundation. Get a feel for the property and make sure that the surrounding areas around the outside of your house slope away from the foundation.
Trim your bushes and trees directly around your house. I will note in my report if landscaping is too close to the house and needs to be trimmed. Your house needs to breathe and if it's overgrown with bushes and trees that prevent proper air flow, it will show up on your report.
I will check the exterior siding. Seal gaps and shore up loose pieces. I will not comment on dirty siding (although the buyers probably will), I am only looking for places where water, air and pests can get in. On masonry, I will be looking for cracks and settling. Sellers should repair any mortar joints that are cracked. It is not expensive or hard to do. Your local home improvement store can help. If you are not sure about being able to do it, call in someone that can seal up any cracks. If you can see cracks in your masonry, you can bet that an Inspector will too, and I will mention it in my report.
I will be checking the doors and windows. Sellers should make sure that doors and windows are caulked around the edges and inspect them for possible leak areas. An hour of your time and a few tubes of caulk could save you from a host of negative comments in your buyers report.
While you are sealing cracks, you can also look for, and seal, any cracks you find in your driveway and sidewalks. You will need to use a driveway sealing type caulk.
Cracks in your foundation or basement walls? You can seal them, and should, as it will be noted in my report, but you will need the professional opinion of an Inspector to determine if they are minor or serious.
If your siding has come loose, or a tree branch knocked off part of you gutter, you should try to put it back in place. If the railings on your porch are loose, you should try to shore them back. If your outside steps are loose or worn, again, you should try to fix them. All of these things will be noted in my report.
On to the interior of the house. I will check doors and windows for ease of operation. Go around your house and open all the doors and windows and make sure that they operate smoothly. A small can of household oil for the doors and a bar of soap for the windows will help to lubricate them and get them working smoothly. If you have screens for your windows, round them up and either install them in the windows or put them where I will be able to find them. If your windows are supposed to have screens, and I can't find them, I will note this in my report.
I will check your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. Spend a few dollars and put fresh batteries in all of them. If you don't have a smoke alarm on each floor, go to the store and buy some! You should have a smoke alarm on each floor and they are not very expensive. If you don't have a smoke alarm on each floor, it will be noted in my report. You should also have carbon monoxide detectors anywhere that there is an appliance (gas furnace, gas water heater, fireplace, etc.) that could produce CO if it is not venting properly. Once again, if none are present where they need to be, it will be noted.
Check under all sinks for leaks--I will. This includes bathrooms, the kitchen and anywhere else that you may have a sink or washtub. Sometimes a fitting just comes loose a little bit and needs to be re-tightened. Check the drains and make sure that they work. You can usually unscrew the trap with minimum force and clean it out if there is a blockage. If something has leaked or is leaking, clean up the damage after you have fixed the leak. Make sure that you tell me that you had a leak but fixed it. It looks much better on the report to note that the problem is fixed rather than have me guess whether it is fixed or needs to be monitored.
Replace any burned out light bulbs. If a light does not work, I will note it in my report. An Inspector will not take a light fixture apart to see if it has a burned out bulb in it. They will note in their report that the light is not working. This could lead a buyer reading the report to think that there might be an electrical problem when it is only a 25¢ burned out bulb.
Replace any broken light switch or receptacle covers. I will note it in my report if there are any. They are dirt cheap, and every little thing that you can do to eliminate a negative comment on your report will help. If the switch or receptacle itself is broken, do not attempt to re-wire a new one unless you are familiar with electricity!
If you don't have GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter) outlets in your kitchen, bathroom, and other places where water and humans come in contact with each other, you will need to get some. It is a pretty big deal and you should hire an electrician to install them if you don't know exactly how to do them. They are required and I will note anyplace where one should be and is not in my report. You have to have them! You should even go around and test them, if you have them, to make sure they work, by plugging something into both outlets and tripping them. In 2008 it will be required to have AFCI (arc fault circuit interrupter) outlets in bedrooms, but I will cover this at another time. Information can be found at: http://www.sea.siemens.com/reselec/product/rzafcifaq.h
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Open the cover of your fuse box or breaker box and make sure that the fuses/breakers are clearly marked. Touch the fuse box with the back of your hand FIRST to make sure it is not hot! Spend the time to trip the breaker or unplug the fuse and determine what they protect. If you find any burned out fuses, replace them with a fuse of the same size. Even if you just write it on a piece of paper what each fuse/breaker protects, and tape it to the inside of the panel cover, it will help. If they are not marked, your report will list this as a defect. I carry fuse panel labels with me an will transfer the information to one and stick it to the inside--most inspectors do not--and no inspector will try to determine what each breaker/fuse protects and label them for you--they will just mark it on the report that the fuse box was not labeled..
VERY IMPORTANT--DO NOT take the cover off of the fuses/breakers themselves and expose the internal wiring! There is enough voltage in the box to kill you dead 10 times over! If the box is damaged in any way, has water in it, is humming or looks in any way to be unsafe, DON'T touch it! Call a professional to look at it or wait for the inspector to look at it.
Put a new furnace filter in your furnace, if it takes one. Once again, they are pretty cheap, but a dirty or missing one will be noted in the report. Make sure that there is no clutter or obstacles in front of the furnace, hot water heater, main water shut off valve, electrical panel, or other places where you know the Inspector might want to go. I will move a certain amount of clutter out of my way if I need to get to something, but a lot of Inspectors will simply write in their report that the area was inaccessible and won't inspect it. This does not mean that you should pile a bunch of stuff in front of something that you don't want an Inspector to look at! It puts up a red flag, and it really won't work.
If you have cars in your garage, you should pull them out so the Inspector can properly look at the garage and garage door opener. Once again, if an Inspector can't get to it pretty easily, they will note that they could not inspect it in their report. Even I will not move a car!
If your attic access is in a closet, you should take your clothes out and make sure that I can get into the attic. If you have attic pull down stairs, you should make sure that they work. You could even take a look yourself in the attic and try to determine if you have enough insulation. Your local hardware store should be able to help you to determine if you have enough. It varies greatly by type of insulation and climate. Try not to walk around in the attic unless you can do it safely, you could very easily put your foot through your bedroom ceiling if you step wrong. You could also step on a hot wire. You might just want to wait for the Inspection to determine what to do.
Ants in your kitchen? Although I don't do pest inspections, I did take extensive training at the Orkin Institute. Since I contract my pest inspections out to an affiliate of mine, I would probably only mention briefly in my report that I noticed ants. I can assure you that nothing creeps out a buyer more than seeing ants in the kitchen or bathroom! Pick up some Ortho Home Defense (my favorite) and spray it around the exterior of your house and around the interior baseboards. It works indoors and out. The stuff works great! It leaves no residue and is safe around pets and children. One application and your troubles are gone. Termites are an entirely different issue, and you can check my blog for an article on them.
There are other things that you can do to improve your chances of eliminating negative comments on your Inspection report. Most of them are common sense. If it is broken or loose, you should try to fix it before the Inspection. Anything that is broken or loose will be noted in your report and the more you can fix, the less negatives in your report. If it is going to be in the Inspectors' way, you should move it. Try not to cover anything up that you are worried that the Inspector will find. If an Inspector notices something that looks as though it is being covered to prevent detection, it sends up a red flag and further investigation is usually called for, even if the Inspector notes that someone else should look at it. Take a critical look around your entire house and see if it looks right to you. If it doesn't, it probably will be noted in your report. There are literally hundreds of other components that I will check during my Inspection, however, most are beyond the average homeowners ability to analyze and repair. If you can just accomplish some of the things that I have noted here, your report will have far less negatives in it. The more negatives you can eliminate from your report, the better off you are going to be, and these things I have listed are some of the more common and least expensive items to repair. However, if you ignore these, they will show up on your report!
Let me finalize by saying that Inspectors, as a whole, are not the enemy. We are merely messengers. We have the training and experience to know what is right and what is wrong. Personally, I am here to help everyone involved. If I do find something that is wrong, I will let you know how severe it is and give you my opinion on the best way to solve the problem. I have nothing to gain by nit-picking every little thing that is wrong with your house. I am only trying to make sure that everything is working the way it should and does not pose a safety issue or a financial issue for my client whether it be the buyer or the seller
Mark Taylor
CERTIFIED HOME INSPECTIONS LLC
www.certified-home-inspections.com .
Jul 26, 2007 | 6:01 PM
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News
Received this in my e-mail today. Does this sound like a scam, or what?
Hello!
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You get your 10% commission from each check, that is if
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So if you find our job offer interesting and you wish to try your
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Jul 26, 2007 | 5:53 PM
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Jul 1, 2007 | 8:15 PM
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Because Fox8 deleted some of my posts earlier today, I have moved my blog to an uncensored blog post:
http://marksopinions.blogspot.com/
Anyone looking for the uncensored truth, please visit me there...
Jul 1, 2007 | 11:00 AM
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To all of you that "started" to discuss the situation of the Chinese eating their companion animals, and requested that I supply more information on my sources, I tried. I wrote a few posts with links to Websights and pictures demonstrating that this practice is alive and well in China and other Asian countries. Well, Fox 8 has decided to delete all of my posts on the subject. Apparently, they don't want people to know about this!
I am done with this lame blog!!!
Jun 30, 2007 | 11:14 AM
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PLEASE--Do Not read this if you have a weak stomach!
This post is dedicated to my brother-in-laws dog, Sebastian, his St. Bernard puppy...
St. Bernards are the top "food dog" in China
China has no animal rights laws. Switzerland, has found out that their "national dog", the Saint Bernard, has become a favorite in China. To avoid that their national symbol becomes food for Chinese people, Switzerland has forbidden export of dogs to countries where dogs are eaten, like China, South Korea, etc. So, now, the Saint Bernard dogs and the Danish dogs are imported from Russia at a very high price.
Although international organizations for the protection of Saint Bernard dogs ask that the breeding of Saint Bernard dogs for food should be stopped in China, the Chinese specialists consider the Saint Bernard dog the most adequate breed for cross-breeding and production of meat dogs. Saint Bernard dogs are of very big size and have a very high breeding rate. Specialists have named the Saint Bernard breeding a highly profitable business of the 21st century. In fact, representatives of the Chinese government have imported the first shipment of Saint Bernard dogs which were then sold to breeders for meat production and reproduction.
Economically speaking, to raise Saint Bernard dogs is 4 times more profitable than pigs and 3 times more profitable than raising chickens in China.
They keep the dogs in small cages until it is time for slaughter. When the dogs are big enough, they (the Chinese), believe that if they can increase the adrenaline level in the dog, just before they die, it will create a meat that can increase virility in men. Therefore, they torture the dogs to death. Two of the most popular ways are:
1. Confirmed reports that breeders normally killed dogs destined for the butcher by cutting a hole in the paw and bleeding them to death. ``It's true, and it takes them about 10 minutes to die, but this way the meat tastes better.''
2. They catch the dog with an iron pinch. The dog is petrified. The shop owners assistant starts to beat the dog’s head with a stick. The dog screams of pain and loses all control and urinates and defecates at the same time. As the dog keeps fighting in his agony, the assistant hits the dog once more strongly with his stick. The dog finally collapses. The owner takes a knife and starts immediately opening the throat of the dog. The assistant pulls out all the organs of the dog and removes the skin from the dog. The reason for this? A dog who is scared produces adrenaline, the meat of the dog slaughtered that way is very good for men's virility.
THIS HAS TO STOP!
Jun 30, 2007 | 10:23 AM
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I have always enjoyed looking at strange cloud formations. I found these on the internet, and they blow me away!
