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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SOUND THE ALARM ASAP to OPPOSE <SPAN id=lw_1179089267_61 style="CURSOR: hand">NJ</SPAN> S1026!<BR><BR>This proposed legislation is going before the Economic Growth Committee at<BR>10 am on Monday, May 14th, Room #1 in the StateHouse Annex in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_62 style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; CURSOR: hand">Trenton</SPAN></st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state></st1:place>.<BR><BR>We need your help to OPPOSE NJ Senate bill 1026 which requires all cats and<BR>dogs released from pounds and shelters be sterilized with certain<BR>exceptions, and establishes penalty for noncompliance.<BR><BR>The bill provides exemptions but the definitions of these terms are<BR>inadequate to protect the right to own and breed dogs responsibly without<BR>undue governmental interference. If approved, this prop
osal will violate the<BR>Constitutional rights of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_63 style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; CURSOR: hand">New Jersey</SPAN></st1:place></st1:state> dog owners. For a copy of the bill:<BR><A href="http://www.njleg./" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_64 style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll"><FONT color=#003399>http://www.njleg.</FONT></SPAN></A><BR><<A href="http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/S1500/1026_I1.HTM" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_65 style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll"><FONT color=#003399>http://www.njleg. state.nj. us/2006/Bills/ S1500/1026_ I1.HTM</FONT></SPAN></A>><BR><A href="http://state.nj.us/" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_66 style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll"><FONT color=#003399>state.nj.us/</FONT></SPAN> 2006/Bills/ S1500/1026_ I1.HTM<BR><BR>Points to Conside
r: <BR><BR>a.. Mandatory spay/neuter is an ineffective solution to animal control<BR>problems because it fails to address the heart of the issue - irresponsible<BR>ownership. Mandatory spay/neuter laws are extremely difficult to enforce and<BR>can be evaded by irresponsible animal owners by not licensing their pets.<BR>More regulations increase the workload of already financially strained<BR>animal control offices, making it even more difficult for them to perform<BR>their duties. <BR>b.. Spay/neuter requirements target all owners regardless of their actions<BR>and would restrict the many responsible breeders who raise and breed<BR>purebred dogs for their enjoyment of the sport. These breeders make a<BR>serious commitment to their animals with the intention of promoting the<BR>sport of purebred dogs and improving the individual breeds. <BR>c.. Strongly enforced animal control laws (such as leash laws), and<BR>increased public education efforts are better ways to address the issue o
f<BR>irresponsible dog ownership. A public education campaign would help teach<BR>community residents about how to properly care for their pets, as well as<BR>the need to be a responsible pet owner. <BR>d.. If your retired show dog, for example, jumps the fence and ends up in<BR>the shelter, you can only reclaim him without neutering by providing<BR>evidence that the dog is AKC registered and has been "shown" within the past<BR>12 months. Never mind that he's a valuable stud dog. Consider that Agility<BR>dogs are not allowed to compete until 15 months of age.<BR>ACT NOW!<BR><BR>NJ Residents: Immediately contact your state representative. Urge them to<BR>OPPOSE S1026 in its present form and to enforce leash laws and promote<BR>responsible dog ownership. Go to <A href="http://www.njleg./" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_67><FONT color=#003399>http://www.njleg.</FONT></SPAN></A><BR><<A href="http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/legsearch.asp" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_11790892
67_68><FONT color=#003399>http://www.njleg. state.nj. us/members/ legsearch. asp</FONT></SPAN></A>><BR><A href="http://state.nj.us/" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_69 style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll"><FONT color=#003399>state.nj.us/</FONT></SPAN> members/legsearc h.asp to find the names, emails and office<BR>telephone numbers of your state representatives.<BR><BR>.<STRONG style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">CALIFORNIA</STRONG> <o:p></o:p></A></A></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHERE LLOYD LEVINE IS TAKEN TO TASK!!!<BR><A href="http://www.whittier/" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_41 style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll"><FONT color=#003399>http://www.whittier</FONT></SPAN></A> <<A href="http://www.whittierdailynews.com/opinions/ci_5875299" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_42><FONT color=#003399>http://www.whittier dailynews. com/opinions/ ci_5875299</FONT></SPAN></A>><BR><A href="http://dailynews.com/" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_43 style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll"><FONT color=#003399>dailynews.com/</FONT></SPAN> opinions/ ci_5875299<BR><BR>Chris Weinkopf: Assisted-suicide bill is an indignity<BR>By Chris Weinkopf<BR><BR>Why should <SPAN id=lw_1179089267_44 style="CURSOR: hand">California</SPAN> adopt Assemblyman Lloyd Levine's bill requiring dog<BR>and cat owne
rs to spay or neuter their pets? Because, the Van Nuys Democrat<BR>has said, doing so would "address the needless slaughter" of as many as<BR>500,000 animals in the state's shelters each year. <BR><BR>Remember that turn of phrase: "needless slaughter." This is how Levine<BR>describes euthanizing dogs and cats. <BR><BR>It's a telling description because, in Levine's view, when the victims of<BR>euthanasia are not animals, but humans, theirs is a "Death with Dignity."<BR>That's the popular name of another piece of legislation the assemblyman has<BR>authored, one that would permit doctors to help kill patients whom they<BR>determine have no more than six months to live. <BR><BR>The bill twice failed to clear the Democratic Legislature in the past three<BR>years, but Levine and his co-sponsor, Assemblywoman <SPAN id=lw_1179089267_45 style="CURSOR: hand">Patty Berg</SPAN>, D-Santa<BR>Rosa, are reluctant to usher it off to an early death. This time, thanks to<BR>the co-sponsorship of Ass
embly Speaker Fabian Nu ez, D-<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>, it could<BR>just pass. <BR><BR>So, too, might Levine's spay-neuter bill. If so, the warped message from<BR><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_46 style="CURSOR: hand">Sacramento</SPAN></st1:city></st1:place> would be: Injecting a stray cat with a lethal medication is a<BR>tragedy; feeding a dispirited and vulnerable senior citizen a lethal medication is a civil right. <BR><BR>But coming from Levine, this all somehow makes sense. <BR><BR>Levine is the same lawmaker, after all, who has proposed banning pet cloning<BR>and the sale of incandescent light bulbs. For him, there are some grave<BR>moral wrongs the law must forbid - like creating two pets out of the same<BR>genetic material, or pole lamps - but barring doctors and HMOs from offing<BR>distressed, suggestible patients isn't one of them. Go figure. <BR><BR>What about doctors who don't want to ge
t into the business of shortening<BR>their patients' lives, physicians who take seriously the Hippocratic oath<BR>and its pledge to do no harm? Not to worry, says Levine; his bill includes a<BR>conscience clause, ensuring that no medical professionals would have to do<BR>anything they consider morally abhorrent. <BR><BR>Take that assurance with a large grain of cyanide. Levine is also the<BR>one-time author of legislation that would have forced pharmacists, against<BR>their moral or religious objections, to distribute abortifacients. As the<BR>assemblyman has demonstrated, when "conscience" goes up against "choice,"<BR>conscience loses every time. <BR><BR>And if the erratic spinnings of Levine's moral compass disturb you, you<BR>won't fine much solace in the words of his suicide bill's co-sponsors. <BR><BR>Take Nu ez's angry response to <SPAN id=lw_1179089267_47 style="CURSOR: hand">L.A</SPAN>. Cardinal Roger Mahony's suggestion that,<BR>by championing assisted suicide, Nu ez is su
pporting a culture of death. "I<BR>support the `culture of death?"' Nu ez fumed. "I don't even support the<BR>death penalty." <BR><BR>Indeed, and the irony is thick. While the courts have suspended capital<BR>punishment in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_48 style="CURSOR: hand">California</SPAN></st1:place></st1:state> out of concern that lethal injection may cause pain<BR>to condemned killers, Nu ez sees fit to bring lethal medications to those<BR>whose only crime is despair. And even though the state is hard-pressed to<BR>find willing doctors to oversee its executions, the speaker wants doctors to<BR>preside over the killing of its terminally ill. (No wonder both the<BR><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_49 style="CURSOR: hand">California</SPAN></st1:place></st1:state> and American Medical Associations oppose this bill.) <BR><BR>Then there's Berg, who rejects the term "assisted suicide" because "suicide<BR>implies tha
t you can live." The terminally ill, according to the logic of<BR>this formulation, apparently can't live, which raises the question: Why,<BR>then, does Berg insist that they need doctors to help them die? <BR><BR>A better question, though, is what makes surrendering to sickness, grief and<BR>financial or familial pressures a "death with dignity" in the first place?<BR>Is suicide somehow more "dignified" than fighting illness or treating<BR>suffering? Is our dignity really lost when we can no longer feed, dress or<BR>take ourselves to the bathroom? <BR><BR>Assisted-suicide supporters insinuate that dignity is not inherent in the<BR>human condition, but contingent upon one's abilities and the value society<BR>puts on them. Stick around too long - become too weak, too feeble - and<BR>you're undignified. Unlike other would-be suicides, your tragically low<BR>sense of self-worth is justified. (No wonder disability-rights groups also<BR>oppose this bill.) <BR><BR>The notion that the inf
irm or dying are lacking in dignity points to an<BR>astonishingly narrow view of humanity. Often, the weak and the sick can<BR>teach the rest of us a good deal about courage, acceptance, strength - and<BR>dignity, above all. <BR><BR>chris.weinkopf@ <mailto:<A href="http://us.f505.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=chris.weinkopf%40dailynews.com" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_50><FONT color=#003399>chris.weinkopf@ dailynews. com</FONT></SPAN></A>> <A href="http://dailynews.com/" target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1179089267_51><FONT color=#003399>dailynews.com</FONT></SPAN> <BR><BR>Chris Weinkopf is the editorial-page editor of our sister newspaper, the <SPAN id=lw_1179089267_52 style="CURSOR: hand">Los<BR>Angeles Daily News</SPAN>. <o:p></o:p></A></A></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Uncle Mort has a way of showing up at the most unexpected times. When he skids to a stop with golf cart smoking and takes porch steps two at a time, it usually means one or all of the following:<BR><BR>• Aunt Maude has had enough, and has suggested, if only in body language, that he might want to go to town for a while.<BR><BR>• The fish aren’t biting.<BR><BR>• Anger has reached a boiling point, and he’s ready to ingest tin foil and spit out roofing nails.<BR><BR>———<BR><BR>Saturday morning, it was all of the above. Maude was busy with spring planting, an annual project too detailed to interest Mort.<BR><BR>“She’s the only woman in the thicket who turns cucumber seeds inside out before planting, hoping to get pickles with dimples instead of warts,” Mort laughed.<BR><BR>His sentences came out in gasps. Within seconds, he was venting on state legislators, folks he thinks may be distant relatives of Wil
l Rogers. “They never met a tangent they didn’t like,” Mort fumed, feeling that this time, they’ve taken things too far.<BR><BR>———<BR><BR>Mort paused to make coffee, filling the pot to the 10-cup line, so I knew I’d best settle in for some listening. “It don’t take much water to make good coffee,” Mort reminded.<BR><BR>He concedes that many of the legislators had good raisin’, but “when they get down to the Capitol, they look past pressing issues.” Instead, they plunge full bore into “minutiae that doesn’t need laws, just common sense.”<BR><BR>On this day, he was in a snit about new laws aimed at dog owners.<BR><BR>———<BR><BR>Lawmakers’ priorities are rarely impeccable, and giving dogs a bad time at this point in history may be “about as ‘peccable’ as it gets.”<BR><BR>My uncle figures canines are now under siege and probably weren’t even consulted when the “man’s best friend” line was coined.<BR><BR>“One of these days, dogs are going to demand a recount, and folks will know that t
his friendship thing is a one-sided deal,” Mort snorted. “If canines vote, we’ll be lucky if they consider us mere acquaintances.”<BR><BR>———<BR><BR>“Why wouldn’t dogs be peeved?” Mort questioned. “They’re being served tainted food, and they’re all tangled up in leash laws. And don’t get me started on dog pounds. A lot of ’em shouldn’t happen to a dog.”<BR><BR>Mort wasn’t through; his litany of front-burner issues had many verses.<BR><BR>He mentioned topics of poverty, immigration, environment, energy, school finance and the like. But taking center stage was legislation underscoring that dogs’ bites are always worse than their barks.<BR><BR>———<BR><BR>Mort unfurled stacks of proposed legislation aimed at dog owners. It shined light into the darkest corners, including “what they knew and when they knew it.” Severity of punishment would no longer hang on “first-bite” details. It would now include detailed historical information, such as the date of each dog’s first fang-showing.<BR><
BR>“Could be that some dog owners will be so scared, they’ll muzzle their pets all the time instead of risk litigation and the possibility of a felony, hefty fines and even jail time,” he said.<BR><BR>He paused to stroke Ole Bullet, his hound dog who’d accompanied him on the golf cart.<BR><BR>———<BR><BR>“I really love dogs,” Mort said. “And they’re due a fair shake. Bullet helps me a bunch and is smart as a whip.”<BR><BR>He told about a heated argument a few days earlier with a farmer who maintains that pigs are smarter than dogs.<BR><BR>“Ain’t no way,” Mort responded. “I ain’t never heard of no seeing-eye pig.” (Bullet nudged me, making sure that I knew when to laugh.)<BR><BR>——— <BR><BR>Mort shifted gears, opting for reflection on bygone years instead of blistering the government. He recalled the Depression era, when neighbors got rid of their dogs because food was so scarce. Mort urged them to simply feed them turnip greens.<BR><BR>When his friends protested that their dogs woul
dn’t eat turnip greens, he responded, “Mine wouldn’t either for the first three weeks.”<BR><BR>———<BR><BR>As he poured his final cup of coffee, I asked Mort if he’d heard about the new Internet contest called “American Idol, Dog Version.” I told him it is for dogs across the nation.<BR><BR>He wanted to know if it has cleared the Legislature.<BR><BR>I glanced at Bullet. He was flossing his teeth. Then, he started howling a tune that sounded a lot like “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?”<BR><BR><BR><BR>Dr. Don Newbury is a speaker <BR><BR>and author whose weekly <BR><BR>column appears in 125 <BR><BR>newspapers in <BR><BR>six states. He welcomes <BR><BR>inquiries and comments. <BR><BR>He can be reached by e-mail at <BR><BR>newbury@speakerdoc.com and <BR><BR>telephone at 817-447-3872. His Web site is www.speakerdoc.com.</FONT></P>
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