I'd pay a lot more for a dog than a baby.

People get mad when you put babies in a cage and leave them alone for a few hours.

Dogs actually have a purpose.

Only reason I got married the first time was I needed a baby but couldn't get one by myself. I used it to prop doors open and chock the car tires when I was working in the driveway.

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But babies will look up at you with their big beautiful eyes and warm your heart with their unconditional love and...lol, even I can't type that crap with a straight face.

Dogs, FTW.

How much is the fine if you just strap the dog to your roof?

This is 100% true. A child may fail out of college, do drugs, smoke weed, bang his girlfriend and get her teen pregnant, or get teen pregnant, and ruin their potential in a thousand different ways in an instant.

A dog? A dog will be a slobbering, dopey, loving companion for the rest of its life, with no catches or requirements to that love.

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Oh, how nice

Fear of no one taking care of you when you're old is such a fantastic reason to spawn.

I have no problem with this, so long as it is fully understood that cats are 200 times more valuable than babies.

Dogs and puppies are 50x more valuable than people. Dogs & puppies have an actual purpose in life. Most people today deserved the coathanger in the head.

/people suck.

I dunno, my husband and I decided on the baby because of the tax credit.

trappedspirit: If it were a baby they can attack you and give you the rabies

My favorite band name......

"Babies with Rabies"

/we thought of it in the 1980s and some UK punk band and some DC a-holes stole it.

Theaetetus: A bill passed in 2012 includes higher fines than a bill passed in 1983? You don't say...

THIS.

Do you know what you could do with $10 in 1983, Subby?

I could get about 9 gallons of gas. You could go into a store with $1 and leave with a 16oz soda AND a bag of chips.

Newsflash -- Romney 2012 campaign authorities announce there will be no campaign appearances by Mitt Romney this year.

Carth: How much is the fine if you just strap the dog to your roof?

My dog loves to be strapped to the roof.

I was working in the restaurant on break having a smoke when this woman walks up to me and asks me if I knew who this suv belonged to. It was a hot summer day and there was a dog in it with one window barely cracked. Well a few hours later I went back out, and I'm assuming it was this woman, but all his windows were broken out with bricks. I don't know if I would have reacted that way, I'm sure the dog was just grateful to have broken glass blown all over it.

Marcus Aurelius: vpb: Marcus Aurelius: Dogs are very very tasty. You know how you can't purchase Kobe beef in the US? Try buying dog meat. The Vietnamese butcher in my neighborhood charges upward of $50 a pound.

What does he charge for baby meat? $0.50?

Humans don't have much meat on them until they're at least 2 years old. Everybody knows that.

Yes, but before that age they can be ground into a valuable Chinese herbal remedy.

So there aren't any OTHER crimes you might be charged with if you leave your child unrestrained in the car?

considering a career change

TFA author's kid should be in a crate. That's one nasty yard ape.

jbc: That's because [2.bp.blogspot.com image 111x102] is 100x smarter than [cdn.thegloss.com image 125x100].

AWW LOOK AT THE PUPPY... and that freak...

To get a dog, I don't have to get fat and puke.

Well, we are talking about Jersey babies after all.

LeroyBourne: I was working in the restaurant on break having a smoke when this woman walks up to me and asks me if I knew who this suv belonged to. It was a hot summer day and there was a dog in it with one window barely cracked. Well a few hours later I went back out, and I'm assuming it was this woman, but all his windows were broken out with bricks. I don't know if I would have reacted that way, I'm sure the dog was just grateful to have broken glass blown all over it.

Windows broken out? Seems like the dog got hungry and decided to eat the woman.

DNRTFA, but I'm a New Jersey resident, and I don't have a problem with this.

Dogs never:

1. Cry at the next table while I'm trying to eat dinner at a restaurant in peace.
2. Cry from 2 rows back when I'm trying to watch a movie.
3. Grow up and steal money from my purse to buy heroin, and then have unprotected sex with their dealer, simultanously getting pregnant and 3 STDS.

This list can go on ad nauseum, but I'm guessing you get the point.

I work with two different state departments through my work in Georgia. The minimum fine levied by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance against a lender who makes a mistake on their mortgage paperwork is $500. Fines range upwards from there. The maximum fine administered by Bright From the Start which regulates childcare centers in GA is $500 for the negligent death of a child.

It's because a large percentage of babies grow up to be Democrats, while dogs will remain eternally loyal and faithful no matter how much you mistreat them... just like Republicans.

And, knowing Christie, he loves dogs.

Dogs are 100 times more valuable than babies

That seems about right. Dogs are loyal companions who will love you, play, and help you relax. Babies are tiny stress inducers who scream and do little else but turn food into poop.

LeroyBourne: I was working in the restaurant on break having a smoke when this woman walks up to me and asks me if I knew who this suv belonged to. It was a hot summer day and there was a dog in it with one window barely cracked. Well a few hours later I went back out, and I'm assuming it was this woman, but all his windows were broken out with bricks. I don't know if I would have reacted that way, I'm sure the dog was just grateful to have broken glass blown all over it.

If he were hungry.

Safety glass is safe.

Trunks were made for dogs.

If it were a baby they can attack you and give you the rabies

as well they should be