Hat tip to Wagga for this rather depressing find."I am morally prohibited from voting for Hillary in the primaries because of her war vote”
Yeah, MM is slightly crazy, but how the hell did Billary get the Catholic Democratic votes in key states? Latino angle, I would assume.
Nonetheless, Obama is the one and the only solution to McCain's mental mush of a concept (yes I respect the time and hell he served in Vietnam unlike the Bush and Clinton admin, but McCain is not a f-ing leader). I want a fucking leader and that leader is Obama!
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Murst!
Sad.
Any idea what kind of whales those are?
Apparently they were a mother and calf minke whales. I've updated the post with the gruesome video.
In other depressing Arctic animal news Bush Calls for More Arctic Drilling.
As long as mankind infests the earth the other animals are better off dead. Sad, but true.
In other animal news: Dick Cheney couldn’t call a yellow cab for the dog, or get Lynne to drop off the pooch, no - he procured 2 limos and Secret Service protection to take his Lab to the vet for a routine visit.
The Onion summarizes the candidates' Iraq war views
@Ogg,
I particularly like the Ron Paul one: "Opposes it for some complicated libertarian reason best explained in a rambling, discursive way by your office I.T. guy."
More on Vick's dogs at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary: Vick's fighting dogs get second chance at life
I thought this was just awful:
One dog, Georgia, had all 42 of her teeth pulled. Caregivers believe it was to prevent her from attacking male dogs during forced breeding.
"We don't know who did it. We assume it's because she was such a valuable breeding dog," McMillian said. "Very often females will not accept males in breeding and will attack."
None of them are going to get us out of Iraq. I don't know where they got those quotes, because HillBillie has no intention of pulling out now or ever.
The Onion is satire.
BTW, the section on already-defeated candidates (scroll down) and the individual candidate profiles are good for a chuckle.
The Onion is satire.
Oops!
The Onion is satire.
You mean Obama doesn't plan to have our soldiers tell the Iraqi soldiers that they're just going out for some smokes and sneak back home? I could have sworn he said that in the last debate.
It is pretty funny that I just took that quote from hillbillie at face value.
I would never have voted for the war if I had known how unpopular it would become...
LMAO!!
Speaking of Billary I just decided to donate more money to Obama after reading about her latest fundraising ploy.
food for thought
@Wagga,
Well, I don't believe in killing lambs either, but most slaughterhouse deaths are far more humane than these slow painful ones.
As I've said before, I believe that those who make the absolutist argument as in Wagga's link are guilty of the same hypocrisy that they attack. All of us, even the most strict vegans, have blood on our hands. The author of that article most likely thinks nothing of eating grain, even though mechanical harvesting does a number on the rodent population every year. He also has probably come to terms with the destruction of animal habitat needed to grow his food or harvest the materials that went into the house that he lives in.
We all have blood on our hands, and we all draw the line between what we can and can't accept in different places. Unless the author lives a strict gatherer lifestyle, he's decided that he is ok with animals being killed to provide his meal as long as he doesn't actually eat them. I'm ok with animals being killed to provide my meal as long as they aren't too cute. The difference between his position and mine is a matter of degrees, not the black and white distinction that he argues we must all adopt.
Either we abhor violence in all forms against creatures with whom we share the planet, or we don't. There is no middle ground. There is no reasonable position that allows mass murder for one species and spirited protection for another.
And yet the author occupies that very middle ground. Out of sight, out of mind.
I find my meat-eating standards to be less than rational. Brought up in Oz, I had my fill of mutton by an early age (& porrige,
too). Never attracted to lamb, & knowing the process of veal production leaves me cold to that possibility. In Oz, we were
taught that swine carries a nasty parasite in all the world but Oz, so I eschew that, too. I suppose that I rationalize that it
is OK to eat dumb animals (chooks, turkeys, fish, and occasionally some dumb hoofed beast). I'm not Jewish, though. Kangaroo is
bloody tough & carries parasites. I had a joey pet early in my life, so Kangaroo-tail soup is off the menu.
Whales & dolphins have big brains and appear to have the gift of language - something we need to get sorted.
On the other hand, It's documented that plants have a form of communication (with pheromones). Uh-uh shouldn't eat plants?
I have cats that are outside some of the day. Radar, at least, gets feathers in his whiskers sometimes.
Yesterday, I was chatting with friends out the front of my house & a juvenile red-tail hawk collected a young dove not even 3 feet from where I stood. Nature - red in tooth & claw.
My favourite foods involve hops & grapes.
Maybe the best food of all is Irish Coffee - it has all 4 of the critical food groups - alcohol, fat, sugar & caffeine.
Like I said - irrational.
The eat or not to eat meat (and what sort) formula that I've followed since I was a kid was based upon a very simple concept:
Would I feel comfortable killing the animal I’m eating?
Over the years I’ve reworked it based upon endangered and overly antibiotic-ed status (have not touched chicken in 10 years after a very bad experience with a chicken burrito and only eat turkey on Thanksgiving) among various other issues that play into it.
Yeah, I could kill a chicken, a turkey and fish (unless they are unique koi) with my own hands, but I’d have to be starving to death to kill a pig, lamb, whale, dolphin or dog...
I hate the disconnect people seem to feel when they eat bacon.
I hope I don't sound like a pro-mammalist because I killed many of them for my pre-cats and dogs pet snakes with indigestion.
With regard to McCain, there appears to be some doubts about his having been tortured while a POW in VietNam.
@Vierotchka,
This certainly sounds like a classic U.S. politician (at least if you replace "know" with "hear"):
"The Vietnamese Communists called him the Songbird, that's his code name, Songbird McCain, because he just came into the camp singing and telling them everything they wanted to know," said McLamb.
Here, I do not actually imagine it will have effect.
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