A Whale of a Controversy

Japan's dolphin-hunting industry gets skewered in The Cove, a just-released documentary by director Louie Psihoyos. But after this year's setbacks at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting, dolphins aren't the only marine mammals that are in trouble.
H/t Wagga!

19,000 Slaughtered

Images of the first phase of Canada's 2009 seal pup massacre.

Underwater

Underwater by ~gemmylostx3


Funfair by *Sugarock99

Uplifted by *alberich

Monsters Are Good For You

Although I can't read much of it I still think this blog is pretty groovy.

I'm heading out the door now, but I have some real fishnet to post on Nuclear Tentacles later today.

Blonde Zombies

INSEMINOID from Outer Space!

via Blonde Zombies

Jason Clay Lewis via Phantasmaphile

Happy Fishnet Friday!

TGIFF!

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE! I'm too lazy to create a new post, but I like this song from Fabulist.

vintagegirlymags.com

Visit Frightening Prospect for more frightening finds!

Funny Juxtaposition and comment over at the Percy Trout Hour: Baffling Maverick

Sarah Palin Sex Doll and SAT Scores

Sarah Palin Sex Doll Now On Sale

Sarah Palin’s SAT Scores?
I hope this is a hoax. Doesn’t one automatically get similar scores just for showing up?

On a related note:

Spam: Horror in a Can

little piglet by ~cinemaentete

Some of these piglets convulsed for more than 12 minutes before dying.



Although pigs are even smarter than dogs and can be just as sociable, they are treated in this horrifying manner:

• A supervisor shoved a cane into a sow's vagina, struck her on the back about 17 times, and then struck another sow.


• Multiple pigs were beaten with metal gate rods, and lacerations were found on more than 30 sows - which is probably evidence of more abuse.


• A worker hit a young pig in the face four times with the edge of a herding board, and investigators witnessed dozens of similar incidents involving this worker and 11 other workers.


• Two men - including a supervisor - were witnessed jabbing clothespins into pigs' eyes and faces. A supervisor also poked two animals in the eyes with his fingers.


• A supervisor kicked a young pig in the face, abdomen, and genitals to make her move and told PETA's investigator, "You gotta beat on the bitch. Make her cry."


• A worker who weighed an estimated 315 lbs. punched a sow on the back three times and said that he sat on a sow's head.

Unfortunately, much of this is not uncommon. For example, piglets are regularly castrated without anesthetics. Just something to think about over your next ham sandwich.


Mun sylilapsi Santana lampissa by ~blindboysneverlie

WEIRD: Blogger ate my somewhat more positive updates.

UPDATE
Happy antidote: children's songs for adults

We Intend To Create Atom Smashing Havoc

I've been meaning to mention this groovy blog I discovered via The Groovy Age of Horror. Nice boots!
Creating havoc sort of ties into smashing atoms and I've been pretty intrigued with the whole LHC concept (at least there's something to get my mind off of politics), but Edgar seems to believe it is the beginning of the end.
If one has to go, I can't imagine anything cooler than (the very slight possibility of) being sucked into a black hole and possibly another dimension (woohoo!) so I'm not all that concerned.

Wow, they still make this T-shirt. Mine is torn to shreds along the lines of the Nietzsche fish one from a million years ago.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!
Aerial wolf killing, moose eating Sarah Palin can Suck it!



Everyone was big on intention and intending back then.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die!

This and many other bizarre posters can be found at Wrong side of the art via PCL LinkDump.

UPDATE: I fixed the link above. Also, forgot to mention that this old movie poster reminds me of the horrid Russian experiment with a dog:



I believe this is the full version of the film:



UPDATE #2: It appears to be some sort of Schiavo-related remix.

UPDATE #3: WTF? Ogg forwarded me this utterly screwed up formula that suggested:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 26%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 74%

Luba likes the economic stimulus package

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Decapitating Sarah Jessica Parker

Seems like London’s resident mad doctor of street art THE DECAPITATOR feels the same way about Sarah Jessica Parker’s horse face and the impending Sex & The City movie as the rest of us do…

À la recherche du temps perdu

memorial day by ~herekittykittay



memorial day by ~annalavigne

While you're enjoying your BBQ and day off, please take a moment to think about the more than 4000 troops in Iraq who died for...For what exactly?
Think of how many others are seriously crippled, brain-dead, committing suicide and ask yourself FOR WHAT EXACTLY?
FOR WHAT EXACTLY?????!!!!!!!!
For fucking what exactly?!!!!!!!
FOR FUCKING WHAT EXACTLY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When you find an answer that makes any ethical sense, please feel free to let me know what it might be.

"Negative energy to fill the fuel tank of her spaceship"

The mastermind behind all the mayhem is this innocent-looking little girl, pictured here talking to her robot servant. She's really a crash-landed alien, and desperately needs negative energy to fill the fuel tank of her spaceship, otherwise she can't return home. (negative energy = pain, fear, guilt and any other bad emotions she can milk out of humans)
More absurd Terror Blu insanity over at The Groovy Age of Horror.

Edgar has discovered yet another bizarre Billary find:

Very sad and frustrating

Milatry junta: “Myanmar is not in a position to receive rescue and information teams from foreign countries at the moment,” the statement, from the Foreign Ministry, said.

An aid worker in Burma, Tim Costello, chief executive of World Vision Australia, warned of an epidemic of "apocalyptic proportions" if aid did not get through.

More disturbing images at Golden Colour Revolution.

Given the nature of the Burmese government, I think AVAAZ.org's plan to route funds via the monks may be the most effective and expedient. As they state "other forms of aid could be delayed, diverted or manipulated by the Burmese government--but the monks are the most trusted and reliable institution in the country. "

Lassie for Dinner

This story really disturbed me...

On my first trip to China I met a dog who was a dead ringer for Lassie. He lived with a dozen other dogs at a remote training camp for Olympic skiers in Manchuria, where a friend and I were spending a few days as we explored the area's backcountry skiing. In return for food and lodging we gave the Chinese athletes some clinics in American ski techniques.

The dog quickly became my friend. He would twirl happily in my arms before I headed up the slopes each morning and would be waiting for me when I returned. Dropping to my knees, I'd play tag with him, and he'd wag his tail so hard that his entire body would shimmy. The Chinese skiers paid no attention to the dogs.

On the day before we departed, at lunch, our translator stood and called the mess hall to silence. "To thank our American friends for showing us so much about skiing," he announced, "our chef will prepare a special dish tonight." He nodded to the head coach, who waved his hand toward the door. Two of the Chinese skiers, standing at the ready, opened it with a flourish, and the white-aproned chef stepped inside, holding aloft my friend, the collie, by his tail. He had been gutted from throat to groin.

Stunned, I couldn't say a word, but that evening when a large platter of dog meat was put in the center of our table, I regained my voice. My ski partner, a better cultural ambassador than I, gingerly took a few bits of the dish with her chopsticks. I declined. "Please thank the head coach," I told our translator, "but I can't. I have too many friends at home who are dogs."

More from An Olympic disgrace



When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.

Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org.

This is very disturbing video of raccoon dogs and foxes being skinned alive. It is horrifying to see a completely conscious raccoon dog moving about for a good 5 to 10 minutes after being completely skinned alive. Why can't they at least bother to make sure the animal is dead before skinning them? Absolutely cruel, inhumane and barbaric!

If you see someone wearing fur you might want to remind them of the torture the animal had to endure.
In this Beijing News report, half the raccoon dogs and foxes were skinned alive.






Further memories of drafting the 80's and meat is murder (yet fur is worse)!

When will it end?

Humpty Dumpty by ~ravencrown

The First Ladies by ~xelalex42

Mein Fuhrer update for Buzz Saw:
Hitlery is wearing a flag pin so she must be patriotic.

Edgar's Toilet weighs in.

Another Hitlery update for Buzz Saw:

Hitler-ly Clinton by ~Ultraloco

Another breaking news update!
Yes, I shall encounter my 20th High School reunion this year and I'm not so sure if I want to partake in it having been forwarded this YouTube video that reminds me how much I hated it (nope, I'm not one of those asshats in the audience).



My version: