Day: July 23, 2009

What Is This “Birther” BS?

A Daily Agitation

Okay dipsticks….enough is more than enough!

I cannot believe the BS flying around about the citizenship of Obama…..I have a page entitled Rational Ignorance Effect, but these morons take the word “stupid” to new heights.  I understand the crazies on the right that have this lack of knowledge and want to believe the BS, but we now have people like The Rush, Liz Cheney, CNN’s Lou Dobbs and now we have 9 Congress people that have jumped on this bandwagon.  Why?

The more this plays the more it is looking like the GOP is playing and feeding these whackos for their own advancement.  I understand the old white guy from Alabama, Sen. Shelby, he probably still living in the pre-civil rights days.

Obama’s birth certificate has been published in many places….but it looks like that the people are most upset because of the two lines that state mother–Caucasian and father African…they can justify this any way they choose…but it is still the fact that Obama is an African-American that has them the most upset.

John McCain was born in Panama and that is no question of his citizenship …but he is white…what do I mean by that?  Would these same questions be asked of Clinton or Reagan or Bush under similar circumstances?  Of course, they would not be…why?  The are WHITE!

All this uproar is nothing more than an ugly political game been used by the Extreme Right to divide the people and feed the last remnants of racism….you have noticed that most of the people that are questioning Obama on this are old and mostly white…..how obvious must it get?

2009 Anal-Ocity

When will the right wing whackos give this crap a rest?  I mean rthere are people that state the most anal BS around and then there are those that pretend to be the voice of people that cannot help themselves.

When talking about whether Obama is a citizen or not he said in response to a right wing dipstick:

Lou Dobbs had David from Freeport, N.Y., on the line, the caller musing darkly about President Obama “rushing all these programs through by whatever means,” knowing he will soon be exposed as a fake, a fraud, a . . . Kenyan.

At that point, a scrupulous radio host had three options: (A) hit the kill button (B) laugh and hit the kill button or (C) offer some push-back against the fantastical notion that Barack Obama was born on foreign soil and thus serves — illegally — as the Oval Office’s first resident alien.

Instead, Dobbs chose the maximum complicity-minimum integrity route, or (D): “Certainly your view can’t be discounted,” the host said.

Hopefully CNN will do the right thing and put this a/hole on the carpet for being a moron.  He is not doing the public a favor he is feeding the extreme right all for the ratings game.

PETA Goes To The Circus

I have been one of PETA’s harshest critics in the past.  I have made fun of them for their Sea Kittens, the KKK outfits, and so on….but I will give props where props are due….and PETA deserves a huge thum up for their undercover work at the circus.

From an article on circus.com:

Horses Beaten and Whipped
Horses are one of the most commonly used animals in circuses, but they receive the least protection, as they are not covered by the federal Animal Welfare Act.

Hundley and Tom reported severe alleged abuse of horses, including the following:

  • Horses are grabbed by the throat and shoved, jabbed with pitchforks, and given “lip twists,” a sadistic way to inflict pain on one of the most sensitive areas of a horse’s body.
  • Most of Ringling’s horses are head-shy from being punched in the face so many times. If you try to pet them, they jerk their heads away because they fear being hit.
  • A handler allegedly tethered a horse named Sonny and whipped the horse with the metal snap of the lead for 10 minutes. The horse was later found to have a broken tooth.
  • A miniature horse got loose and was repeatedly punched on the back and sides when he was recaptured.
  • Sacha Houcke allegedly slugged a shrieking miniature horse named Gunther in the face twice with such force that it would have knocked down a full-grown person. The sound of his fist, which could be heard 20 feet away, knocked the horse senseless.
  • A horse named Mizean had cuts across his sides and back from being viciously whipped.

Elephants Live in Fear of Beatings
Both Hundley and Tom worked on the animal crew and tell PETA that they witnessed a violent beating of an elephant that lasted at least 30 minutes when Ringling had a layover at the fairgrounds in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When an elephant refused a command to lie down, Ringling’s head elephant trainer, Sacha Houcke, allegedly beat the elephant with a bullhook, hooking her behind the ear, on the leg, and on the back. At one point, he reportedly inserted the hook inside the elephant’s ear canal and pulled on the handle using both hands and the full force of his body weight. The elephant cried out in agony and was left bleeding profusely from severe wounds.

The following were among the whistleblowers’ declarations to PETA:

  • Elephants are so terrified of the trainers that they begin urinating, defecating, and trumpeting in fear at the sound of their voices.
  • Elephants are aggressively hooked on a daily basis, and handlers rub dirt into bloody bullhook wounds to conceal them from the public.
  • Elephants suffering from arthritis are kept on the road.
  • Elephants are only unchained when the public is around.
  • Some employees were outraged at Sacha Houcke’s recklessness when he brought Luna and another elephant perilously close to a PETA staffer and assaulted him in Oklahoma City. Luna is extremely dangerous and unpredictable. She has attacked handlers and frequently shows aggression toward people, and employees are regularly warned not to go near her.
  • The circus knows in advance when U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors are coming for what are supposed to be unannounced inspections.

PETA went undercover and vid taped many of the offenses these a/holes are commiting against these animals.  Personally, they should be shot for mistreating animals….beyond that I pray that these animals get justice and these sadistic assholes got prison.

I have a new found respect for PETA and the work they are doing.