APRIL 1st to 10th 2006
The reputation of Body Shop is starting to suffer as a result of its sale to French cosmetics giant L'Oreal. Animal rights campaigners called for a boycott of the cosmetics chain after Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick agreed to sell the company to the French firm for £652.3 million.
"The unsavory aspects of canned hunting in South Africa were first revealed in 'The Cooke Report,' a 1997 British documentary, which showed drugged lions being shot by foreign hunters from the backs of vehicles. The public, both in and outside South Africa, responded with outrage, but in the nine years since then, no national policy on game hunting has been put into effect to stop the practice."
BTW Canned Hunting is practiced in the U.S.A. also.
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Did you know trophy hunters can write off their canned hunts and big game safaris at taxpayers' expense? As reported in a front-page expose in The Washington Post, wealthy hunters have been killing a few "extra" animals, donating the trophies to pseudo-museums, inflating the value of these trophies and then taking a huge tax deduction for their "charitable" contribution (to "museums" that are sometimes in someone's basement or even abandoned railroad cars). The scam is so blatant it's simply shocking; tax deductions are engineered by questionable trophy appraisers who advertise with slogans like "Hunt For Free," "Hunting in a Tight Money Economy," and "7 Secrets of Tax Deductible Hunting.
Urge your U.S. senators and representative to crack down on "canned hunts" the abhorrent practice of confining tame, exotic animals in an enclosed space and shooting them at close range.
Source: DawnWatch ~ A animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets.
Doesn't the next update sound like commons sense? If you abuse animals, you should not be allowed to have them in your care in the future. Let me extend this more...if you abuse children, yours, someone elses, as a foster parent, as a priest, you should not be allowed children. This all seems logical and common sense to me.....
A national animal rights group wants authorities to see to it that an upstate woman has nothing to do with animals in the future, if she's convicted in an animal cruelty case. The organization -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- has sent a letter to prosecutors handling the case of Rosetta Irwin. The 49-year-old woman faces dozens of counts of animal cruelty after police seized horses, dogs, cats and a cow from her farm in the Chenango County town of Coventry, 20 miles northeast of Binghamton. A PETA representative wrote to prosecutors that Irwin could be an "animal hoarder" -- someone who obsessively accumulates animals. The group says -- if convicted -- Irwin should be banned for life from owning, caring for, or having custody of animals. In addition to the live animals seized last week, investigators said they found 14 dead animals on Irwin's rural property.
Police blamed Taliban militants for the blast at the Salabagh School in Asadabad, alleging it was part of their campaign against government-sponsored education. But the school is close to a U.S.-led coalition base that has frequently come under attack........The past year has seen a surge in violence in Afghanistan, with militants from the Taliban, al-Qaida and other groups stepping up attacks on government-linked targets and U.S.-led coalition forces.
Under the Animal Welfare Act, the US Department of Agriculture is charged with guaranteeing the welfare of exotic animals in zoos and circuses.
Last December, the Bush administration revised several sections of the "Adjudicative Guidelines for Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified Information," the document used to determine who may be granted security clearance. The guidelines are meant to gauge candidates' "reliability, trustworthiness and ability to protect classified information, as well as their vulnerability to pressure or coercion by foreign interests." Besides addressing "Drug Involvement" and "Financial Considerations," the guidelines also include a section on "Guideline D: Sexual Behavior," cited because, according to the document, "Sexual behavior that involves a criminal offense, indicates a personality or emotional disorder, reflects lack of judgment or discretion, or which may subject the individual to undue influence or coercion, exploitation, or duress can raise questions about an individual's reliability, trustworthiness and ability to protect classified information." The regulations established under the Clinton administration in 1997, however, stated explicitly that "Sexual orientation or preference may not be used as a basis for or a disqualifying factor in determining a person's eligibility for security clearance." This specific protection was inserted upon an executive order from President Clinton.
“Dear Mr. President,” which features the Indigo Girls, is one of the tracks — if an unlikely commercial single — from Moore’s fourth album, “I’m Not Dead” which will hit U.S. stores April 4, and a day earlier internationally. Alecia Moore’s ( a.k.a. Pink ) father is a Vietnam veteran and a staunch Republican. She is a devout Democrat. There was a point when their political differences almost ruined their relationship, until they decided not to talk about the war in Iraq, abortion, the failure to locate Osama bin Laden or any of President Bush’s speeches or initiatives.............For Moore, the most fulfilling part of recording “I’m Not Dead” was her father’s reaction to “Dear Mr. President.”“I saw goose bumps on his arms,” Moore recalls. “He said, ‘I feel like I’m back in the ’60s. Isn’t it great that you live in a country where you can say those things and they can be heard? Good for you for exercising the right that we fought for.” In Moore’s view, “Bush is the worst president the United States has ever had.” After hearing “Dear Mr. President,” she says her father told her, “I think you’re right.”
Album: I'm Not Dead (2006)
Song Name: Dear Mr. President ~ Featuring. The Indigo Girls
Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep
What do you feel when you look in the mirror
Are you proud
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why
Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
How can you say
No child is left behind
We're not dumb and we're not blind
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pay the road to hell
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
Let me tell you bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh
How do you sleep at night
How do you walk with your head held high
Dear Mr. President
You'd never take a walk with me
Would you
You know it's a watershed week for conservative idiocy when The Hammer resigns in disgrace and doesn't make it to the top slot on the list. George W. Bush has that dubious honor in the wake of his flat-out fraudulent claims of a desire to stop White House leaks.
Bush administration officials are considering plans for a massive bombing campaign in Iran
Senior Bush administration officials are considering plans for a massive bombing campaign in Iran to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons, according to several recent accounts, including two this weekend by the Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh. Current U.S. plans also call for the use of nuclear weapons to destroy suspected underground weapons facilities, which would mark the first use of such weapons in 61 years. Former intelligence officials quoted by Hersh describe the planning as "enormous," "hectic" and "operational," though U.S. officials sought yesterday to play down the activities as "normal defense and intelligence planning." The truth is, there is no good military solution to the Iranian nuclear impasse. And while there are military options, each carries with it grave risks that threaten to undermine U.S. national security interests at home and abroad while actually speeding up Iran's development of nuclear weapons.
The 17-year-old Christian Coalition is now is “more than $2 million in debt
The 17-year-old Christian Coalition is now is “more than $2 million in debt, beset by creditors’ lawsuits and struggling to hold on to some of its state chapters.” Meanwhile, close ties to Abramoff continue to dog the group’s former leader, Ralph Reed.
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Morally Bankrupt Religions
Recently, in the same week a group of lay Catholics for reform called for top bishops to step down in light of sexual misconduct, and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops rejected a request from 55 House Democrats for room to disagree on the issue of abortion.
On the surface, these two stories may seem connected only inasmuch as they might highlight the oddity that a body of synods connected to the sexual abuse of children still claim to have the moral authority to prescribe absolute ethical injunctions to their religious followers.
Beneath the surface, however, these stories clearly illustrate the hypocrisy of a Church that clings to anachronistic sexual prohibitions, which lead to both celibate priests using young boys as an outlet for their unhealthy sexual suppression and to young adults whose failed attempts at premarital abstinence and avoidance of contraception end in unplanned pregnancies.
These parallels reveal the fundamental failure of Christian ethics: that it attempts to determine absolute right and wrong from actions totally divorced from their social consequences. In short, Christian morality could work only in a world in which no one actually resides.
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's announcement that he will not seek reelection and will resign from Congress provides new evidence that the public is ready to sweep out corruption from Congress, said leaders of two activist organizations actively involved in drawing the links between DeLay-style corruption and the cost to American families.
And you thought the War on Christmas was over? Wrong. It’s not over, it’s just gotten worse. The War on Christmas has been expanded into an all-out War on Christians. At least, that’s the conclusion of a two-day conference recently held in Washington called: “The War on Christians and the Value Voters in 2006.”
Law enforcement officials say priests accused of sexual abuse constitute the largest group of unregistered sex offenders in the nation, and some are warning that they have no way to prevent more children from being abused.
Sexual orientation -- real or perceived -- was the second leading cause of bullying in schools, according to that online survey of 3,450 students between ages 13 and 18, which did not use a scientific sample. Lawmakers in state capitols across the country are drafting legislation targeting gay and lesbian youth in public schools. Gay rights leaders say the legislation results from the fact that young people are expressing their sexual orientation at younger and younger ages. But gay rights opponents say some schools and lawmakers have gone too far and actually are encouraging homosexuality among young people. Two bitterly opposed bills working through California's Legislature are among the most far-reaching gay rights laws ever considered covering American youth. A Republican bill seeks to pull the debate in the other direction by curtailing discussions of homosexuality. In at least 18 other states, including Nebraska, Iowa, Kentucky and Wyoming, a host of bills have been proposed to expand or limit the rights of gay and lesbian students.
Here's a question most farmers would never think would need to be answered, much less asked: Is it morally right to do what they do? But that's just the question that livestock producers are going to face in coming years, says Wes Jamison, director of the Agricultural Stewardship Center at Dordt College in Sioux Center. "What is your moral rationale for doing what you do? Agriculture hasn't even begun to ask that question," Jamison told a recent gathering of industry officials set up by the Animal Agriculture Alliance. The public's attitudes toward animals and agriculture are changing, and farmers can't ignore what's happening, Jamison says. To conventional producers, confining animals for the entirety of their lives is the best way of producing the most meat at the least cost. But that's a tough sell to people who have no background in contemporary farming and whose chief experience with animals is with their own pets.
Thirsting for God
Expanses Divine my soul craves.
Confine me not in cages,
Of substance or of spirit.
I am love-sick --
I thirst, I thirst for God,
as a deer for water brooks.
Alas, who can describe my pain,
Who will be a violin to express the songs of my grief,
I am bound to the world,
All creatures, all people are my friends,
Many parts of my soul
Are intertwined with them,
But how can I share with them my Light?
~ By Rabbi Abrahahm Isaac Kook, 1865 - 1935
For years, parents have known that pets and children are a good combination. Now, research is demonstrating that children can benefit from animal companionship. Children with companion animals are more likely to have higher self-esteem. A US study of 394 university students revealed that those who had owned dogs or cats as childhood pets were more self-confident than those who did not. Pets are a wonderful stress buster for kids. One study revealed that children who had a dog present during their physical examinations had lower heart rates, reduced blood pressure and less behavioural distress than when the dog was not present.
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Pets provide their owners with unconditional love and companionship. Now there's evidence that owning a pet is also good for your health.
More than 50% of Canadian households own pets of some kind. Dogs, cats, birds and other companion animals are living in more than five million homes. For their owners, these animals are more than pets-they are part of the family.
Medical studies on the human-animal bond reveal that pet owners are more likely to have reduced stress levels, cholesterol levels and blood pressure. They also experience fewer heart attacks than people without pets.
Many women believe their pets are more sensitive than their spouse or children.
Here is the "gist" of what Harry Taylor said;
Harry Taylor: You never stop talking about freedom, and I appreciate that. But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me from breathing clean air and drinking clean water and eating safe food. If I were a woman, you’d like to restrict my opportunity to make a choice and decision about whether I can abort a pregnancy on my own behalf. You are...
The President: I’m not your favorite guy. Go ahead. (Laughter and applause.) Go on, what’s your question?
Harry Taylor: Okay, I don’t have a question. What I wanted to say to you is that I — in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more frightened by my leadership in Washington, including the presidency, by the Senate, and...
Audience members: Booo!
The President: No, wait a sec — let him speak.
Harry Taylor: And I would hope — I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration, and I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself inside yourself. And I also want to say I really appreciate the courtesy of allowing me to speak what I’m saying to you right now. That is part of what this country is about.
The President: It is, yes. (Applause.)
Harry Taylor: And I know that this doesn’t come welcome to most of the people in this room, but I do appreciate that.
The President: Appreciate –
Harry Taylor: I don’t have a question, but I just wanted to make that comment to you.
William Wehrum, President Bush’s nominee to head the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), has earned a reputation in Washington as “the behind-the-scenes architect” of some of the Bush administration’s most controversial initiatives.
Next Monday, ( April 17th ) some 200 gay families are planning to attend the annual White House Easter Egg Roll to showcase themselves to the nation and President George W. Bush. But some religious conservatives say the families are "crashing" the public event and exploiting children for political ends.
Pension Cuts Effect Everyone, Except Some CEOs
While the average worker is facing pension and wage cuts, "the five best-compensated CEOs will bring in an average of $5.5 million a year from their pensions." The AFL-CIO looks at the skyrocketing pay of CEOs.
Large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane will be released into the atmosphere in the near future, according to a Dutch scientist speaking today at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna. He said global warming could lead to melting of the arctic tundras, setting free large volumes of methane, which would in its turn increase global warming. Other scientists said glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate and the oceans are turning acidic
Citing evidence of harm to dairy cows and questions about human health impacts, Food & Water Watch today launched a campaign to ask Starbucks to stop buying milk made with recombinant bovine growth hormone, commonly called rBGH. In urging the Seattle-based coffee leader to “do the right thing,” the group will encourage consumers to ask Starbucks to make their favorite coffee drinks with rBGH-free milk.
"Over the past decade, US milk production has changed, threatening the health of both dairy cows and humans. That’s because on factory farms, forcing the most possible milk from cows has become the objective. While the average dairy cow produced almost 5,300 pounds of milk a year in 1950, today, a typical cow produces more than 18,000 pounds." ~ More information on rBGH
This Campaign is a proactive agenda to curb the flow of illegal guns and boot the NRA's cronies out of office who block our lifesaving solutions. Illegal guns don't fall from the sky into the hands of criminals and gang members; they come from corrupt and irresponsible gun dealers whose negligent business practices arm criminals, juveniles, and other people who shouldn't have access to firearms.
We have a President who likes to break things. He has broken the federal budget, running up $3 trillion in new debt. He has broken the Geneva Conventions, giving the green light to torture. He has repeatedly broken promises – and broken faith – with the American people. And now, worst of all, he has broken the law. In brazen violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), he ordered the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. And, despite getting caught red-handed, he refuses to stop.
Bush's Part D disaster has become such a costly and confusing mess that politicians who fail to support fixing the program are putting their political futures on the line. Help us find out where your Representative and Senators stand. Ask your lawmakers a straightforward question: Will you fight to fix President Bush's Part D disaster. See if your members of Congress are working for you or for the pharmaceutical and insurance special interests. Ask them if they will fight to replace President Bush's Part D prescription drug disaster with a simple plan that works first and foremost for America's seniors, disabled and taxpayers.
Lindane should have been banned in the U.S. years ago. Fifty-two other countries have banned this 1950s-era insecticide, and it will soon be added to the list of chemicals targeted for a global ban under the international POPs Treaty, because it is a "persistent organic pollutant" known to persist in the environment, build up in our bodies and travel the globe. The health effects of lindane are well understood - as a neurotoxin, it can damage the nervous system and undermine the immune system. Scientists believe it can also cause cancer and disrupt the human hormone system, among other effects. Somehow lindane has slipped through the regulatory cracks in the U.S., and it is still used today to coat the seeds of wheat, corn and several other crops, as well as in shampoos and lotions to control lice and scabies.
David Corn | The CIA leak scandal has revealed the Bush crew's dishonesty and hypocrisy. But don't expect the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald or Bush to ever explain what really happened.
Despite the image conveyed by such a message, hens who were laying "Animal Care Certified" eggs were still subjected to abuses so terrible, they would be illegal if forced on dogs or cats. In 2003, COK filed legal petitions with federal agencies and the Better Business Bureau, alleging that these producers were engaged in misleading advertising. But this was just the beginning of COK's campaign. Over the next two years, COK conducted investigations inside so-called "Animal Care Certified" egg farms, argued its case two times before the Better Business Bureau, lobbied federal agencies, produced damning media exposés, conducted consumer polls and public outreach, and even filed a lawsuit. The hard work paid off not only with nationwide media coverage of the campaign, but on September 30, 2005, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced deceptive "Animal Care Certified" logo will no longer be stamped on egg cartons nationwide as soon as March 31, 2006!
Lend your voice to the animals buy pledging to not buy eggs from caged hens.
While many of us picture an idyllic Old MacDonald's farm when we think about where our eggs come from, nothing could be further from the truth. Virtually all eggs produced in the United States come from industrialized facilities housing hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of laying hens in overcrowded conditions.
Telecommunications companies like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress for the right to control where you go on the Internet, how fast you get there, and how much you pay for the service. If successful in Congress, these companies would open the door to violate what techies call net neutrality
As consumer demand for high-tech services grows, billions of dollars are at stake for telecommunications companies. Much of the battle is being waged in the halls of Congress right now, where our representatives are considering an overhaul of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.......One of the underhanded tactics increasingly being used by telecom companies is "Astroturf lobbying" -- creating front groups that try to mimic true grassroots, but that are all about corporate money, not citizen power.
The Oil Royalty Rip-Off
Even as they wallow in record oil prices, the oil companies' top executives are trying to swindle the federal taxpayer for billions more in handouts. The companies' latest gambit is to squirm out of paying royalties for the privilege of drilling for oil and gas in publicly owned offshore waters. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the companies' latest efforts could add as much as $80 billion over the next 25 years to the oil barons' enormous profits.
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Yummy, whats for dinner, the other white meat....pork....
An undercover investigation by Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) has revealed that hundreds of animals, some injured or sick, are crammed into barns without daylight. Dead animals are left to rot on the ground. The investigation into Polish pig farms owned by Smithfields Food, one of the world's largest pork suppliers, also found that powerful cocktails of drugs are administered to pigs reared in intensive factory-style conditions. Many of these chemicals include controversial antibiotics banned as growth promoters in other countries.
Here is an idiot.....and another reason why exotic pets should not be sold and bought....even some circuses are being stopped for using certain animals in their acts....
A man has been sentenced to three years' probation for possessing a two metre (7ft) alligator named Reggie, which he dumped in a lake in a park when it became too big to keep as a pet.
A handful of the world's largest food companies and commodity traders, including McDonald's in the UK, are driving illegal and rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest, according to a six-year investigation of the Brazilian soya bean industry.
Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.
Researchers who use animals in their work will have to report more details of the pain and suffering their experiments cause, under proposals by scientists on the government's most senior advisory group on vivisection.
Rather than step in it, or throw it on landfill sites, dog owners in San Francisco could soon be using their pooches' poo to generate energy for their homes, writes Dan Glaister.
Leaders of the state Democratic Party voted Saturday to urge Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush.
January 9: A new generation of nuclear power stations would increase five-fold the amount of a lethal and long-lasting form of highly radioactive nuclear waste stored in the UK, official figures show.
More than 40,000 people have signed the ACLU's Demand for the Truth petition, calling on Congress to investigate illegal government spying on Americans. Add your name and a comment now! Help us keep the pressure on Congress to hold the President accountable.
"Sampling finds arsenic in most chicken; A locally produced study of chicken found that most sold at supermarkets and all sold at fast-food restaurants contained arsenic."
"A study of chicken sold at supermarkets and fast-food counters found traces of arsenic in a majority of the samples, which the researchers said confirms that a decades-old farming practice of using arsenic in chicken feed leads to contaminated meat...... The group sampled 90 orders of fried chicken from most major fast-food restaurants and 151 packages of raw chicken from supermarkets in Minnesota and California. Nearly three-quarters of the chicken from conventional producers contained some arsenic, while a third of chickens from premium or organic producers contained arsenic. Every sample from fast-food restaurants had at least some arsenic."
For more information on chicken and other poultry visit United Poultry Concerns and PETA has a strong one page fact sheet on chicken farming and slaughter.
SOURCE: DawnWatch ~ A animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets.
I'm all for free speech, this is why I have a website that is named Corey Mondello, me, my name, so I am assured that I can say what I want, well unless Homestead starts censoring me....So I believe that the ding dongs that arent heard by a majortiy of American's and the world, should be hears. Especially right-winged crack-pots that usually claim to be Christian's...who to me....represent the very devil they speak about in their bible rather the Jesus, their supposed saviour.
BTW, I have nothing against Jesus, ( see my God, Theology, Religion, Gospel of Thomas or any number of webpages within this website that speak on the topic of religion, spirtuality, theology and god ) but don't use his name to teach hate, because he didn't !
Why isnt this man, Michael Smerconish in Iraq? I think I'll ask him. If I get a reply, I'll be sure to make it public.
Substituting for host Bill O'Reilly on The Radio Factor, Michael Smerconish repeatedly discussed "the sissification of America," claiming that political correctness has made the United States "a nation of sissies.".....He has also claimed that educating women means that "they're not going to be around to instill these lessons in their kids."
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I read about your statements about "limp-wristed-sissies" when discussing the current war. I was wondering why you weren't in Iraq fighting with our troops?
Is this an indication that you may be one of the "limp-wristed-sissies"?
If you want to make changes, go fight the war in Iraq and show the rest of us how to do it.
Corey Mondello
Boston, Massachusetts
Footage obtained by the Herald from last year's Easter Show shows acts described as "totally illegal" by the show management going on under the eyes of crowds. A stockman carrying an electric cattle prod partly concealed in a bag is shown administering a shock to a horse, presumably to make it buck. Together with the death of a prize bull at last year's show, the images above sit uneasily at a family event. Reports of cruelty and animal deaths have led to corporate sponsors withdrawing from rodeos. A firm that would speak only on condition of anonymity said animal rights' concerns had been a large factor in withdrawing support. Telstra, once a backer of rodeos, stopped sponsoring them in 2002.......The show's own publicity says rodeo is "the most dangerous and extreme sport on Earth".
The circus is in town, bringing with it the many wild animals kept in intense confinement and forced to travel in poorly ventilated boxcars or trailers during all kinds of extreme weather conditions for up to 11 months a year. Laws protecting animals in traveling shows are inadequate and poorly enforced. The Animal Welfare Act establishes only minimum guidelines, which are often ignored. In fact, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has had multiple citations and charges from the USDA for the treatment of its animals. Animals in circuses face training based on domination with bull-hooks and whips and can spend much of their lives in chains. Many elephants used by circuses who would normally stay with their mothers for many years are captured in the wild while very young and forcibly removed from their mothers. These animals are more than commodities and deserve to be in a natural environment. They exist for more than the frivolous purposes of "entertainment." Please consider visiting an animal sanctuary if you like to see live animals. Instead of a circus, go to a performance by Cirque du Soleil, which offers amazing feats and all of the excitement of a circus, but not at the expense of other living creatures.
Pamela Anderson took her crusade against Canada's seal hunt to eTalk Daily, asking the prime minister to accept a U.S. firm's offer of $16 million to stop the annual cull.
If you are near or in Lexington Kentucky and want a your animal companion to get a picture with the Easer Bunny, here is a treat for you
Get a photo of your pet or child with the Easter bunny from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Mayfair Manor ( (859) 266-2126 ), 3300 Tates Creek Road. You'll take home a cute keepsake, and proceeds will go to the Bluegrass Animal Welfare League. Fees are $6 for one picture, $10 for two.
The Crisis Affects Everyone
Quality health care that once seemed reliable is quickly being priced out of reach for millions of hardworking, taxpaying Americans. The scope of the health care crisis is reaching record proportions and touches the lives of Americans from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, income, education, employment, or age.
More than 74 million Americans were uninsured for all or part of 2001-2002 -- that’s nearly one-third of all Americans under age 65. Because the cost of health care keeps rising out of control, being uninsured can happen to any of us. And when it does happen, it means our families are more likley to either forego needed medical care, or experience severe financial hardship trying to afford it.
Here are the Facts:
45,800,000 - The number of uninsured in America in 2004.
8.5 million - The number of children in America who have no health care.
1 minute - The amount of time it takes for nearly 3 people to lose their health insurance in the U.S.
Another example of Christan Right-Wing Wackos showing their true cruel colors while they claim to love Jesus.
At the very beginning of the video, there is a tall white haired man, wearing a white t-shirt with "Delay" printed in blue on the back, with his back to the camera, he is shown quickly pulling down a had of Marsha Rovai's head, then pushing it into her and pushing her back. She is facing the camera, and the hat is light blue and seems to have pins all over it.
We were able to find footage of a portion of the incident between Richmond resident Marsha Rovai and a DeLay supporter at Nick's press conference yesterday. Channel 2 News showed footage on their 4 pm newscast of a DeLay supporter grabbing Ms. Rovai's hat and jerking it down over her face. Yesterday, we called on Tom DeLay to do the right thing, to resign so a May 13th special election can be held to fill his seat. Instead, DeLay's campaign organized a group of goons to show up and physically intimidate our supporters. These negative bullying tactics employed by the apparently not defunct DeLay campaign were disturbing-particularly their willingness to push and shove women who were attending the event. BUT there is a positive side to yesterday's events.
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One elderly Democratic woman was slightly injured when she was assaulted by a DeLay protester. The male DeLay supporter first hit her in the face with a sign and then grabbed her hat and tried to pull it down over her eyes. Think about this: Your Congressman asked his supporters to go out and assault old women. Okay, "wreck" them. But, that's all right because one of the Democrats shoved the DeLay protestor away from the elderly woman. We ain't doing non-violent protests when it comes to protecting our elderly.
Here is quote from the email sent out to supported of Delay to crash Nick Lampson's supporters:
"We would meet tomorrow morning at 9:45 am on the first floor of the parking garage attached to the Marriott. Please get folks to call our campaign office 281.343.1333 and let us know they can do it – or e-mail Leonard Cash (in the cc field above) so that we can get some head count. Let’s give Lampson a parting shot that wrecks his press conference."
Here a quote from Marsha Rovai;
“I can’t believe my Congressman, Tom DeLay, would organize this type of assault,” Rovai said. “I was assaulted by two different people. One of the men hit me and another shoved his sign into my face, and then when I pushed his sign away he violently pulled my hat down over my eyes and pushed me. I’m considering filing an assault charge. This is just very upsetting and I’m so disappointed in Tom Delay for organizing this attack.” SOURCE: Brazos River.com
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"Tempers flared as Lampson supporters tried to quiet the protesters. Arguments broke out, some minor pushing and shoving ensued and at least one woman was grazed in the head by a sign wielded by a DeLay supporter. Marsha Rovai, 70, of Richmond, said one of the protesters hit her and another man shoved a sign in her face. She said that when she pushed the sign away, the man pulled her hat down over her face."
"The course the bishops have charted threatens the very essence of our Christian mission.
For the sake of the poor we serve, we pray they…reconsider."
~ Joint statement from seven Catholic Charities board members who resigned March 1 2006, after Massachusetts bishops demanded an exemption from state law so they could discriminate against gay adoptive parents SOURCE: Advocate.com
Tom DeLay's resignation may seem like a dream come true for progressives, but our national ethics nightmare is far from over. A bombshell has just emerged from the investigation of Scooter Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice that President Bush himself may have authorized the leak of classified information to discredit critics of his rush to war. He's repeatedly said he wants to get to the bottom of this matter, and that he would fire anyone found to have leaked classified information. SOURCE: Act For Change
Leaker-In-Chief
Yesterday, a court filing disclosed that President Bush specifically authorized Vice President Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby to disclose classified information in an effort to discredit Joseph Wilson, a former CIA adviser whose criticisms undermined the administration's case for war. According to the 39-page document submitted by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald on late Wednesday night, Libby testified that Cheney "advised him that the President had authorized [Libby] to disclose relevant portions" of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (N.I.E.), the key CIA document that the administration used to persuade Congress and the American public into war. The court filing "for the first time places Bush and Vice President Cheney at the heart of what Libby testified was an exceptional and deliberate leak of material designed to buttress the administration's claim that Iraq was trying to obtain nuclear weapons." While the document does not address the issue of whether Bush was personally involved in specifically leaking Valerie Plame's identity, it is clear from the timing of the leak authorization by President Bush that he was personally involved in the administration-wide effort to smear Joseph Wilson by any means necessary. SOURCE: American Progress Action Fund
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales & Wiretapping without a Warrant
In House testimony yesterday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "left open the possibility" that calls occurring "solely within the United States" could be wiretapped without a warrant -- "a move that would dramatically expand the reach of a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program." SOURCE: American Progress Action Fund
United States Withdraws Support from U.N. Human Rights Council
In 1946, under the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt, the United States led the way in creating the first U.N. human rights commission. How things have changed. The United States announced yesterday "that it would not be a candidate for the new United Nations Human Rights Council, which was approved last month by the General Assembly with Washington nearly alone in opposition." (Re
