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Friday, October 31, 2003 ( 5:13 AM ) MB In March 2002, Ingrid Newkirk appeared on CNN's Crossfire and denied Tucker Carlson's accusation that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals crossed a line by targeting children. According to Newkirk, "... everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults [to] be responsible." PETA Protest Disrupts Middle School How about letting parents be responsible for what their kids eat? Or do they consider eleven-year-olds to be adults? Permalink ( 4:56 AM ) MB PETA out to rename town ...PETA has petitioned the town of Rodeo, Calif., to change its name because the word "rodeo" represents "egregious cruelty " to animals. PETA suggested adopting the name "Unity" instead, and pledged to donate $20,000 worth of veggie burgers if the town goes through with the change. As if that weren't enough, PETA also wants to change San Francisco's Hunters Point to "Gatherers Point." Oh, yum, veggie burgers. How could they reject that type of temptation? ...So if you've got a political soapbox, whether it's animal rights or anything else, make sure you're sensible about it. Don't throw out overblown, loony ideas like renaming a town. It's not going to accomplish anything except to make you look bad. Political correctness is not the way of the world. (Emphasis mine.) That logical comment brought to you by the student newspaper of the University of Southern California. (!!) Permalink ( 4:18 AM ) MB Boycott Hollywood has a new name and a new URL - Right Voices. They will still let us know about all the idiotic comments coming out of Hollywood. The change just reflects a broader scope for the site...hey, it's not like Hollywood is the only source for idiocy. Permalink ( 1:12 AM ) MB  Well, shatter-bones, you seem like a joker. Playing pranks is funny to you of course. You like to fool around with others and be, well, annoying. Haha. Egg-throwing and smashing windows on Halloween must be entertaining. If you're having fun, then good for you. Just don't take it too far or get caught. Happy Halloween, Mr./Ms. Funny Bones. What Halloween Figure Are You? (Fun Quiz! MANY RESULTS!) brought to you by Quizilla Permalink Thursday, October 30, 2003 ( 8:44 AM ) MB Wrenching Schiavo case compels us to make end-of-life decisions - now If there's a single compelling lesson to come from the legal battle between the husband and the parents of Terri Schiavo over whether the comatose Florida woman should be allowed to die, it is that everyone over the age of 18 should have a living will and a medical power of attorney. Living wills are the documents that many of us are more familiar with but they are not as important as an advance directive. A living will is only useful if you are terminally ill and states that a physician may withhold or withdraw treatment. It leaves all the decision making with the doctor. An advance directive appoints a specific person to make medical decisions for you if you are unable to do so yourself and exempts doctors from liability if they are following that person's instructions. My state, Kentucky, combines the two forms so whether you will need one document or two will depend on the local laws where you live. The Internet Legal Resource Guide has printable living wills. There are also forms to designate power of attorney. The American Medical Association has information about advance directives and a printable form. U.S. Living Will Registry has printable forms (pdf) and can electronically store advance directives online for access by health care providers. As long as you are filling out forms, consider filling out an organ donor card. You probably already have one on the back of your drivers license if you live in the U.S. Organ donor cards may also be found at Organdonor.gov. Permalink Wednesday, October 29, 2003 ( 8:11 AM ) MB AnimalRights.Net: Animal rights advocates regularly mislead the public and misrepresent the facts about the use of animals in our society. This web site provides a critical analysis of the animal rights movement and debunks many of their claims. One recent article, Fur Commission, USA On Survey of Animal Rights 2003 Participants reports on an article concerning a survey of animal rights activists. All of the participants thought that civil disobedience was both moral and effective. About 21% thought political assassination was moral, 17% thought it was effective. Read the article for the percentage of support show for their other forms of protest in between these two extemes. Permalink Monday, October 27, 2003 ( 11:58 AM ) MB I freely admit to being frequently confused as to why people do and say the things they do. One thing that I don't understand is the response of the Left everytime there is an attack on our service people in Iraq that results in death. I'm not saying that each death is not a terrible thing or that we shouldn't do everything possible to ensure the safety of our troops. What confuses me is the weight this is given versus that given to the number of people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed under Saddam Hussein. Is it just me or does this seem to imply an underlying bigotry? Another thing I wondered about recently was a picture on Belligerent Bunny Blog. Among the photos from a peace rally was one of Veterans for Peace with a sign that said "Support the Troops Bring them Home". No doubt they would all prefer to be home but I also think that staying and helping to complete the job we are doing there will be more satisfying than it would be to leave now. Permalink ( 8:33 AM ) MB Three states will have elections for governor in November. In Kentucky and Mississippi the Republican candidates are leading in the polls. (Both currently have Democrats in office.) In Louisiana, the polls show a virtual tie with a drop in support (from previous polls) for the Democrat candidate. From 1896 to the present, Kentucky has had six Republicans and twenty Democrats serving as governor. Louisiana has had two Republicans and twenty-two Democrats and Mississippi has had one Republican and twenty-four Democrats. Permalink Sunday, October 26, 2003 ( 7:42 PM ) MB Did you hear about the form letters that were sent as a "letter to the editor" to hundreds of newspapers? While the letters were the same, each had the return address of a person from each newspaper's readership area. Click the link and read this one...I bet it's not the one you're thinking about. (Hint: It has nothing to do with Iraq.) Permalink ( 11:36 AM ) MB Fletcher leads for governor ...FLETCHER IS trying to end 32 years of Democratic control of the governorship. He and the Republican Governors Association, which is running television commercials attacking Chandler, have succeeded in lowering Chandler's standing among voters — making it more difficult for him to catch up. Last week's poll found that voters' impression of Chandler was about evenly divided between favorable and unfavorable. A month ago, it was favorable by a ratio of 2 to 1. Chandler's best TV market was Evansville, Ind., where the association did not run attack ads until after the poll ended. As much as I would like to believe that this poll is accurate, that last line makes me question its validity. Did they limit their poling to Kentucky or did they also ask people in Indiana whom they would vote for in the Kentucky election? Permalink |
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