Perhaps no situation causes me so much frustration as the treatment of animals as if they were akin to children. Often times better. Each of us has a friend or relation who claims without reservation that their dog or cat is no different in import to them as a child is to a parent. Each of us can probably point to pet owners who shower their possessions with better medical care - including prescriptions and operations, pathology and preventative care - than is defensible for a lower creature whose value is arguably more than a snail, but less than a goat.

It is common for me to come across stories wherein we are reminded of how morally bankrupt we have become. Few instances demonstrate this better than a couple which come immediately to mind.

A more helpful post here.

Let us mention here a situation near to me involving a wonderful friend, James Shore, whose life was cut short by a certain James Arthur Ray. Ray, convicted of 3 counts of negligent homicide, received 3 concurrent 2 year sentences in Arizona for his crimes.

In contrast,

"On December 10, Vick appeared in U.S. District Court in Richmond for sentencing. Judge Hudson said he was "convinced that it was not a momentary lack of judgment" on Vick's part, and that Vick was a "full partner" in the dog fighting ring, and he was sentenced to serve 23 months in federal prison."

For...

"being involved in the destruction of 6–8 dogs, by hanging or drowning. The "victimization and killing of pit bulls" was considered as aggravating circumstances that led prosecutors to exceed the federal sentencing guidelines for the charge."

But a far more disturbing pattern has emerged over the past couple decades in respect to Human Life and Society's valuation thereof.

I could cite a newborn human baby being drown at a high school dance.
I could cite a certain mother driving her car into the drink, getting out, and watching her 3 children drown.
I could cite all of the "missing" toddlers and related cases.

But why cite National stories when I could cite the happenings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?

Oddly, a new, heretofore, unknown cultural by-product has become a regional rage: namely, what has been euphemistically-coined "co-sleeping death". In a nutshell, it appears to be a sort of condition whereby inner-city Black Human Babies go to bed alive only to be smothered by the mother or aunt, father or sibling.

There have been some 10 of these "accidents" in Milwaukee, WI, over the course of the 2011 calendar year. Oddly, no such occurrences were reported in 2011 for Madison, WI or Green Bay, WI. Or, for that matter, anywhere else in WI. My search was not exhaustive. But, at least anecdotal-ly speaking, this trend seems to be isolated to inner-city Black Milwaukeean Families.

So, what gives?

The death is at least the 10th this year of a baby who was either co-sleeping with someone or who was in an unsafe sleeping environment. The girl's mother, who is 22 and unemployed, has two other children who live with their father.

No worries... the City of Milwaukee is on it!

Let me take you to November the 9th of this year,

Minutes before city officials unveiled a new safe-sleep advertising campaign Wednesday, the medical examiner's office announced that a 7-week-old baby was found dead on Milwaukee's south side after co-sleeping with his or her mother.

The best part of this campaign is that it speaks directly to the highest risk families, doesn't kowtow to Political Correctness by say showing a White Baby in its ads, even though there is zero evidence this trend has been picked up by the milk toast denizens of this city everyone in Milwaukee feels much better now knowing that:

1) Milwaukee is all over this!
2) Some Ad Agency is employing a couple more White Agency Rookies to get the message out!

Granted, babies are kind of boring. Especially expendable are Black inner-city babies. An Owl stolen from its cage and let loose to fend for itself? Now that's newsworthy shit. Something any compassionate Homosapien can sink his energy and emotion into. Thankfully he (Dakota the Owl) took a crap today and is now eating solid foods.

Let's put this spike in co-sleeping deaths in Milwaukee in a statistical perspective:

According to the CPSC, at least 515 deaths were linked to infants and toddlers under 2 years of age sleeping in adult beds from January 1990 to December 1997:

121 of the deaths were attributed to a parent, caregiver, or sibling rolling on top of or against a baby while sleeping

WTF is happening in Milwaukee?

Really, really sick and twisted priorities. And what's worse? I am not sure there isn't a much more nefarious motive behind these snuffications. Head. Sand. Nothing to see here.

Manimals: I am talking to you. Viva Dakota! Olvide Los Sin Nombres!

DOUBLE-EFFECT WARNING: Enoch_Root (a White guy) is drawing attention to deaths of Black Babies in Milwaukee. And further, he is suggesting that statistically-speaking, all of these cannot be "accidents". Further, Enoch_Root is accused of butting in to the affairs of a certain minority community. Clearly, his not-so-subtle conjecture is that this is some sort of cultural phenomenon occurring in said minority community. This is clearly a racist piece. He has been denounced in advance.

a more helpful post, here

UPDATE: 1/3/2012 - Another Dead Black Baby.Where's the outrage?

"At approximately 9:47 a.m...the 22-year-old aunt came out to the living room to check on the children and noticed that [Gilmore] was lying supine next to the 10-year-old aunt and was unresponsive."

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In district after district, Cheeseheads are learning that not only have they been gouged but gouged mightily in this unholy alliance of Big Labor and Monopolistic business arrangements, but that the abuses are being revealed to be more significant than was touted by the Walker Administration and state legislators.

How we know this is the case is that for those districts that refused to extend Public School Teacher Union contracts before Walker's reforms became law, budget surpluses are now being realized. For those school districts that extended Union contracts before the new laws went into effect budget shortfalls. As a result, in those districts with new-found surpluses, property tax levies have either remained flat or been reduced. Of course, the opposite is true for those unfortunates living in districts whose boards shamefully chose the Unions over the taxpayers on behalf of whom we have been reminded they are to serve (ie. Milwaukee Public Schools district).

The extent of the grift perpetrated under the Democrats at the state level and their allies in the Teachers' Union is stunning.

To say nothing about overpaying, double-dipping (whereby a teacher retires and is rehired the next day and subsequently receives full pension, full benefits, and full salary all on the taxpayers' pocketbook), mandated cost of living adjustments, tenure (or the inability to weed out the awful teachers), the worst scam of all appears in the form of WEA Trust.

For years upon years, the Wisconsin Teachers Union has baked in a mandate for a good many districts to purchase Cadillac insurance plans from... wait for it... the Wisconsin Teachers Union. Being over-insured is one thing. Over-paying to over-insure teachers is another thing.

Yesterday, it was revealed that one district in Wisconsin (Oshkosh)

...could save about $774,000 this year and another $1.3 million next year by leaving its union-affiliated health insurance for a new provider".

The district requested proposals from providers in July after its labor unions gave the board full control over health insurance as part of a one-year collective bargaining agreement.

... Business director Bob Tess said[,]"We weren't just looking for the cheapest plan. It just so happens that the best plan was also the least expensive."

Read the whole thing Here

Makes one wonder aloud who will benefit most from Obamacare.

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Came across this blog post at CNNMoney, written by Staff Reporter Charles Riley .

There is some of what I was looking for in there, such as quotes, etc... but there was also this incredibly daft couple of sentences:

Some business leaders have cited an uncertain regulatory atmosphere as a reason for the slow pace of hiring. But there are plenty of examples of individual companies -- like Google -- that are hiring at a breakneck pace.

I'll go slowly for Mr. Riley.

The use of the word "[S]ome" indicates something other than "the vast majority of"... do you people live in a vacuum?

On the other hand, there are "plenty" examples (according to Mr. Riley) of companies, like G!!ooggL!E!!ElEVenTY, hiring. And not just hiring, but hiring at a "breakneck pace".

Sorry, Mr. Reporter Guy, but a pathetic shill is no way to go through life.

They have a term for people who suck appendages for money.

Here, let me google that for you.

Pathetic.

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My guess his "private investigators" is more likely an "online reputation management firm" - attempting to disinfect the intratubes.

It's coming. Money on it. For the record.

I say this, as a man who makes these sorts of... erm... substantial moral lapses in judgment... cannot be said to have any qualms - or abide anything so arbitrary as say the age of consent.

My thoughts now turn to his poor wife. WTF was this turd thinking?

I don't think this is going to end well for him.

I think this is where this unfortunate episode is heading.

CHEAP TRICK weighs in...

Next Position Please

Words and music by rick nielsen

People all over the world

They get up they get down

They get in they get out

They get pushed, they go back

Start all over again

Till they get to the end

I'm from a small town

Had a poor family

Mama was sick, papa worked the factory

I led a rich life

Never had to work hard

House in the country

Horses in my backyard

Next position please

Do i have to get down on my knees

Next position please

I'm in a hurry, so hurry please

Read between the lines

Learn a new message

Read the latest book

It's a new twist

Be the first one to have a new ideal

You'll never get bored with mirrors on the ceiling

Next position please

Do i have to get down on my knees

Next position please

I'm in a hurry, so hurry please

People all over the world

They get up they get down

They get in they get out

They get pushed, they go back

Start all over again

Till they get to the end

I wanna move up within the company

I can do better with an opportunity

Why don't they use me instead of abuse me?

I'm ten out of ten, not some whore in some movie

I wanna be the biggest gun in the world

I wanna see the tits on every girl

Next position please

You have to get down on your knees

Next position please

I'm in a hurry, so hurry please

(repeat to coda)

MORE CHEAP TRICK

He's a Whore

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TO: Honorable Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

My friend, Ed Peterson, received a check for $1,000 from the government for
not raising hogs. So, I want to go into the "not raising hogs" business next
year.

What I want to know is, in your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not
to raise hogs on, and what is the best breed of hogs not to raise? I want to
be sure that I approach this endeavor in keeping with all governmental
policies. I would prefer not to raise razorbacks, but if that is not a good
breed not to raise, then I will just as gladly not raise Yorkshires or
Durocs.

As I see it, the hardest part of this program will be in keeping an accurate
inventory of how many hogs I haven't raised.

My friend, Peterson, is very joyful about the future of the business. He has
been raising hogs for twenty years or so, and the best he ever made on them
was $422 in 1968, until this year when he got your check for $1000 for not
raising hogs.

If I get $1000 for not raising 50 hogs, will I get $2000 for not raising 100
hogs? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to
about 4000 hogs not raised, which will mean about $80,000 the first year.

Now another thing, these hogs I will not raise will not eat 100,000 bushels
of corn. I understand that you also pay farmers for not raising corn and
wheat. Will I qualify for payments for not raising wheat and corn not to
feed the 4000 hogs I am not going to raise?

Also, I am considering the "not milking cows" business, so send me any
information you have on that too.

In view of these circumstances, you understand that I will be totally
unemployed and plan to file for unemployment and food stamps.

P.S. Would you please notify me when you plan to distribute more free
cheese. The last batch had a little mold on it but it was still mighty good
eating.

You can get your very own from Dan for a $5 tip jar hit.

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Tavis the Twit

There's a lot of stupidity that flows from Lawrence O'Donnell, both his person and his television show.  But this particular episode has got to be right up near the height of lows.  Behold, as Tavis the race baiter tosses his pearls before all of us, well, you know :

"I said over a year ago that this was going to be, this presidential race, Lawrence, was going to be the ugliest, the nastiest, the most divisive, and the most racist in the history of this Republic"...

And so it will be as you say, Mr. Smiley; especially if professional griefers like yourself are playing the race card pre-emptively. I wonder how long until he gets his invitiation for a hard hitting Q&A from the ladies of "The View"?

Look, I get that Democrats resent guys like Trump pandering to the birthers; they're wringing their hands over what they see as the "otherization" of  O!. I would have to ask them though, why the secrecy? Forget about the birth certificate for the moment; why the secrecy regarding his academics, the deliberate lack of paper-trail from the Illinois senate, and the impenetrable "omerta" of all parties regarding the Chicago Annenberg challenge-specifically his close involvement with Billy "guilty as sin, and free as a bird" Ayers? Why Tavis, is it racist to insist that this President make such records open and available to the public, as every President of the modern era has had to; why the special set of rules?  If there's nothing to hide, well, why not walk the "transparency" that Obama's always blathering on about?  Release the records, Mr. President.

The race-card-playing is starting early because O! is struggling, things aren't going his way with regards to the economy as well as domestic and foreign policy. Simply put, folks are having serious reservations about giving Obama a second term, so expect the race-hustlers like Smiley to chalk it all up to racism; going to the well of race-guilt one more time in order to shore up some of the mushy-middlers who can be convinced that their "unconscious racism" is really why they're unhappy with the President.  I mean, surely there's no policy-based grounds for opposition, amIright?

No Tavis, 2012 will not be the most racist election, EVAR!, unless you consider the race-card-players such as yourself, the blatant tribal appeal of the identity politics playing Democrats, or, you know, the inconvenient truth that black Americans voted for Obama by a nearly 19 to 1 margin.

But I'm sure you'd tell me that none of these factors are racist whatsoever, and that I'm a horrible, horrible, race-traitor and racist h8ter for even pointing such things out.

If you can stomach it, watch the whole video-it's short-in order to fully get your righteous indignation on.

[UPDATE]: Well, it seems Trump's hammering, and the polls recently indicating a public uncertainty of Obama's origin have convinced the White House to release Obama's long form birth certificate. As I've mentioned, I never doubted his naissance, personally, but only thought the public had a right to see all of the usual and customary life history paper trail of their President. It's a good start. Now let's see the rest of the documents, so we can know the rest of the story ...

Rocketman

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.

Holding for the MSM to report on this.... still holding... still...

What CiVIlity!!!!eleventy!!!!! sounds like... is this a Teachable Moment?

FLASHBACK! Nancy Pelosi's Concerns...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's eyes watered Thursday as she called for the rhetorical heat to be turned down across the country, and warned that such words can lead to violence -- a phenomenon she witnessed herself in San Francisco.

"I think we all have to take responsibility for our actions and our words. We are a free country and this balance between freedom and safety is one that we have to carefully balance," she said.

Holding for Huffington.... holding for... holding...

Fauxtelligentsia Speaksperson unavailable for comment.

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What to make of this:

1) the Dems seem to be operating in an alternate reality in which Democrats (so used to running rough shod over any conservative objections) actually won in November.

2) the Dems are still of the mind that if something is repeated enough it becomes reality (ie. "the people of Wisconsin did not know who they were electing or what he intended to do once elected")

3) the Dems like to say things like "we won" and "elections have consequences" and they particularly like to whine about being "disenfranchised"... but I say to you that they do not like this medicine themselves. And this is abundantly clear: they do not like it when their tantrums are interrupted by adults. They seem to think they are ENTITLED to inhibit the Will of the People as expressed at the voting booth... and that any attempt to carry out the Will of the People that does not square with their desires is somehow a travesty of Democracy.

These are sick, sick, and deluded people we are talking about here. Willing to lie... willing to cheat... willing to diminish my vote... my will be damned.

I put this here for posterity sake - in case anyone wants to pretend as if I am surprised by Walker's governance:

On November 4th of 2010 I posted what I expected Walker to do with the vote I cast for him:

1) ACCOMPLISHED – IN SPITE OF THE LEFT’S TANTRUMS – Kill off Governor Doyle’s “car-speed rail” project – which no one in Wisconsin wants – at least no one who isn’t feeding at the trough of the State.

2) IN PROGRESS – Photo ID – requiring a photo id be presented before casting a ballot – which 80% of the State Electorate (including Democrats, to their credit) favors and Doyle and his slime ball cronies killed time and again (one wonders precisely why).

3) Combined Reporting Repeal – this measure is a business killer… a job killer. And Scott will repeal it.

4) Concealed Carry – Wisconsin is one of only 2 states in the Union which still resists concealed carry, in spite of the stats demonstrating the positive benefits of “permitting” law-abiding citizens to do so (Illinois is the other).

5) Minimum Mark-Up Law – relating to gas prices… the State Govt actually mandates that gas stations mark-up their gas no less than X%.

6) ACCOMPLISHED – Hey Teachers’ Union – say hello to my little friend.

Today is a great day for Democracy. A great day for Wisconsinites. A great day for the Little Guy. A great day for Private Sector Taxpayers. A great day for the State of Wisconsin.

With their hiatus to Illinois (of all places) Democrats sought to undermine the Will of the People as expressed in November's election. Shame on you Gang of 14. Shame, shame, shame! A pox on your collective house. Alas, you cannot serve two masters - Especially if you abandon your legitimate master - and choose instead to take your marching orders from astroturf magnates out of DC.

Aha! A TEACHING MOMENT.... Elections have consequences. He WON. Get over it or STFU.

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Deflective Mirror

Context & National Dialog

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That is all.

Carry on.

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