Bush and Obama both by virtue of their office as Commander in Chief have ordered teen Muslims to be shot already.

It is possible for a man to be raped in several ways and it is also possible to harvest a mans sperm without his consent.

Men who are raped seldom report these crimes because of social stigma. Looking at some responses here it's easy to see why.

HA HA HA

Will this idiot's pathological devotion to opposing anything Obama does ever end? I doubt it.

He makes excuses for them and says haha that, "President Obama Ordered the Killing of Three Black Muslim Kids" like he is appalled by it. HA HA HA

Seriously...Rush...this is too funny for words.

From: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041409/content/01125110.guest.html

RUSH: You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you know what we learned about them? They were teenagers. The Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers who took a US merchant captain hostage for five days were inexperienced youths, the defense secretary, Roberts Gates, said yesterday, adding that the hijackers were between 17 and 19 years old. Now, just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered the shooting of black teenagers on the high seas. Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.

They were kids. The story is out, I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently the hijackers, these kids, the merchant marine organizers, Muslim kids, were upset, they wanted to just give the captain back and head home because they were running out of food, they were running out of fuel, they were surrounded by all these US Navy ships, big ships, and they just wanted out of there. That's the story, but then when one of them put a gun to the back of the captain, Mr. Phillips, then bam, bam, bam. There you have it, and three teenagers shot on the high seas at the order of President Obama. David "Rodham" Gergen was discussing the ramifications of this last night. Let's go to sound bite eight. We'll use number eight. He was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night. Cooper said, "Does Obama need to move forward in this --" by the way, the Somali merchant marine organizers have hijacked four more ships today, four more ships have been hijacked.

It was three earlier today. They've hijacked an additional one now for a total of four today. And, of course, we predicted this yesterday. While bestowing upon Obama all the brilliance and credit he deserved for a brilliant operation, we were very much concerned here that this kind of action against three young teenagers, black Muslim teenagers on the high seas could anger the pirates, merchant marine organizers even more and heighten and increase hijack activity. The left itself warned us of this in Iraq, they said all we're doing is creating more terrorists. So apparently we've created more hijackings on the high seas, in the Gulf of Aden by teenaged black Muslims, the merchant marine organizers. Here's David "Rodham" Gergen responding to Anderson Cooper's question. "Does he need to move forward in this situation? Does he need to resolve the question of these other pirates, their hideouts along the coast there in Somalia, or does he just kind of move on and hope it doesn't happen again?"

GERGEN: The natural temptation is to want to go in with military force and clean out those nests of pirates and just demolish them for even touching an American in the way they did, but there are some complications. Anderson, in his case this is complicated by his diplomatic outreach to Muslims. He's done a good job laying the groundwork, reaching out in Turkey as we saw a few days ago. If he over-responds to this, if he uses force against Muslims in what seems an excessive way, it could totally undercut his own efforts.
RUSH: It was a risk that he took, no question. But of course until David "Rodham" Gergen mentioned it last night, nowhere else in the Drive-Bys was the fact that they were Muslims mentioned. That's why the use of the word pirates continues. The defense secretary, Robert Gates, said there is no purely military solution to merchant marine organizing in the region. "As long as you've got this incredible number of poor people and the risks are relatively small there's really no way, in my view, to control it unless you get something on land that begins to change the equation for these kids." A Pentagon spokesman confirmed Gates' quotes which were first reported in the American Forces Press Service. There's nothing really we can do until we go in there and nation build is what he's saying. We gotta go in there and take care of the situation on land and build up their economy such that these kids don't feel the need to become merchant marine organizers. (interruption) What, Mr. Snerdley, you have a question here for your host? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. That was then, and this is now.

Mr. Snerdley is incredulous over the comments of the defense secretary that we can't stop piracy in a military way, there's no military solution. He pointed out that we have done it before, 200 years ago, and for the longest time there wasn't any piracy. Well, it's different now, Mr. Snerdley. There is no pure military solution to this, just like there's no military solution to terrorism. There's no military solution to anything is what you must take from this. The Obama administration, no military solution to anything, which is, of course, one of the foundational building blocks of liberalism, the military only screws things up. Al Sharpton, the head honcho of the National Action Network, on his syndicated radio show yesterday.

SHARPTON: The so-called pirates, they call themselves voluntary Coast Guard in Somalia, which may be more apt.

RUSH: Well, there you have it, from one of America's true leaders of the civil rights movement, the black community, they're not even pirates. They are voluntary coast guards. So in fact what we have here, according to the Reverend Sharpton, these young kids, black Muslim kids, three of which were ordered shot by President Obama on Sunday afternoon, they're just a voluntary Coast Guard trying to protect Somalia, they're just patrolling off the coast of Somalia as sort of a voluntary National Guard, so-called pirates, they're not really pirates, according to reverend Sharpton. He's confirming me, Mr. Snerdley. Don't look so incredulous. They're just community organizers and they have decided to organize out on the high seas as a means of protecting their beloved country, is all this is about.

A story from the Xinhua News Agency in Beijing, and there's a picture of it here: "Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, said China Radio International." I guess the ChiComs here are unaware of the Somali pirates' brilliant business plan, and the Chinese are very happy. "The Chinese merchant ships escorted by a China's fleet sailed on the Gulf of Aden when they met some suspected pirate ships. Thousands of dolphins suddenly leaped out of water between pirates and merchants when the pirate ships headed for the Chinese ships. The suspected pirates ships stopped and then turned away. The pirates could only lament their littleness before the vast number of dolphins." This is a China news story, as it's written. The pirates lament their littleness compared to the dolphins, but they apparently see no such littleness compared to the US Navy. It's true, got a picture here, unless it's been Photoshopped, lots and lots of dolphins just surfacing between the giant Chinese ship and the Somali merchant marine organizers. We always knew, we've always been told the dolphins are smarter than the rest of us, and apparently the dolphins in the Gulf of Aden are tired of all the piracy, or tired of something, and so they wanted to stop it. Mort Kondracke last night on Fox's Special Report with Bret Baier, had a discussion here about Obama and the Somali merchant marine organizers.

KONDRACKE: I think Obama did the right thing. I was in church with him on -- same church as -- on -- on Sunday, and he looked like very preoccupied and now it's -- it's -- it's apparent why because he was thinking what was going on in the -- in the -- off Somalia.

RUSH: I was in church with him on Sunday, he looked very preoccupied. He may have looked preoccupied in church on Sunday. Now we know why. He was worried about the order he had given to wipe out three teenagers on the high seas, black Muslim teenagers. I think the way he looked in church, Mort, probably confused that nobody was screaming about how evil America is. That's what he's used to hearing in church, and he obviously didn't hear that.
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RUSH: West Hempstead, New York. This is Carl. Thank you for waiting, sir. You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.

CALLER: Good to talk to you again, Rush. It's been years. Listen, as I understand it and as I'm reading here on the Internet, this ship that was attacked by the Somali pirates was carrying food aid to Somalia. Well, you know, how about treating Somalia, much of sub-Saharan Africa, like one would treat a strangler vine. If it becomes a problem, simply stop watering it.

RUSH: It is true that the ship was delivering food. It was on a mercy mission to some Muslims. You might be right it was to Somalia, and much of sub-Saharan Africa.

CALLER: Yeah, it was Kenya and Somalia.

RUSH: Kenya!

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Well... Kenya?

CALLER: Yeah, apparently. Yeah, that's what the news is reporting.

RUSH: And?

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: Kenya?

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: Kenya? You're serious about this?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Well, you know, Kenya, there's a bunch of Obama relatives that live there. He's got his brother, George Onyango who lives in the hut, and we learned last week, and I did not mention this. But we learned last week that he's got another half-brother who's been charged with sexual assault or something.

CALLER: In England.

RUSH: Can you imagine if a family member of George W. Bush had been charged with sexual assault.

CALLER: (laughing)

RUSH: Well, it was on a mercy mission, but the Somali merchant marine organizers are out for ransom money.

CALLER: Well, it appears to me to be anti-Darwinian to be feeding our enemy. Simply cut 'em off and let evolution take its course.

RUSH: No, you don't understand. You don't understand. I'm glad you called and said this to give me the opportunity to explain. We don't have enemies. Well, we have enemies, but we have enemies because of us. We have made them our enemies by being a superpower, by having such a big military, by having such a big economy, by having so much prosperity, by having so much freedom, by feeding the world, by outperforming every other civilization in the history of human existence. We are the problem. We have only been able to do this, you see, by stealing from the Somalis and stealing from the Kenyans. We have stolen all of the resources of the world to use ourselves in a selfish effort to make ourselves bigger than anybody else. And so it is guilt that forces us to send food and good wishes to our enemies like this. This is the way the left thinks. Remember, the United States is the problem in the world.

The US military is the problem in the world. The United States has created all this strife, and since we're ones... It's just like domestically, the rich are only rich because they've taken what's not theirs from the poor -- who never had anything in the first place, but still, they say that the poor is poor because everything that was theirs was taken from them. Same thing exists in the world. Kenya is poor and Somalia is poor because we, the United States, for over 200 years have raped the world of its resources. This is what liberals think. We're guilty! To be an American is to be guilty, and so of course we're going to send ships and the military around the world on Meals on Wheels programs. And we have to understand. That's why I'm stunned that President Obama did this. If he knew that it was just three black Muslim teenagers in that pirate ship that were gunned down... Again, you let George Bush's Navy gun down three black teenagers out there in the open seas, and I guarantee there would be hell to pay and war crimes trials.

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RUSH: I stand corrected. I'm using the guidance provided for me by Victor from Boca Raton, Florida, the Russian caller. If only President Obama had known that the three Somali community organizers are actually young black Muslim teenagers, I'm sure he wouldn't have given the order to shoot. That's the correct way to look at it: If only Obama had known. Okay. So it's no big deal.
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RUSH: I'm just sitting here reading an AP story out of Nairobi, which is in Kenya. I swear, reading this story you would think that the Somali merchant marine organizers actually have a spokesman. I don't know where AP gets this information about them. Let me give you an example: "US and French naval attacks on Somali pirates raised fears Monday for the safety of scores of foreign sailors still held hostage and sparked a debate on safeguarding shipping. The most likely outcome, though, is business as usual for," the merchant marine organizers. "Pirate leaders in Somalia have vowed to retaliate for the killing of three [young teenage] pirates by [the Obama administration] sharpshooters in the daring rescue of American captain Richard Phillips--" No, it doesn't really say that. I put it in there myself. "The International Maritime Bureau said it supported the US and French action, but also cautioned it may spark retaliation by pirates," which it has. Four more ships were hijacked today.

"Vilma de Guzman, the wife of Filipino seafarer Ruel de Guzman, held since Nov. 10, said, 'Those released are lucky, but what about those who remain captive?'" Now, without any quote, without any attribution to anybody in the pirate community, comes this next sentence. "The pirates' primary concerns, however, are economic, and they have no interest in escalating violence." Who wrote this piece? Tom Maliti of the Associated Press. I guess the Associated Press is the spokesman for the pirate community because this is a PR job for the pirates, but there is no quote. How does this guy know the pirates' primary concerns are economic and they have no interest in escalating violence? No, they just hijacked four more ships today. "Pirates armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades typically speed toward a ship in skiffs and use ropes and hooks to get aboard without shooting. Within days, a ransom of $1 million to $2 million is delivered, by sea or air, and the ship and crew are released." No big deal!

"No shot is fired. No one is harmed. Hostages have even told of being fed "sumptuously," with pirates billing the shipping companies for the food." (laughing) The pirates are billing the shipping companies! (laughing) There's gotta be a return address. If you are the pirates and you're billing the shipping companies for the food, the shipping companies have to have some address to send the money back, if they're stupid enough. This is absurd! It is an AP story that's a puff piece, PR piece press release for the pirates. It gets even better. "That, and the ransom, are paid by insurance companies." The food's paid for by the shipping fleet, the ransom's paid by insurance companies. Big deal. Nobody's hurt here. There's no harm. "Last year, premiums for passage all along the East African coast shot up --" Premiums! Premiums for passage. It's like the fee you pay to go through the Panama Canal, yes. "Premiums for passage all along the East African coast shot up in August and September when there was an increase in hijackings, then fell in January when bad weather saw little pirate activity."

President Obama vowed on Monday the resolve to halt the rise of piracy. "That could herald 'a new chapter in the piracy saga,' said Crispian Cuss of London's risk mitigation Olive Group. The pirates had 'a really good year last year, they took a lot of ships, made a lot of money and almost all hijackings were resolved peacefully.'" Had a great year. That's right, they have a great business model. This is being written about as though it's a tourist attraction. For those of you with giant yachts, go out there and watch all this, watch the hijackings, watch the brilliant business model in action, watch the captain and the crew be taken hostage, watch the ransom air dropped, watch the crew released. Imagine, because you won't see the crew eating sumptuous meals paid for by the shipping companies who are billed for this by the pirate community. I think the cruise lines ought to start selling cruises over to this area, Gulf of Aden, just to watch this. "Join us on a five-day hostage cruise, get fed sumptuous food, enjoy a high seas adventure. We, too, might be hijacked but don't worry, the cruise line will feed us well because the pirates will bill them for it. The pirates will get a ransom, and we'll watch this brilliant business model unfold."

Noel Choong of the piracy watchdog -- oh, did you know there was a piracy watchdog? I didn't until just now. The piracy watchdog International Maritime Bureau, another bureaucracy that does nothing but watch. And here's the quote from Noel Choong of the piracy watchdog International Maritime Bureau: "We do not approve or support that crews be armed. Once you start arming the crew, then the pirates will start shooting the crew, even an unarmed crew." No, no. If the crew is armed they can't be unarmed at the same time. Oh, well, let me start again. "Once you start arming the crew," said Noel Choong, "then the pirates will start shooting the crew, even an unarmed crew. Once that is done you will have more problems because the crew will start shooting at other (non-pirate) ships." So the International Maritime Bureau theorizes that if you arm the crew of the peaceful cargo ships trying to deliver their mercy mission food to starving Africans and others, if you arm the crew, they will start shooting other ships. Meanwhile, the pirates, all they want to do is hijack you, take you there, feed you well, bill the shipping company for it, get the ransom, and let you go.
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The voice of experience?

I cannot take credit for this. A fellow farker posted it on a thread there. It is right on though so I thought I would post it here for your consideration.

mactobain [TotalFark] Quote 2009-04-14 03:17:41 PM

Rick Perry is sweating his ass off right now.

Not only did he throw his name behind Guilliani who crashed and burned in the last Primary, he will be facing Kay Bailey Hutchison in HIS next primary who is more intelligent and overall more of a Republican that he will ever be. (History lesson: Perry started his career as a Democrat until Carl Rove talked him into switching sides)

Long story short, Perry will do everything in his power to show people how 'conservative' and 'Republican" he really is.

I expect his anti-Washington /anti-Obama Administration rants to intensify in the next year.

haha Here's what you don't get.

I am a republican but one who understands and values true conservative philosophy.

The religious nutjobs in the party who are no better and no less dangerous than the nutjobs who call for jihad have ruined the party.

The idiots who parade Joe the plumber types, who engage in the politics of fear, who would rather call names than negotiate sensible well reasoned solutions, those who glorify ignorance and denigrated others who are educated calling them elitist....I could go on...have ruined the party.

A hairdresser from the small Russian town of Meshchovsk has subdued a man who tried to rob her shop, and then raped him for three days in the utility room, Life.ru reports.

The incident occurred on Saturday, March 14. The working day was coming to an end at a small hairdressers, when a man armed with a gun rushed in and demanded the day’s earnings.

The frightened employees and customers agreed to fulfill his demand, but when the shop’s owner, 28-year-old Olga, was handing the money to the robber, she suddenly knocked him down on the floor and then tied him up with a hairdryer cord. The 32-year-old Viktor couldn’t have known that the woman was a yellow belt in karate.

Olga locked the unlucky robber in the utility room and told her colleagues that she was going to call the police – but didn’t do so. When everybody left home, she approached the man and ordered him to ‘take of his underpants’ threatening to hand him over to the police if he refuses to cooperate.

After that Olga raped her hostage for three long days. She chained Viktor to the radiator with pink furry handcuffs and fed him Viagra.

She eventually let the man go on Monday, March 16, saying: “Get out of my sight!”

Viktor went straight to hospital as his genitals were injured, and then to the police.

Olga was resentful when she was taken by the police.

“What a bastard,” the woman said about Viktor. “Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I’ve bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1.000 roubles (around $ 30) when he left.”

After that she wrote a notice to the police claiming the man tried to rob her shop.

Both Olga and Viktor may now face prison terms. The woman could be convicted of rape, while the man of robbery.

Two words...

Sarah Palin

He has been positioning himself for this for some time.

He is still the same racist right wing do as I say not as I do false idol of the right as he has always been.

Let's hope the republicans can come up with a true conservative to run next time.

Newt? The sheeple are buying in already as evidenced by this thread haha

You know I said this time and time again while the blind Bushies were marching along in lockstep.

You won't like this so much when these laws are used by the next administration.

Guess I was right eh?

So I guess texans find no conflict with the feds when they want money or when spending my tax dollars while asking for more and more financial and real support at the same time they call for secession?

Make up your minds.

Cue up "Should I stay or should I go?"

I think that is funny...a sort of state wide split personality.

Almost as funny as the extreme sensitivity of texans any time anyone criticizes any thing about the state.

I knew the minute I posted my first on this thread there would be a bunch nipping at my heals. Didn't take long for the predictable response. Heck, I have even received threatening personal messages for posting articles critical of Texas.

It's almost as predictable as Pavlov's dogs.

Once more...wanna go...please do.

Gonna repeat myself...because it fits.

Like I said...

Didn't you get the memo?

Right wingers who do **** like stock up on guns, bomb abortion clinics and federal buildings and advocate secession aren't terrorists they are patriots! Especially if they call themselves Christians...then they aren't just patriots they are also doing God's work!

Geez...some people just don't get it do they?

Those people are real Americans hahahah

Terrorists are liberal, foreign, have different colored skin, live on foreign soil or immigrate to the United States. They call God by a different name too don't forget that!

Again...didn't you get the memo?

Just goes to prove it.

Texans want it both ways.

This makes them hypocrites and well..I loath hypocrites.

Please...feel free to go.

I didn't see any alarm when the Bush administration had law enforcement spying on and infiltrating anti-war, environmental and justice groups.

Funny...it was swell then wasn't it.

Didn't you get the memo?

Right wingers who do **** like stock up on guns, bomb abortion clinics and federal buildings and advocate secession aren't terrorists they are patriots! Especially if they call themselves Christians...then they aren't just patriots they are also doing God's work!

Geez...some people just don't get it do they?

Those people are real Americans hahahah

Terrorists are liberal, foreign, have different colored skin, live on foreign soil or immigrate to the United States. They call God by a different name too don't forget that!

Again...didn't you get the memo?

I don't want to attack Texas...I think the Texan mind set is pretty cute.

I also don't want to support that mess. While they say don't mess with Texas out of one side of their mouth and ask for federal help out of the other.

Am I wrong to state the facts? That you happily suck up federal funds and ask for more on a regular basis...and that the state has a shameful record in education, environment, health care and justice?

You all want to extol the greatness of Texas while I just pointed out there is another side of that coin.

Seems like you Texans want it both ways. Oh, and you are all awfully damned sensitive about it too...something that never ceases to amuse me.

I have long supported the movement for Texas succession. Have at it!

Wow and to think...last September Texas was looking at $11.4 billion in damage from Ike, including $16 million in damage to Houston, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said. Devastation in Galveston is another $2 billion, that city's mayor said.

Just about a month ago in March that Texas was asking the fed's for help along the border with enforcement.

In April the feds paid 75% of the cost of a 700 acre fire when Gov. Rick Perry on Friday asked the federal government to issue an emergency declaration to provide assets and resources for 199 threatened counties.

Thus far, it appears that Texas will receive about $16 billion. The Comptroller’s analysis of the federal stimulus legislation is ongoing; for the very latest information, visit http://www.window.state.tx.us/finances/stimulus/.

Texas has it's hand in my pocket and depends heavily on the the feds while failing in all sorts of areas.

* Texas is #49 in verbal SAT scores in the nation (493) and #46 in average math SAT scores (502).
* Texas is #36 in the nation in high school graduation rates (68%).
* Texas is #33 in the nation in teacher salaries. Teacher salaries in Texas are not keeping pace with the national average. The gains realized from the last state-funded across-the-board pay raise authorized in 1999, which moved the ranking from 33 to as high as 26th in the nation, have disappeared over the last five years.
* Texas was the only state in the nation to cut average per pupil expenditures in fiscal year 2005, resulting in a ranking of #40 nationally; down from #25 in fiscal year 1999.
* Texas is #6 in the nation in student growth. The general student population in Texas public schools grew by 11.1% between school years 1999 and 2005, with the largest percent of growth seen among low income and minority children.
* Between school years 1999 and 2005, the number of central administrators employed by Texas public schools grew by 32.5%, overall staffing in public schools grew by 15.6%, while the number of teachers grew only 13.3%.

http://www.window.state.tx.us/comptrol/wwstand/wws0512ed/

Texas is a mess...a mess with it's hand in my pocket...while they engage in loud mouth don't mess with Texas stunts.

But don't dispair...Texas is close to number one in a few areas.

You all are number one in some real eye opening categories too.

Texas spewed 670 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2003, enough that Texas would rank seventh in the world if it were its own country, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Texas is number one in children without health insurance.

1st in Smog Days (Houston)
1st in poorest counties(3)
3rd in Hunger
5th in Highest Teen Birth Rate
45th in Mothers Receiving Pre-Natal Care
46th in Public Libraries and Branches
46th in High School Completion Rate
46th in Water Resources Protection
7th in Delivery of Social Services
48th in Literacy
8th in Per Capita Funding for Public Health
48 in Best Place to Raise Children
48th in Spending for Parks and Recreation
48th in Spending for the Arts
49th in Spending for the Environment
50th in Teachers' Salaries plus Benefits
Children's Rights Council
Only one accredited child-care center exists for every 2,637 children. A fourth of children still are not immunized by age 2. --Texas Freedom Network

Yep...don't mess with Texas? Gladly...

Willing2...that is just silly.

Commenting on a developing situation like that would have been silly for a number of reasons.

Why that's a death threat!

Yes...there are problems with some dog breeding...but this is craziness!

April 11, 2009


Activists with the power to ruin lives

From a report that Glenn Reynolds linked earlier, I read that Joe Biden bought a pedigreed German Shepherd puppy from a breeder. Not much of a story there, but what happened later illustrates something I consider a very serious (and possibly unsolvable) problem.

Because of an unstoppable movement of single-issue activist fanatics, the breeder has faced huge legal problems:

EAST COVENTRY -- It was a proud moment for Linda Brown when then-Vice President-elect Joe Biden selected her kennel to purchase his new German shepherd puppy.

That was in mid-December.

For Brown, that proud moment was short-lived.

After the story about the puppy sale ran in the newspapers and on TV newscasts, three dog wardens from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture showed up on Brown's doorstep for a kennel inspection.

And they showed up again and again for four visits over four months.

She said she has also received death threats from animal activists against her and Biden, which were reported to the Secret Service and the FBI.

This is all too typical, and you don't have to be Joe Biden to attract the ire of these activists. As liberal feminist blogger Jessica Valenti found out when she dared commit the politically incorrect crime of buying a pure bred dog.

What ordinary people tend to forget is that animal rights activists have increasingly been put in charge of animal law enforcement.

The bottom line is that they consider dog breeding an egregious moral offense, and they see dog breeders the way anti-abortion activists might see a late term abortion provider. Or the way a child advocacy activist would see someone who opened a NAMBLA chapter. If you doubt me, I suggest breeding and selling pure bred dogs. Never mind that the dog itself is the product of selective breeding by humans; the activists ultimately want to end pet ownership, and for them, going after breeders is only one step. Breeders, of course, are in a tiny minority, and are thus extremely vulnerable.

Note the way the horror story unfolded for the unfortunate breeder who thought it was an honor to sell a dog to the Second Family:

Following a story about Brown and Biden in the Daily Local News, readers posted 131 comments, some chiding Biden for having the Secret Service with him when he went puppy shopping and others complaining he did not get the dog from a shelter.

Brown was taken to task for selling pedigree dogs.

Brown said she has read the comments, even the one that said she was sued.

"I'd like to meet that person," Brown said, adding that she has not been sued.

Some people were outraged about the photograph of Biden holding a 5-week-old puppy, Brown said. But, the breeder points out, Biden only came to select a puppy on that visit, left it with its mother and returned three weeks later to take it home.

Naturally, PETA led the charge:

Brown was not only vilified in posted comments to newspapers but also on the Web site of People for the Ethical Treatment Animals, or PETA.

According to a Dec. 12 press release from the animal rights group, it aired its controversial TV commercials "Buy One, Get One Killed" in Biden's home state of Delaware after he bought his dog from Brown. The commercial blames euthanization of animals in shelters on people who purchase pets from breeders.

What the story fails to point out is that PETA is not only against dog breeding, but all pet ownership, and has a documented record of routinely euthanizing dogs rather than putting them up for adoption.

After the activists complained, enforcement teams were sent in, and naturally (thanks to legislation drafted by activists) they were able to find technical violations. They didn't hold up in court, but of course the damage was done:

Brown also was cited for record-keeping problems and warned about maintenance and sanitation shortfalls by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

"I was cited for a piece of kibble on the floor and five strands of dog hair. They took a picture of that, they walked around, snapped pictures and don't tell you why," said Brown, who disputes all the items where she was written up.

Brown's case was heard by District Justice James DeAngelo in South Coventry on March 31. She was found "not guilty" for each citation, the judge's office confirmed Wednesday.

Chris Ryder, press secretary for the Department of Agriculture, said Brown was inspected in December because of a complaint. He said it was department policy not to release the name of the person who complained.

Brown's kennel, Wolf Den, was inspected twice a year by the agency and routinely had satisfactory reports until December 2008 when it had seven unsatisfactory inspection results out of 26, according to the inspection records on the agency's Web site.

Ryder said the inspectors returned as a matter of follow-up to determine if the unsatisfactory matters had been taken care of. He said more than one inspector was brought in because Brown runs a large kennel.

Before going to court, Brown had to hire a lawyer. So far her legal fees are $4,000, she said.

"Never, never, never again," Brown said about selling a dog to anyone with a high profile.

I have nothing but sympathy for this woman, and for Joe Biden. If I were to breed Coco and sell her puppies, I would no more write about it in my blog than I would jump in shark infested waters with bloody meat strapped to my side. (I would be naturally hesitant to sell a puppy to a high profile celebrity, too.)

Like it or not, we live in twisted times in which selling pure bred puppies is considered a heinous moral offense. The bottom line is that if you breed dogs, you are vulnerable, as there are teams of well-organized, well-funded activists who regard you as morally akin to a child molester, and who can't wait to treat you that way.

It illustrates a larger problem, though. The majority of people don't seem to have any say in what goes on. Activists get their way and there is nothing democratic about it. Few people would ever decide to "stand up" to the activists, especially breeders, who have to keep a low profile, lest they find their dogs confiscated and killed, and having to face trumped-up charges.

As I discussed in a number of posts, a tiny minority of animal rights activists in Philadelphia decided that the elephants in the Philadelphia Zoo had to go. It made no difference what the zoo or the public wanted. The activists intimidated the zoo, and got their way.

No one stands up to them.

The problem is, while it's easy for me to advocate standing up to them (I attracted considerable ire for my elephant posts), in honesty I can't completely fault vulnerable people (like breeders, pet stores, or zoos) for not standing up to them. Putting yourself in their place, would you? Life is too short. How many people will stand up to single issue advocates with the power to ruin people's lives?

Still, I have some lingering questions. How did they get such power in a supposedly democratic society? Who gave it to them? Is there any way to take it away from them, or is it too late?

UPDATE: My thanks to Glenn Reynolds for linking this post, and a warm welcome to all. Your comments are appreciated, agree or disagree.

MORE: There are recent news reports about Barack Obama's choice of a pure bred Portuguese Water Dog as the White House dog. So far, both Obama and the dog's breeder seem to have escaped the treatment which befell Biden and the German Shepherd breeder.

Hmmm... I see that the dog was a gift from Ted Kennedy, who, while not the breeder, owns other Portuguese Water Dogs and seems to have acted as the middleman.

(Not surprising. Ted Kennedy would probably get a pass even if he were caught in flagrante delicto committing the actual crime of allowing two purebred dogs to mate!)

AND MORE: As details surface, the Obama Portuguese Water Dog story has intrigue written all over it:

The twists and turns of the Portuguese water dog's route to the White House make for the kind of intrigue that political junkies and the highly opinionated dog world delight in.

[...]

...conspiracy buffs might speculate that Bo was meant for the Obamas all along. Was his adoption engineered to look like a rescue--or at least blur the line to head off criticism that the Obamas had picked a purebred from a breeder?

It does appear that the dog was "laundered" for the Obamas, if that is the right word. The reason this has taken on the air of political intrigue is that daring to obtain a purbred dog has become a new morals offense.

posted by Eric on 04.11.09 at 12:08 PM





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Doing some net surfing I found a link to a book published in the 1970's I’m glad I’m a boy! I’m glad I’m a girl! by Whitney Darrow.

Sometimes I look around and think about the wonderful progress we have made as a society but other times I wonder how much things really have changed after all. Especially when I read these forums.

Incredible that it wasn't so long ago we taught kids stuff like this:

Boy's are pilots.
Girl's are stewardesses.

Boy's are Presidents.
Girl's are First Ladies.

Boy's are doctors.
Girl's are nurses.

Boy's are doctors.
Girl's are meter maids.

Boy's can eat.
Girl's can cook.

Boys build houses.
Girl's keep houses.

Boy's invent things.
Girl's use what boys invent.

Boy's fix things.
Girl's need things fixed.