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I have obtained the previously lost footage of the Romney Dog’s last interview. Hear his side! For washingtonspectator.org premiering today on Huffpo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/washington-spectator/video-mitt-romneys-dog-speaks_b_1291327.html
Here’s something I saw on a website today. It’s nice that they have a sense of humor.
For David Denby’s review in this week’s New Yorker. The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, where the chimps go ape over James Franco’s experimental work on Alzheimers and wind up trashing San Francisco like Tea Partiers in DC. Freida Pinto needs a minute to process this.
Scenes from Bingsop’s Fables, by Stanley Bing, published by Harper Collins, in which the character Bingsop lays down the laws of the business jungle. Too many illustrations by yours truly. For example:
The Miserable Miserly Mogul Gets Served
The Potentially Generous CEO and the Idiots Who Misjudged the Depths of His Largesse
When Worlds Collide
The Former CEO Who Would Be King
The Veep and the Creep
Politics Makes Smart Bedfellows
The President of Sales vs. The Lazy Sales Weasels
The Stupid Investor Gets Outsmarted…Again!
Publicity Hungry Wart Hogs
The Human Resources Guy Who Became Something of a Hipster
Out of China, an amazing story about an animal rescue. This from the Washington Post:
“BEIJING — The mutts were destined for the dinner table — all 520 of them crammed onto a truck hurtling down a Beijing highway toward awaiting restaurants in northeastern China. Then, fate intervened in the form of a passing driver, an animal lover who spotted the truck and angrily forced it off the road.From there, things began spiraling out of control. News of the confrontation hit the Chinese blogosphere, sending more than 200 animal activists flocking immediately to the highway. Traffic on the road slowed to a standstill. Dozens of police officers were called in. Animal activists, however, kept arriving with reinforcements, carrying water, dog food, even trained veterinarians for a siege that lasted 15 hours.”
The animal rights activists liberated the dogs. The suffering was profound, some were near death. Then complications: where to house these animals? How to get them medical care? The driver, losing his livestock and then livelihood (he says he will not be hired again). This is all powerful stuff. The result, seems to me, of a nation experiencing a rising consciousness. Middle class urbanites who own dogs and understand the profoundly deep connection with the uncanny canine cannot tolerate this abuse and are forcing the issue in Chinese society; confronting an old rural dietary commonality. Concern for animals signals a higher level of spiritual awareness. When one can care for a dog or a cat, one is more available to the smaller silences in life that need attention. So now China is looking at itself in a new way, and sometimes it’s through the eyes of its dogs, abused and sold for meat.
The nuisance of baby seals is once again upon us. These annoying pests are everywhere, around the northern part of Canada. And you thought that Global Warming would knock them off . . . well, that is working, but not fast enough! So that’s why the Canadian government is supporting this annual activity where these useless creatures will be decimated by the hundreds of thousands. How? With bludgeons among other handy high tech tools. So if you believe in protecting Canada from the baby seal infestation problem do not sign the petition below, put forth by tree-hugging, simpering, weak-kneed liberals no doubt. Real men kill baby seals.
HUMANE SOCIETY SEAL HUNT PETITION
PS: Ignore this letter from Rebecca Aldworth of the Humane Society International/ Canada:
It hurts to say these words: Hundreds of thousands of harp seal pups are in danger of slaughter here on the ice floes of Eastern Canada in just days.
It’s the largest slaughter of marine mammals on the planet, and the Canadian government — undeterred by seal pups drowning in their melting habitat — has sanctioned even more killing this year.
What can you do right now to help stop this madness? Join the 2011 boycott to save seals.
Why boycott Canadian seafood? Because it works. Canada’s commercial fishing industry hunts baby seals during the off-season, selling fur for a tiny fraction of the industry’s overall profit. Seafood — like snow crabs, cod, and cold water shrimp — make up the lion’s share of their revenue, and in the past 6 years that we’ve refused to support their cruelty, the industry’s bottom line has taken a nose dive.
In 2009, the European Union banned its trade in products of commercial seal slaughters, closing a primary market for Canada’s sealing industry. As shrinking global demand for seal skins have left the fishing industry with fewer incentives to go out on the ice and made a government buyout of sealing licenses more attractive, we’re truly on the verge of a breakthrough for seals.
The end is near — I can feel it. Join the 2011 boycott to save seals and be part of our historic campaign to end this brutal hunt at last.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Aldworth
Executive Director
Humane Society International/Canada
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