“Market encourages horse slaughtering, animal advocates say”

That’s the headline for this piece about horse rustling in S. Florida.

If there were a free market in horsemeat, this wouldn’t be happening. Old horses could be slaughtered, or young ones raised for meat. But because people in this country think that their cultural prejudices should be enshrined into law, that can’t happen. This is a disaster created by PETA, HSUS, and their ilk, and it’s time they were told to back off.

Bar patrons

Uncle Jimbo at Ace captions the pic of ‘Bama’s Beer Bull session. “Yeah, I’ve been to that bar.” Me too. But the egomaniac was all talk and no power.

Space-out on Obamacare abortion funding

A Blue Dog Democrat is still a Democrat:

The amendment said health care legislation moving through Congress may not impose requirements for coverage of abortion, except in limited cases. It was approved in the Energy and Commerce Committee after conservative Democrats joined Republicans to support it. But committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., invoked House rules that allowed him to bring up the amendment for a second vote, despite Republican objections. This time, one conservative Democrat — Rep. Bart Gordon of Tennessee — changed his vote from “yes” to “no.” And a second conservative Democrat who hadn’t voted the first time — Rep. Zack Space of Ohio — voted “no.”

They were for it before they were against it, just like John Kerry.
Aren’t those thirty silver dollars a little heavy, Zack?

Not quite hot enough

The peasants have pitchforks:

In Bishop’s case, his decision came on the heels of a June 22 event he held in Setauket, N.Y., in which protesters dominated the meeting by shouting criticisms at the congressman for his positions on energy policy, health care and the bailout of the auto industry.

Within an hour of the disruption, police were called in to escort the 59-year-old Democrat — who has held more than 100 town hall meetings since he was elected in 2002 — to his car safely.

They let him get away.

“I have no problem with someone disagreeing with positions I hold,” Bishop said, noting that, for the time being, he was using other platforms to communicate with his constituents. “But I also believe no one is served if you can’t talk through differences.”

Here’s the difference: what’s mine is mine. You got something to say to that?

Now, granted, there aren’t enough Repugnicans facing the same music, and there should be.

NPR listener: we’ve all been smart since 1/20/09

Coupla nights ago, National Propaganda Radio had a little piece about the end of the Mayan calendar. It was pretty fluffy, but then, if the networks aren’t doing real news, why should NPR? Yesterday, they read a letter complaining about it as giving air time to New Age superstition. It ended, “I thought we’d left that behind on January…” and I thought “…1st, 2000″, which was the last time we had Apocalypse Fever. But no, it was “January 20th”. Evidently the advent of The One has ushered in a new age of rationality and science. Yeah, sure…

I didn’t much mind the story…I haven’t been listening to NPR much as they are so far in-the-tank for Obamacare that they’re drowning. As for the Mayan calendar, my grandfather’s people were/are Community of Christ (formerly Reorganized Latter Day Saints), and it would be an amusing vindication of sorts if it turned out to be a leftover bit of prophecy from Nephite times. Mostly, though, I think, “My datebook ends on January 31, 2010!~ We’re all gonna DIE!!!!”

Some susines are more equal than others

…or so they think. Alexandria police Chief David P. Baker got into an accident Sat. night that sent both drivers to the hospital. That was bad enough. But then he blew .19 in a state where the legal limit is .08. Fortunately, he is in at least as much trouble as you or I would be.

“You paperss, please, Herr Obama!”

I’ve been ambivalent about Birthers before on this blog. But in reading this piece of Birthery on WND, something struck me: the most fascist US president yet is being opposed with a big cry of “Your paperss, please!” Is that ironic? Or is it indicative that ultimately they’re both coming from the same place? I report, you decide.

Nice stat

The library distributed a questionnaire to faculty about journals.

Number returned:

Music: 9 (near 100%)

Chemistry: 4

And there are a lot more chemistry profs, and their journals cost more. I guess when you see faculty every day, they start taking “their” library seriously.

Voiny is senile

“We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns,” Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) told the Columbus Dispatch. “It’s the southerners…They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrrr,’” he said. “People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?’”

Well, considering that Ohio south of Canton is in the North only by historical accident, and not by culture, and considering how many of his constituents are from West Virginia, quite a bit actually. I suppose that it would have been better if we’d lost the War for Southern Independence so that the servile sons of Serbs and Slovenians could Commify and gun-ban to their hearts content, without any wild freedom-loving Scots-Irish to cause them trouble… which is another way of saying that if it weren’t for the South, this country would be royally screwed.

Personally, I wouldn’t much mind if the Southerners started a real Civil War, as in “All your base are belong to us”, as opposed to “Leave us alone, and no, we aren’t paying duties, so leave Ft. Sumter to us.” Tom Coburn is a statist pig, but he would be infinitely preferable to Voinovich.

Service Protection Direct, demon of the week

Charles W. Papenfus of Fostoria Ohio is behind bars because some weenie at a telemarketing company actually believed that he would drive all the way to St. Louis and burn down their offices and kill all the employees.  And he could get up to 4 years for this non-crime.

I don’t know why they took it so personally. After all, don’t all telemarketers deserve to die?