Or a damned good argument for bringing back mandatory quarantines.

Or forced sterilization of stupid people.

The Humane Society of Canada is asking Canada's broadcasting regulator to phase out the airing of Calgary Stampede events.

The animal-welfare group believes rodeo events during the 10 days of Stampede violate the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) code by glamourizing cruelty to animals during programming.

And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...

The Humane Society of Canada does not run shelters - these are not the people who take in lost pets. This is hard left animal rights fund-raising media centric activism in the tradition of Greenpeace. (Until 1995, they were directly controlled by the Humane Society of the United States.)

In the meanwhile, the HSoC website is offering a poll (link fixed) that's asking to go horribly wrong. To get a sense of the level of real world public support this organization has, note that the poll has received just 355 votes in the nearly two months it's been up.

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]]> http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/011751.html http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/011751.html Reader Tips Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:01:02 -0500 Peggy Joseph - "I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage."

GOP.gov - "The bill (H.R. 2454) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide monthly cash payments, or "energy stamps", to low-income households for their estimated "loss in their purchasing power" resulting from the Democrats' national energy tax. The bill establishes a national standard of eligibility (covering everyone under 150% of the poverty line). Energy stamps would reach an estimated 65 million individuals (about 20 percent of all US residents) - making it a larger program than welfare, food stamps, or even Medicaid. (H.R. 2454, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Sec. 431, p. 1193)"

Do you suppose anyone in Ottawa has bothered to check? And by "anyone", I mean those Keynesian worshiping idiots in every party.

Actually, I'd like to take that part about "Keynesian worshiping idiots" back. Canadian "recovery" spending is more apt to be the product of last week's polling twitch than last century's economic theory.

Besides, "ignorant servile scum!" has a much better ring to it.

"For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors."

June 29, 2009 - "While promoting his new cap-and-trade energy tax bill, which passed the U.S. House last week, President Obama revealed in a White House address on Monday his model for the nation's economy - California."

July 1, 2009 - "GM to Stop Making Cars in California"

Enrique Ortez, interim foreign minister, said Zelaya would be arrested if he came home and that the interim authorities were sure Zelaya had been removed in a legal process.

"We are not negotiating national sovereignty or the presidency," he told Reuters in an interview. "There is no chance at all" of Zelaya coming back to power.

William A. Jacobson;

Poor and tiny Honduras faces the full wrath of the United States, United Nations, and much of the rest of the world, while nothing is done about Iran. On Iran, Obama and the world acted with the utmost
deference, and there were no efforts by the Obama administration at international action. None.

But Honduras, enforcing its own laws against a renegade wannabe President-for-life, for some reason warrants the full force of the United States government and international community. Honduras gets condemnation from Obama, while Chavez gets hugs and Ahmadinejad gets deference. Wonderful. No, horrible.

"And to think that there are rumors circulating that Obama has a law degree."

And yes, this is embarrassing - Canada's "Made in America" foreign policy finally gets off the ground for real. You'd think the left would be livid.

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