How’s that Hope n’ Change working out for you?
March 6, 2012
Known for their shock ads and protests, PETA is a front for domestic terrorists. Their claim to fame, the ‘ethical treatment of animals’ is a lie.
And that’s par for the cat-killing course: Overall, PETA has killed more than 90 percent of the animals it’s taken in since 2005.
Bottom line: The organization that claims its members would “rather go naked than wear fur” prefers to kill dogs and cats rather than find homes for them.
Yes, making the effort to find homes for stray pets takes time — of which PETA apparently has precious little.
In 2010, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services discovered that fully 84 percent of the strays taken in by PETA were killed within 24 hours.
No wonder: The report concluded that PETA’s headquarters “does not contain sufficient animal enclosures to routinely house the number of animals annually reported as taken into custody.”
So, off they go to the gas chamber.
No surprise, though, that the organization is much more adept at fund-raising than it is at finding homes for kittens and puppies.
PETA’s annual budget is $37 million, “most,” it claims, coming from tax-deductible contributions from 2 million members.
But that is also considerably supplemented by foundation support: PETA has received some $18.7 million over the last three years from organizations like game-show host Bob Barker’s DJ&T Foundation.
NYPost
From ActivistCash, which has a lengthy page on the organization:
PETA collected almost $29 million in donations in 2004 alone, but few donors understand exactly where their money is going. During the past ten years, PETA has spent four times as much on criminals and their legal defense than it has on shelters, spay-neuter programs, and other efforts that actually help animals.
PETA is directly tied to domestic terrorists ALF and ELF, proudly proclaiming their funding. Oh, there is plenty of information on the net for anyone who looks.
Yet people are duped into donating. Unbelievable.
March 5, 2012
Because this was a gathering of people invited to our farm for dinner, I had no idea that the Health Department would become involved. I received a phone call from them two days before the event informing me that because this was a “public event” (I would like to know what is the definition of “public” and “private”) we would be required to apply for a “special use permit.” If we did not do so immediately, we would be charged a ridiculous fine. Stunned, we immediately complied.
1. Some of the prepared food packages did not have labels on them. (The code actually allows for this if it is to be consumed within 72 hours.)
2. Some of the meat was not USDA certified. (Did I mention that this was a farm to fork meal?)
3. Some of the food that was prepared in advance was not up to temperature at the time of inspection. (It was being prepared to be brought to proper temperature for serving when the inspection occurred.)
4. Even the vegetables prepared in advance had to be thrown out because they were cut and were then considered a “bio-hazard”.
5. We did not have receipts for our food. (Reminder! This food came from farms not from the supermarket! I have talked with several chefs who have said that in all their years cooking they have never been asked for receipts.)
Fresh food a bio-hazard! They weren’t even allowed to feed it to the pigs.
This is WRONG in so very many ways!
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February 7, 2012
Because mama never taught you the difference between an apple and a candy bar.
Walmart is adopting a nanny state mentality in its stores. They do this because “…we feel like our customers need help right now”.
In an effort to care for the consumer with an obviously depleted sense of personal responsibility, Walmart will label foods they believe to be healthy with bright green and white ‘Great for You’ labels.
To earn Walmart’s stamp of approval, foods must meet specific threshholds. Fresh fruits and vegetables qualify, as do lean cuts of meat. Brown rice makes the cut, while white rice does not. Skim and 1 percent milk qualify, while 2 percent and whole milk do not.
“There are no candy bars,” said Andrea Thomas, the company’s senior vice president of sustainability.
The company spoke with food and nutrition experts, health organizations, government entities and others to decide on its criteria.
“We had a nice, long debate about eggs,” said Thomas.
While some people felt that eggs should not be on the list because of the cholesterol they contain, she said, others argued that they are a good, low-cost source of protein. After hearing the various reasons, Walmart decided that eggs made the cut.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not yet introduced a standardized seal to show foods that meet certain health criteria.
“At the point in time that there is a standardized label that comes out from the FDA then we’ll be happy to make a switch,” said Thomas. “At this point we feel like our customers need help right now; we don’t know how long that’s going to take.”
At first, Walmart’s green and white “Great For You” icon will appear on signs for fresh fruits and vegetables and then pop up on packages of about 20 percent to 25 percent of the company’s Great Value brand food and on some of its Marketside items. Brand-name foods may also qualify for the seal.
Walmart’s efforts also include lowering the amount of sodium and added sugars in some of its food. The company said it cut 15 percent of the sodium in Great Value ketchup, an average of 15 percent of the sodium in Great Value canned vegetables such as corn, green beans and carrots, and more than 70 percent of the sodium in fresh steaks, roasts and certain other cuts of beef.
First lady Michelle Obama, who was with Walmart when it unveiled its plans in January 2011, said that the new seal gives parents information they need to make healthy choices, which is “a key piece of solving childhood obesity.”
Oh, so personal responsibility will suddenly grow in people, maybe like the Grinch’s heart? And all the little fat kids will be saved! Hallelujah!
This reminds me of the 17 year old girl named Stacey who ate only McNuggets for 15 years… since the age of TWO. And the ‘occasional portion of chips’, of course. And subsequently collapsed, because as we all know, including Stacey’s mom, man cannot live on McNuggets alone.
Stacey now realizes the error of her ways and is working to change her diet. But where was mom when her TWO year old started turning down everything except McNuggets? Stacey’s 39 year old mother, Evonne, was ‘exasperated’ because the other two kids ate right, dammit. She thinks her daughter should see a specialist.
Now let me tell you what my mother did… If I didn’t want to eat what was put on my plate, be it broccoli or beans, I sat at the table until I came to my senses. If I hadn’t straightened up by bedtime, guess what I got for breakfast? If I had openly defied all logic and insisted on a McNugget diet… she would have beat me until we came to an understanding.
God bless that woman. I hope she’s having tea and cake with Jesus right now.
Header image is the cleanest thing I could find at People of Walmart.
January 27, 2012
Obama decided that we needed new general aviation ‘user fees’. Sounds simple, just a few more cents per, right? Nope. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS per seat, per flight. Bad enough for struggling airlines, but even small commuter business jets and the guys who get together to fly old 172s at your local airstrip will be hit. And that means… No more flying for many of them.
After almost 9,000 people urged the president to take damaging aviation user fees off the table, the administration on Jan. 13 offered its response: No way.
In a response to a petition on the White House’s “We the People” website, Office of Management and Budget Associate Director for General Government Programs Dana Hyde reaffirmed the Obama administration’s commitment to a proposed $100-per-flight fee for use of air traffic services, claiming that the fee would both “ensure that everyone is paying their fair share” and help reduce the deficit.
“We are disappointed but not surprised that the administration continues to seek a $100 user fee on general aviation flights,” said AOPA President Craig Fuller. “Congress has repeatedly said that a GA user fee is an unacceptable method of funding the air traffic system. Pay at the pump has worked since the dawn of powered flight and it still works. The last thing we need right now is to create an expensive new bureaucracy to fix what isn’t broken.”
AOPA member Kevin Mossey of Marion, Iowa, started the petition Sept. 23 in response to a White House deficit-reduction proposal that would impose a $100-per-flight fee for flights in controlled airspace. The petition pointed out that the existing system of revenue generation, collected through excise taxes, allows more of the revenue collected to go toward the operation of the air traffic control system. It also explained that fuel taxes more accurately reflect the amount of ATC services, “as a flight from NYC to LA will require more controller time than a flight from NYC to Boston.” The petition gained 8,904 signatures—well more than the threshold at the time for earning a response from the White House.
In the response, Hyde said the administration wanted to make sure that those who benefit from the airspace system share the costs equitably.
“For example, under current law, a large commercial aircraft flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco pays between twenty-one and thirty-three times the fuel taxes paid by a corporate jet flying the same route and using the same FAA air traffic services,” according to the response.
Really? Paying the 21.9-cents-per-gallon tax on noncommercial jet fuel, operators of a Gulfstream IV business jet would pay about $87 in fuel taxes. The commercial jet fuel tax is 4.4 cents per gallon; even with a much higher fuel burn, operators of an Airbus A320 would pay about $68 in fuel taxes. AOPA maintains that GA is willing to pay its fair share into the system—but payment shouldn’t be based on faulty calculations.
A loose grasp on the workings of the aviation system also revealed itself in the ambiguous language of the proposal: It would exempt flights outside of “controlled airspace,” but doesn’t define the term. (Is Class E “controlled”?) The original proposal also would exempt “recreational piston aircraft,” a nebulous distinction. The response to the petition refers instead to exempting “all piston aircraft,” among other categories—but no segment of aviation can count itself immune once the bureaucratic structure for user fees is introduced. User fees bypass congressional budgeting processes and can be raised or expanded at will. AOPA holds that GA should pay its share using the time-tested funding system that has supported the National Airspace System for years.
Once again, hit business with more taxes. Only this time, it hurts everyone. Including the little guy.
January 27, 2012
President Obama during his State of the Union speech Tuesday debuted a new plan aimed at fixing one part of the housing crisis, saying that he would soon send Congress a bill to help some people refinance their mortgages.
Obama said he was sending lawmakers “a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates. No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks.”
The president proposed to pay for his plan by taxing banks.
“A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won’t add to the deficit, and will give banks that were rescued by taxpayers a chance to repay a deficit of trust.”
A government program allowing underwater homeowners to refinance their loans would constitute a bailout, essentially forgiving large amounts of debt they currently owe.
Aw, that sounds nice, doesn’t it? Debts forgiven and new starts? But it’s on the backs of others.
This is what I emailed my friend in return:
The American Dream was never guaranteed and nobody ever said it would be easy. But it’s not an entitlement program.That’s it. I’m converting. I’m too old to fight this bullshit any more, obviously. And it’s gone too far for anything but a revolution to put right [let Google eat those words!]
I give up. I’m a Democrat now. Take care of me. Put gas in my car, food on my table, give me a place to live and a cell phone to call my Maury friends [shudder]. OH and let’s not forget free health care! ALL the fucking entitlements! Oh, I’m joining a union, too, so give me a pension I never earned!
As if. But I will tell you this: for the first time in a very long time I doubt I will bother to vote in our primary Tuesday. The fix is in and my mindset is decidedly negative these days. There is no more news; it is information to be controlled by the Ministry of Truth and expelled through their media arms.
When I saw that a single company would control our votes and how easy it would be to manipulate them… well, if it’s easily done then someone will do it. Someone with Soros money.Remember, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
January 10, 2012
Mike had never flown Spirit Airlines before, but the round trip Fort Lauderdale to Dallas ticket was cheap, so he took a chance. How bad could it be, really? One airline is much like another and all are overseen by government agencies.
How bad? They wouldn’t let him check in online and print out his boarding pass. Seems like a small thing, especially to those who don’t travel much. But that failure means more time and money; online check in, his bag would have been $20, but at the counter it was twice that.
I think their motto is “We supply the plane and the fuel”. That’s it.
Coming home last night was a nightmare. Mike dutifully showed at the counter around 2:00p for his 5:00p flight, but they reported the plane had ‘broken’, then said it had been delayed for 4 hours. They tried to book him on another flight, but no joy.
So he went to eat dinner [in the terminal] and came back. Everyone at the Spirit counter was gone. And his flight didn’t show on the board.
Although he’d just worked almost 40 hours overtime, Mike’s mood was good. He waited some more and asked questions, but nobody knew anything, obviously because they weren’t Spirit personnel. But he had a good time trying to wheedle his knife back from TSA.
I had to call customer service [the number is not on their website] to find out that the flight would take off, but 5 hours late. It turned out to be 7 hours late. No information over the loud speaker, no phone calls to waiting customers. Nada. They were basically in limbo for 7 hours with no information. The plane didn’t get in until after 3:00a. [Which may explain some of my crankiness.]
Never, ever again. Delays are expected, extremely poor customer service in such a competitive industry is not. And not tolerated.
On the bright side, they didn’t lose his luggage. Only reason they’re not getting an F-.
I had two hours of sleep before my SIL called to tell me that her site had been hacked, so the majority of the morning has been spent with that… but I’m not complaining; Mike’s home.
December 13, 2011
Happy to have you here!
Colt Firearms is breaking with tradition and shrugging off the shackles of union servitude; they’re opening up headquarters and manufacturing just outside of Orlando, Florida.
Colt Firearms appears to be one of the many Connecticut companies looking for a less hostile home.
To clarify, Florida is a Right-to-Work state and Connecticut is not. Which may be why the UAW is so concerned about keeping jobs in the anti-business state:
The United Auto Workers says employees of Colt Firearms in West Hartford were distressed to learn that the gun manufacturer is opening a manufacturing plant in central Florida and are worried about their jobs.
The union said in a news release Monday that it is assuring members it will do what it can to keep the company and its 500 jobs in Connecticut.
[snip]Colt Manufacturing Co. announced earlier this month it is bringing 63 jobs and a new regional headquarters and product manufacturing center to Kissimmee, Fla., next year.
Of course, Colt’s move may also have more to do with the hostile nature Connecticut has toward businesses, or the largest tax increase in the state’s history that was just imposed in June.
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March 16, 2012
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