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30 Days episode

We watched a 30 Days episode last night that put a NC redneck hunter into the midst of a bunch of vegan PETA morons in CA (where else?). It was interesting. The redneck came to same conclusion as I: the animal processing industry is unnecessarily harsh and cruel and should be stopped, but we’re not gonna stop eating animals. It’s more humane to hunt them yourself than buy ground beef at the store, but who’s gonna do that? Of course the PETA activists were spouting lies lies and more lies. Here are 2 of most bald faced, moronic and ignorant of the lies:

  • Live subject vivisection is still widely used in the research industry (absolutely NOT. Animals in research facilities have got it good. The regulations on how they must be treated is staggering. Having been partnered with a research neuroscientist for 8 years, trust me, I KNOW.).
  • Dead and decomposed animals are scooped up off the side of the road at factory farms and served to you as ground beef (not in this country, fools! Probably not anywhere since it’d KILL everyone. Duh.).
  • Milk cows are forced to remain pregnant their whole lives to supply milk (not exactly. They *are* bred, but they are rotated in and out of the breeding/milking cycle. Oh, and if you DON’T milk a cow with full udders, she will get sick and DIE. Dumbasses.).

PETA is full of whackjob extremists who think if you’re not eating grass and stealing animals from labs and farms you’re supporting cruelty to animals. BULLSHIT. I think anyone who is a member of PETA should be banned from any medicines that have come from animal research (that would be ALL of them for those of you who are slow). Many of the Hollywood Hypocrites who are members of PETA, still support various research groups who use animals every day to do said research. This is my wish:

Nurse at ER Admittance desk after accident: “Oh, I see here you’re a member of PETA. Well, we can stitch you up without lidocaine, set your bones without pain killers and give you some bandaids, but since you don’t believe in animal research, we can’t give you any antibiotics or do any procedures that were learned on animals. Have a nice day!”

Animal research saves lives. Period. I just wish they could use squirrels for it…;)

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Bernie still missing: day 5

I’ve pulled out all the stops and asked the “psychics” for help. I can’t help but put that in quotes, despite the fact that they make their money at it. I dunno, they just seem so squirrelly that it doesn’t make sense to me that they actually do see things. Nonetheless, I asked for a reading on Bernadette. When MissyKat went missing a few years back, they did come back with “she’s trapped somewhere” – and she actually was trapped in the basement of the house next door. I guess that’s why I figure, WHY NOT? [I just got an answer and they say that Bernie is “in someone’s house or trapped in a basement but nothing deadly is coming to mind”. Huh. Same thing they said last time. ::sigh:: Oh well, worth a try.]

I’m numb about it right now. The current of worry and sadness is a low pitched hum in the background of my thoughts. I’m not crying, but I am unnerved. I woke up at 2am this morning worrying. I’m trying to plumb the ethers myself in the vain hope that I’ll have a flash of insight as to where she might be.

I’m irritated that I can have a flash of insight for that cunt Heathen but not for something important to me like my sweet little cat.

Dammit, I hate the not knowing.

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The Karen Tribe formerly of Burma

So I’m reading this book by Amy Tan, Saving Fish From Drowning. It has an odd premise: Tan met a psychic who was channeling a woman named Bibi Chen… Odder still because that whole intro was fictitious as is the whole story. It’s always weird to me when an author does things like faked intros and such. It seems plausible that the story could be from a ghost, but as it goes along, you begin to feel the fantasy aspect of it as well and you start to doubt the premise. I’ve not finished it yet, but I’ve only got a few pages left. No spoilers here!

I will give you a short outline: Bibi puts together a trip for her friends to Burma (aka Myanmar). She has clout and could deal with the myriad government agencies to do this. Then she dies, hence her omniscient point of view for the book. The friends still take the trip down “Burma Road” and bizarre things happen along the way. They end up with one of the Burmese tribes (the Karen tribe) that have been beaten down by the new government of Myanmar. That’s all you need to know for this post. Read the book, it’s very entertaining.

What brings this up is today is a tiny little article in the AJC about the Karen tribe “refugees” in Myanmar (Burma) – or rather, their NOT being in Myanmar. They escaped to Thailand or have been put there by the Mayanmar government since 2005. Now Thailand is farming them out to other countries. This is the largest resettlement of refugees in the world according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. They have tossed over 30,000 Karen first from Myanmar and now Thailand. They are people without a country, literally. Estimates are that over 20,000 of these people have come to the United States.

Who knew?

If it weren’t for Amy Tan’s book, I’d have never even known about this situation. Don’t think that reading fiction won’t teach you things.

Now go to your neighborhood used book shop and get your read on. You just might learn something. :-)

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Want birds in your yard?

Turn on a sprinkler when it’s hot and dry like this. I’ve got baby cardinals, a baby thrasher, grown up cardinals and finches taking turns getting their baths on. They are so cute when they poof up their feathers. :-) A mourning dove just came over to see what all the excitement is about. Damn, I’ve got me a regular Birdie Bath House!

Having full feeders also helps… the Brown Headed nuthatches barely let me get the refilled feeder hung before they were all over it squeaking away. I swear they sit in the trees waiting for me to fill them up. Sometimes the mourning doves or cardinals will sit on the top of the empty feeder and give me the stink eye. Heh. Birds are pretty smart, if you ask me.