Move over robo-calls, states sell email addresses for campaigns to reach voters
A Fox News study has found 19 states plus the District of Columbia, now ask for an email address on voter registration cards. In nine of those states, email addresses from the cards are then sold to political parties, organizing groups, lawmakers and campaigns who can use them to send unsolicited emails.
If it were a Viagra ad, it be considered a crime in some states. But a political message, that’s all perfectly legal…
I’m shocked, shocked! This so violates my trust and faith in government…NOT.
Frozen Venice: the lagoon and canals ice over as Europe’s big freeze continues
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A small boat makes its way along a partly frozen canal in Venice. The city’s lagoon has frozen for the first time in more than two decades
Looks like those folks could use some Global Warming.
Animal charity [PETA] sues SeaWorld on behalf of five ‘slave’ whales
PETA said a ruling in its favour would only help to protect the orcas in the entertainment industry and other cases involving animals would have to be decided on their own merits.
Kerr said Sea World employees are in violation of the 13th amendment because their conduct is enslaving an intelligent, highly social species that suffers from its confinements in ways similar to what humans would experience.
Brushing animals off as property is the same argument that was used against African-Americans and women before their constitutional rights were protected, PETA says.
Shaw pointed out that argument does not translate because both women and African-Americans are people for which the Constitution was written to protect.
Last nights pork chops filed a “cease and desist” order.
Seriously, bring up this case if anyone tries telling you that PETA is not a radical organization. The arguments they have advanced in this case are insulting to the efforts of those “Human Beings” who gave their lives ending slavery.
Contributions to PETA can and will be funneled to its more violent and illegal groups for which it is just a front.
This has been documented by examining IRS forms submitted over the years. Millions of dollars to burn down Condos, set deadly traps for lumberman and hunters, destroy labs and important medical research intended to save human life. (No, they don’t actually itemize those activities, even on the long form). ALF & ELF have proudly boasted of doing just that.
Been to a Circus as a kid? I have, (well I was a forty year old kid at the time) I took my wife to see the circus in Boston. She had never been to one and she loved it. Lions and tigers and bears, “Smile Please!”. The harassment and legal expense are already causing many animal acts to shut down. And when they shut down a animal act, the animals don’t go on unemployment. They are mostly killed. And in the future support for breeding many exotic “wild” animals will disappear if they cannot be shown. (You think Zoo’s are going to be exempt?). Many of these animals are endangered in the disappearing “wild” that they originated in. Especialy in Africa, there is very little sentiment about large, undomesticated animals in Africa. (Think about the BJ wholesale institutional size BBQ sauce emptied in one sitting.)
PETA is comprised of idiots, who support murderers and arsonists, and too many people are supporting them. Especially with money.
STOP IT, just stop doing that, please.
On the North River 