In Philadelphia, from David Zincavage at Never Yet Melted. He quotes from the Border Collie Bulletin Board: “The local SPCA raided Wendy’s Willard’s kennel where she keeps her Murder Hollow Bassets on Monday night. They arrived with seven trucks and two police cars & informed her that one of her neighbours had complained about noise. …
Tag: Doom
Guns, Freedom, threats to…
According to David at Never Yet Melted the last elections had one mighty ironic effect: “Americans responded to the election of a democrat-dominated federal government by buying enough guns in 3 months to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian Armies. We also bought 1,529,635,000 rounds of ammunition in the month of December 2008 alone.” That’s …
Uprooted
An article in the Telegraph tells how a leading children’s dictionary has dropped words relating to religion, history, and the countryside. “But academics and head teachers said that the changes to the 10,000 word Junior Dictionary could mean that children lose touch with Britain’s heritage. “”We have a certain Christian narrative which has given meaning …
A Few Thoughts on Politics
What is it with people this year? I never could get that passionate about electoral politics. Or dream of distorting facts to bolster my candidate. Have you seen Naomi Wolfe on how “Evita” Palan is the stalking horse for the new fascism, how this will be the last election of our lifetime, and how she …
Couldn’t have said it better
From Peculiar: “I really don’t hope for much these days in terms of taxation, liberty, shrewd foreign policy, immigration, &c. About the acme of my fondest hopes for the next administration is a Forest Service with a reasonable budget and some BLM personnel with detectable humanity. I do think Palin has a certain amount of …
New Links & More
Sorry for light posting. Matt and I have both had deadlines (and his office is moving) and you probably know how busy Reid is already. I am writing some material that COULD lead to something big so posting after today will still be lighter than usual, though I’ll try to get in a review or …
Food and AR News
In Oakland you can have an actual farm, pigs and all. But in Chicago, the banningest city in the US (pigeons, foie gras, handguns), HSUS wants to compel you to cut off your dogs’ gonads. Of course they say it is a good thing. The Sportsman’s and Animal Owners Voting Alliance thinks differently: “The distorted …
Around the Web…
Back from a great weekend of wildlife watching, mushroom hunting, and eating and drinking with bloggers- more below (Or rather, above). But first let me catch up with the news, serious, unserious, amusing and distressing… On our perrenial concern, AR, anti hunters and so on: the LAT does a fawning profile of Wayne Pacelle. Apart …
Lost Kitty
Paul Domski mailed me this poster under the head of “Why City People Shouldn’t Move to the Country”:
Links
According to this story in the Telegraph the most aggressive breed of dog is the dachshund. Lily would not be surprised– she is almost suicidally brave defending herself. Interestingly, Sir Terence Clark tells me that, while he was attending the Saluki Congress in Finland last week, a report was given that Germany has passed new …