People Suck!!

Before I answer Kel's question she left about my late post last night, a couple other things.

Sons of Anarchy premiered on Fx last nite (as well as the new season of The Shield on Tues). I had to DvR Sons, and I'll have to wait on the DvD's for Shield, since I'm still working through Season 4 on Netflix.

Let's go back to Tuesday. I mentioned I bought two new video games, and I admit, I am becoming addicted to Lost Odyssey on Xbox. When I got home Tuesday, I started playing around 4:30, and I was glued to the TV until 11pm !! I stopped for dinner, and I almost started watching a movie, but since it is a 2hr movie, I went back to the game!

Wednesday I was busy, busy at work. I had my new weekly call, which I actually had to discuss a trouble ticket on. I admit I was a little nervous. This call involves my possible/promised promotion, and I am still learning. Most of the people on this call are Managers and Directors, but I stumbled through. When that was done, I had an early lunch, because I had to walk across campus to the test lab, to spend the rest of the day testing. After work, I had the trainer, then rushed home for bowling.

I mentioned I am still adjusting to this new ball, and after having a thumb insert, and some bevelling done around the thumb insert, I wanted to see if there was an improvement. I bowled a 170 my first game, a 179 my second, and a 198 for my third. So, I think it's safe to say I will see that improvement as I continue to adjust. Last week, I set my average at 143, and after an average last nite of 182., my league average will probably jump to maybe 160 or so.

So Kel asked what started me on my beliefs around animal rights. It's sort of confusing, and hard to explain. While dating an ex quite a few years ago, I was not 'into' animal rights like I am now. I didn't grow up oblivious to animal cruelty, but I do blame, or maybe thank, my ex for turning me down this road. We used to foster animals at our house, and at one time we had 8 dogs running around. We would foster them, taking them to pet adoptions and find them homes. Barkley, was actually going to be up for adoption at one time! My ex-girlfriend actually made the change to vegetarian while we were dating, and became more and more involved in anti-fur, anti-cruelty, and animal rights issues. It was like doing the foster work was the gateway drug. She took me along for the ride, and let me tell you, the more you see about how horrible we treat animals, the more I started disliking the human race in general. I joke about moving to a mountain cave and leaving society for good, but if the opportunity presented itself, a few ppl might realizing I wasn't laughing when I said it. I tried to keep that simple, it's like tourrette's, I blurt out my opinions on animal rights. And since you open your posts with quotes here are a few of my favorite animal rights ones.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ~C.S. Lewis

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ~Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened. ~R. Lerner, letter, Sierra, March-April 1991

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. ~Mark Twain

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. ~Mark Twain

Trust me, if I sent you the video of foxes being skinned alive for their fur, you might get sick and ask what mountain cave I am looking at.

Let's end with a couple trailers.


Humboldt County



Sex Drive




ciao!