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With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned by the right wing as a "failed welfare scheme" now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children...  The problem has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs. Virtually all have incomes near or below the federal poverty line, but their eclectic ranks testify to the range of people struggling with basic needs. They include single mothers and married couples, the newly jobless and the chronically poor, longtime recipients of welfare checks and workers whose reduced hours or slender wages leave pantries bare. [...] From the ailing resorts of the Florida Keys to Alaskan villages along the Bering Sea, the program is now expanding at a pace of about 20,000 people a day, and there are now 239 counties in the United States where at least a quarter of the population receives food stamps... Read the rest here.Tags: economy, food, human rights, poverty, recession, starvation, taxpayer money
From: Chicago
Mood:  SOS
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The senseless scourge of rhino poaching continues to grow, with poaching levels at 15-year highs. Part of the reason according to WWF is rising demand in Asia, where the horn is used in traditional Chinese medicine, but Mongabay points out an undoubted contributing factor. Rhino horn is now worth more than gold... 
(Hat-tip Matthew McDermottA kilogram of rhino horn now goes for $60,000 on the black market, whereas that much gold is currently worth a bit over $40,600. That's $1610 an ounce for the rhino horn. Back in July, WWF reported that from 2000-2005, about three rhinos were killed per month in Africa as a whole, with that figure rising to 12 per month in Zimbabwe and South Africa. At least in the case of Zimbabwe, an utter lack of law enforcement, not helped by virtually no funding for rangers to protect rhinos, and weak penalties for poachers who are caught doesn't help the situation. In fact, 25% of Zimbabwe's rhinos have be killed just in the past three years, as evidence mounts that poachers are linking up with international crime syndicates to sell the horn. Poaching in Asia isn't much better, with at least ten rhinos being killed in India and seven in Nepal since the start of 2009. There are only five remaining rhino species left in the world and, according to the UCN, three are classified as critically endangered (Javan, Sumatran, and black rhino), the white rhino is listed as 'near threatened', while the Indian rhino is 'vulnerable'. Learn more (and get involved) here.Tags: africa, animals, crime, endangered species, extinction, greed, india, loathsome people, poaching, wildlife
From: Chicago
Mood:  Damned, Dirty Apes
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Hey kids - My daughter and her friends are organizing a holiday pet food drive to benefit a number of local no-kill shelters, and they could really use a helping hand...  If your holiday budget allows, please consider pitching in for one or more 8-pound bags of high quality dog or cat food, which we're getting a discounted price ( $6 for one bag, $14 for three bags or $21 for five bags). Our goal is to distribute 800 pounds! Thanks in advance for your kindness & generosity... and for caring about homeless cats and dogs this season. I'll keep everyone posted on our progress. :) P.S. If you prefer, you can also purchase a copy of my Calendar of Horrors, and I will donate all of the proceeds (minus postage) to the girls' food drive. Tags: animals, cats, dogs, food, friends, holidays, pet rescue, thank you
From: Chicago
Mood:  Grateful
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Hat-tip David Desalvo... Even as millions of people starve the world over, residents in United States are wasting food like never before...  A new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50% since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150 trillion calories a year, reports Livescience. The study, authored by researchers from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, was recently published in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Researchers conducted a calculation of the difference between the U.S. food supply and what’s actually eaten, which was estimated by using a model of human metabolism and known body weights. According to the findings, about 40 percent of all the food produced in the U.S. is thrown out.The study also found that food waste now accounts for more than one quarter of the total freshwater consumption in the U.S. and more than 300 million barrels of oil per year. To put all of this in context, consider a few equivalencies: • According to the CDC, Americans consume about 2600 calories a day on average. Based on that estimate, 1400 calories is roughly a meal and a half of food wasted every day. • According to the USGS, total freshwater consumption in the U.S, is about 350 million gallons per day. Based on that estimate, the present study indicates that food waste accounts for about 85 million gallons of water a day. That’s the equivalent of daily water use in the states of California and Texas combined. • 300 million barrells of oil is about the equivalent of annual oil consumption in the state of New York, or a country the size of Singapore or Thailand. Previous research indicated that more than 29 million tons of food is wasted in the U.S. each year, or enough to fill the Rose Bowl every three days, with a cost equivalent of more than $100 billion annually. Meanwhile, a recent report by the USDA finds the number of U.S. homes lacking “food security,” i.e., their eating habits were disrupted for lack of money, rose from 4.7 million in 2007 to 6.7 million last year. About 1 billion people worldwide don’t have enough to eat, according to the World Food Program. Tags: dumb americans, food, gluttony, nature bats last, overpopulation, starvation
From: Chicago
Mood: Bon Appétit
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 'Bout time someone in the Democratic Party grew a pair... Former DNC Chair Howard Dean called on Senator Joe Lieberman to resign as chair of Senate Homeland Security Committee if he can't bring himself to oppose a Republican filibuster of health care reform legislation. Appearing on Joe Scarborough's radio show on Wednesday, Dean stressed that he had no problem with Lieberman opposing the bill on its philosophical merits, but he insisted that it was irresponsible and unprincipled to not allow the legislation to come to an up-or-down vote. "I think that (Lieberman) is a very complicated guy," said Dean. "He does because he says he's a principled guy but there's nothing principled about holding up a bill... If he was a principled guy he'd resign his chairmanship." "If you are with a caucus you don't owe the leader any vote on any substance," Dean added. "I have no problem with him voting against the public option... You owe it to Harry Reid to allow him to run the Senate. And if you're not willing to do that the proper thing to do is to step aside." Dean also urged the party to reconsider the use of reconciliation to pass aspects of reform. Such a parliamentary maneuver, he noted, would remove the "leverage" of the party's conservative members by allowing the bill an up-or-down vote. "[Lieberman has] announced he's gong to be 'stubborn' about this," said Dean, "and I think that means going to reconciliation. You can start it all over and that's going to take about six weeks, but there are a majority of senators who are not going to favor (a bill) without a public option." # # #If I ever run into Lieberman in person, I'll be mighty tempted to piss down his crooked little leg. Tags: asshole, health care, joe lieberman, spineless democrats
From: Chicago
Mood:  Torches & Pitchforks
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From my old pal ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) purrrsuasive1...  For those of you that are sending out holiday cards this year, please include one (or more) addressed to: Holiday Mail for Heroes
P.O. Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456Do:• Get your cards in the mail no later than December 7th• Sign all cards with your name only (no personal contact info, please) • Entitle cards “Dear Service Member, Family or Veteran” • Limit cards to 15 per person or 50 for school class or business group • Bundle groups of cards in single, large envelopes • Watch the #holidaymail hashtag on Twitter, and help spread the word! Don’t:• Send letters (they won't make it through the screening process) • Include personal information such as home or email addresses within the card itself (return address info on the envelopes is OK) • Use glitter – excessive amounts can aggravate health issues of wounded recipients • Include inserts of any kind (as they, too, will be removed in the screening process) # # #Please feel free to re-post this in your LJ, Facebook, Twitter, etc., or link to this unfiltered entry if you prefer. TIA. ☺Tags: christmas, friends, holidays, thank you, veterans
From: Chicago
Mood: Grateful
Now Playing: Kitchen Clean-Up (Ugh)
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Hat-tip filkertom for the links and telemann for the 'toon...  Please read this. Then, please sign this to help do something about it. Pass-alongs in your LJ, Twitter, Facebook, etc. very much appreciated. P.S. WTF Quote of the Week: "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term." - Dana Perino, to Sean Hannity O_O Tags: dana perino, friends, health care, political cartoons, sean hannity, spineless democrats, thank you
From: Chicago
Mood:  Determined
Now Playing: Pies In The Oven
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He paid the ultimate price in the boxing ring. Now Chicago boxer Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez, who died of brain injuries sustained during a match last Friday, has given the ultimate gift... 
Hat-tip Monifa ThomasRodriguez's organs are being donated to eight people in need of potentially life-saving transplants, including the 25-year-old's uncle. The family only recently learned that Rodriguez was a blood and tissue type match for his uncle, who has been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant for "a long, long time," the family said in a statement. "Although we've tragically lost Paco, we're able to give this incredible gift of life to another family member," Rodriguez' brother, Alex Rodriguez, said. Rodriguez died Sunday after sustaining fatal head injuries during his first title match Friday night against Teon Kennedy for the USBA super bantamweight championship. His family agreed to donate his organs after consulting with a representative from the Gift of Life organ donor program. "My brother was so strong and healthy. His heart and lungs were in perfect condition. It would have been a terrible waste not to share his life with others. How could we not help another family?" Alex Rodriguez said. Rodriguez won a national Golden Gloves title in 2001 when he was 17 and tried out for the 2004 Olympic team. He is survived by his wife, Sonia, and their baby daughter, Ginette. P.S. If you're not yet an organ donor, you can get started on becoming one here... Please do. Tags: boxing, death, mortality, sports
From: Chicago
Mood:  Bittersweet
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Spend, die, rinse, repeat... President Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy. Obama is expected to announce his decision on Dec. 1st, followed by meetings on Capitol Hill aimed at winning congressional support amid opposition by some Democrats who are worried about the strain on the U.S. Treasury and whether Afghanistan has become a quagmire, the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal could arrive in Washington as early as Sunday to participate in the rollout of the new plan, including testifying before Congress toward the end of next week. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry also are expected to appear before congressional committees. As it now stands, the plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March of three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum and a Marine brigade from Camp Lejeune. In addition, a 7,000-strong division headquarters would be sent to take command of U.S.-led NATO forces in southern Afghanistan and 4,000 U.S. military trainers would be dispatched to help accelerate an expansion of the Afghan army and police. There are currently 68,000 U.S. troops and 42,000 from other countries in Afghanistan. The U.S. Army's recently revised counterinsurgency manual estimates that an all-out counterinsurgency campaign in a country with Afghanistan's population would require about 600,000 troops. Obama campaigned saying that he'd fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars from the defense budget, but Mullen has said that the Afghan war — which some administration officials privately concede could cost $700 billion to $1 trillion over 10 years — might require a supplemental funding bill next year. Some senior Democrats have suggested that the administration may need to raise taxes in order to pay for the additional troops. Full article here.Tags: afghanistan, barack obama, dead u.s. troops, dumb americans, military stupidity, taxpayer money, war on terror
From: Chicago
Mood: Ugh
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Found on Dave Weigel's Twitter: A new resolution sponsored by (non-elected) Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp (IN) and nine other RNC members aims at preventing future NY-23 disasters by requiring that any and all GOP candidates agree to at least eight of 10 issue promises in order to receive financial support from the RNC...  The resolution would prohibit RNC money from flowing to any candidate who disagrees with more than two itemized planks of the GOP platform (playing off Reagan's maxim that anyone who agreed with him 80% of the time is not 20% an enemy). The key text: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:
1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;
2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further
RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated public policy position of the Republican National Committee, as identified by the voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate, shall not be eligible for financial support and endorsement by the Republican National Committee. This is not the first time Bopp has introduced what could prove to be a controversial resolution. Earlier this year, he offered a resolution condemning Obama's agenda as "socialist." Chairman's Steele's allies eventually brokered a compromise that softened the language. Now the language is back, encouraging "Republican solidarity in opposition to Obama's socialist agenda." When finalized, the resolution will be submitted for discussion at party's semiannual meeting in Hawaii. *makes popcorn* Tags: republican implosion, right-wing lunatics
From: Havana, Cuba
Mood: Amused
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Note the rather unfortunate ad placement...  Police say that a gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col. Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police. He said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police it was worth $60,000 a gallon. Mejia said the suspects told police the fat was sold to intermediaries in Lima, the Peruvian capital. While police suspect the fat was sold to cosmetic companies in Europe, he could not confirm any sales. Medical experts expressed doubt about an international black market for human fat, though it does have cosmetic applications. Yale University dermatology professor Dr. Lisa Donofrio speculated that a small market may exist for "human fat extracts" to keep skin supple, though scientifically such treatments are "pure baloney." At a news conference, police showed reporters two bottles of fat recovered from the suspects and a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim. Suspect Elmer Segundo Castillejos, 29, led police to the head, recovered in a coca-growing valley last month, Mejia said. Mejia said Castillejos confessed that the gang would cut off its victims' heads, arms and legs, remove the organs, then suspend the torsos from hooks above candles that warmed the flesh as the fat dripped into tubs below. Six members of the gang remain at large, Mejia said, adding that in addition to the five killings the suspects confessed to, the gang may be involved in dozens more. Castillejos told police that the band's fugitive leader, 56-year-old Hilario Cudena, has been killing to extract fat from victims for more than three decades. At least 60 people are listed as missing in Huanuco province, where the gang allegedly operated, this year alone, though the province is also home to drug-trafficking leftist rebels. Tags: crime, gross, jesus fucking christ
From: Chicago
Mood:  Ugh
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Seems our old friend reality_hammer is none too happy with the USPSTF and their hotly-debated opinion that most women under 50 don't need yearly mammograms: "The left is frantically trying to downplay this ill-advised "advice" recently given out by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (which is a prototype for what kind of panels that would govern all manner of health care procedures in the various bills being considered by Democrats in Congress).
"But the truth is already out there: this is just a thinly disguised rationing plan [...] Ironically, the increasing wait-times of past years have been used by the left as a justification for government takeover! o_O Now, as a guy married to a 40-something woman myself, I still believe that annual mammograms are a good idea for all women in her age group (and HHS Secretary Sebelius agrees, by the way), but it seems to me that Hammer's little tirade here has a few holes in it, politically speaking: 1) The USPSTF is an independent panel of private-sector medical experts. It has no authority to "plan" - much less legislate - anything. At all. 2) The Obama administration itself has nothing whatsoever to do with the conclusions and/or recommendations set forth by the USPTF, and no obligation to abide by said recommendations. At all. 3) The USPTF ("the protoype for governing panels," in Hammer's words) was first convened in 1984 under the not-so-socialist eye of his personal idol, Ronald "Ketchup is a Vegetable" Reagan. 4) The mammogram study in question was originally commissioned in 2007. Under George W. Bush. Sidenote: If Hammer has read even one page of the "various bills" he mentions above, I am Lawrence of Arabia. :) Give this guy (and even more so his wild-eyed doppelganger) the chance, and they will take any item on the newswire and try to blame it on Obama. Just wait 'til the next earthquake, school shooting, industrial accident or football injury and you'll see... Wasn't it just about a year ago that the wingnuts were ranting about how liberals "blame everything bad on Bush"? Hm. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to more vital matters, like the president bowing to Akihito. Outrageous, I tell you! Tags: dumb americans, health care, lying liars, reality_hammer, right-wing hack, women
From: Chicago
Mood: Amused
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Just another Al Gore-style scare tactic, I'm sure:  The world's oceans, which normally gobble up carbon dioxide, are getting stuffed to the gills, according to the most thorough study to date of human-made carbon in the seas. Between 2000 and 2007, as emissions of carbon dioxide skyrocketed, the amount of human-made carbon absorbed by the oceans fell from 27 to 24 percent. In terms of ocean processes, "that's a pretty large drop, and the trend is pretty clear: The ocean can't keep up with [human-made carbon]," said study leader Samar Khatiwala, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. ( Read the rest... )Tags: climate change, dumb americans, global warming, oceans, science
From: Chicago
Mood: Shit
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22-year-old Svajunas Beniukas, who posted a video of himself throwing a dog off a bridge, has been hunted down by outraged animal lovers on the Internet.  In the grainy video footage, Beniukas is seen standing on a bridge clutching the dog and bragging about how he will prove that "dogs can fly." Then, horrifyingly, he raises the dog over the railing and lets go, sending it hurtling to the pavement below where it can be heard crying in pain. Miraculously, the dog - named "Pipiras" ("Pepper" in English) - was rescued by a passerby and is being treated for multiple fractures and internal injuries from which he's expected to recover. The video clip quickly circulated in Lithuania where it was shot, causing outrage among viewers (who soon began a search reminiscent of the hunt for cat torturer Kenny Glenn). Working with the authorities, the online investigators determined that the dog was dropped from a bridge in the Vilkija district. Police then worked with users of a local website to identify Beniukas, who - on learning of the manhunt - turned himself in to police. As it turns out, Beniukas was already a suspect in a robbery that had been committed earlier. As for the motive, Pipiras had allegedly killed some of Beniukas's mother's chickens, so Beniukas stole the dog from its owners and took it to the bridge to exact his revenge. He's been charged with animal cruelty and faces a year in jail if convicted. Police later issued a statement thanking users of the website http://www.15min.lt/ for helping them identify the culprit. Thanks to dwaleberry for the link. Tags: animal abuse, asshole, crime, dogs, justice, loathsome people
From: Chicago
Mood: Shanks A Lot
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I've been to this place a few times when I was younger, and it always pinched my gut afterward (a whole 'nother topic altogether)... Please pass this on to anyone that may be able lend a hand:
 Michigan-based Allies for Greyhounds (AFG) - a nonprofit group that helps find homes for "retired" greyhounds - is in a real bind. The Dairyland Greyhound Race Park in Kenosha, Wisconsin will shut down at the end of the year, and between 400 and 600 greyhounds will need homes or face the possibility of being put down. "There's a great need to get these dogs adopted out to different adoption agencies," said AFG volunteer Anna Silvers. "We're working with them to find them homes, get them adopted out or into foster homes." Those who have already adopted the animals, or have found foster homes for them, say they're a special breed and they have a special place in their hearts for them. "They're really low-maintenance dogs," said greyhound owner Kelly Marchand. "They're very gentle. They walk into your house almost as if they've always lived there. They're usually housebroken when you get them. They're very obedient dogs that listen very well." "They're really, really friendly," adds Sage Marchand, whose family adopted a greyhound. "I just think they're beautiful dogs. The best part I like about them is that they are oddly lazy, even though they used to running." For more information, please contact AFG here, or call (866) 929-DOGS. Reposts in your LJ, Facebook, MySpace and/or Twitter accounts appreciated. Tags: animals, dogs, friends, pet rescue, thank you
From: Chicago
Mood:  Hopeful
Now Playing: Sorry, Blame It On Me' - Akon
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Fascinating article by Steven Stoll for Harper's (November 2009), which just may change the way you think about the entire climate debate. A really good read if you've got a few minutes... "It’s not whether or not we’re going through a global warming period. We were. We’re not now. You know God’s still up there. We’re now going through a cooling spell. And the whole issue there was, Is it man-made gases, anthropogenic gases, CO2, methane. I don’t think so."
— Senator James Inhofe (R.-OK), October 7, 2008Rather than continue to reject four centuries of scientific thought as an atheist conspiracy, skeptics of climate change now concede the effect and attribute the cause to a remote but still vaguely engaged Creator. For the nearly incoherent senator from Oklahoma—the ranking Republican on the Committee on Environment and Public Works—a March snowstorm in Tulsa proves that the Almighty has recently changed plans. Others of this cohort consult the Gospels on the future extent of flooding and call any suggestion of a human factor in global warming “arrogance.” Senator Inhofe’s humility would be philosophical if it weren’t a charade meant to protect the economic system that is his real religion. Moreover, his tirades would be irrelevant but for the many citizens who agree with him. According to a poll by the Pew Research Center, 38% of those polled and 49% of white evangelicals believe either that climate change is a hoax or that humans are not responsible for it. Inhofe might do well to ponder the recent discovery of one scientist at the University of Virginia whose findings amount to a natural experiment: What would happen to carbon dioxide and methane if humans disappeared? The answer is a tale not of drought but of rain, not of warming but of cooling. Its relevant technology consisted not of internal combustion and the steam engine but of horse collars and the moldboard plow. Excavate the Middle Ages, and one unearths a geological event with enormous implications for how we think about and respond to climate... ( Read the rest... )Tags: climate change, disease, ecology, environment, global warming, overpopulation
From: Chicago
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While Republicans in Congress are gearing up to fight the relocation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to a prison facility in Illinois, a group of highly-respected conservative figures lent their support to the transfer on Sunday, calling it necessary to "preserve national security" while simultaneously avoiding "sweeping and radical departures from an American constitutional tradition." In a joint statement prepared by the Constitution Project, David Keene, founder of the American Conservative Union, Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and former representative (and 2008 presidential candidate) Bob Barr say moving suspected terrorists to the Thomson prison facility "makes good sense." Taxpayers, they note, have already invested $145 million in the facility, which has been "little used." And the surrounding community, they add, could benefit from increased employment once the prison becomes filled. "The scaremongering about these issues should stop," they add, noting that there is "absolutely no reason to fear that prisoners will escape or be released into their communities." Read the rest...Personally, I'm all for shutting down Gitmo and bringing the prisoners here to Illinois. I'm also in favor of prosecuting them in New York through the federal justice system... What do you think... and why? Poll #1486820 Gitmo or Illinois?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 68 What should we do with the prisoners at Gitmo? How should the prisoners be tried? Tags: crime, guantanamo, justice, prison, reader poll, terrorism, war on terror
From: Chicago
Mood:  Curious
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Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty: Giving hunters — and human beings — a bad name... 
(Hat-tip Nick Baumann @ MoJo)"T-Paw" is taking a well-deserved drubbing from the outdoor community for not bothering to track down a wounded deer he shot on the opening day of Minnesota's firearm deer season. A headline on deerhuntingchat.com calls the possible '12 presidential contender a "slob hunter" for wounding a deer on Nov. 7th and then leaving for a Republican fundraiser in Iowa before the animal could be found. One contributor wrote: "What kind of slob hunter goes out opening morning and shoots a deer knowing full well you won't have time to retrieve it or tend to it? One whose presidential ambitions override his hunting ethics, that's what kind." After the governor shot the deer from more than 200 yards away (a long shot that would only be ethically taken by a well-seasoned hunter, which Pawlenty is not), he and his brother Dan went to the spot where they last saw the animal. Finding blood but no deer, they returned to base camp for breakfast and to consider their next move. Due in Iowa that night for a fundraiser, Pawlenty left, and there has been no sign of the animal since. As the Deer Hunting Guide says: "A responsible hunter, who is also an ethical hunter, will be prepared to spend hours trailing a wounded deer; even come back the next day if needed. You must make every effort to retrieve a wounded animal. It's the right ethical thing to do." P.S. WTF, T-Paw? Everyone knows that real hunters gun down wolves from helicopters. That, or they shoot their friends in the face pen-raised quail. Tags: asshole, hunting, loathsome people, tim pawlenty
From: Chicago
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