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| Is It The Way We Treat Horses? What Makes Kentucky The Best Place to Abuse Animals? Posted: 15 Dec 2010 10:41 PM PST Uh, no. It’s not the way Ma Fellow Kentuckians treat horses that makes being an animal abuser easy in Kentucky.
Kentucky, North Dakota, Idaho, Mississippi and Iowa are the five best states in the country to be an animal abuser, according to a new report released today by the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF). After checking through 4,000 pages of statutes, tracking fourteen broad categories of provisions, the report recognizes the states where animal law has real teeth, and calls out those like Kentucky–the single worst in the nation for animal protection laws for the fourth year running--where animal abusers get off easy. Why is Kentucky the worst?
Stephan Otto, the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s director of legislative affairs and author of the report says this:
But in rural counties, there are more animal abusers – dog and cock fighters, and puppy mills owners who vote – and contribute money to the pols, than those who think animals need our protection. In case you haven’t looked, Kentucky is a rural state. Those lawmakers from the rural counties aren’t going to touch any law that smells of animal protection, any more than they would touch a law that touches gun control or restricts property rights. Losers. I’m ashamed of Kentucky. But proud that we live in a community that supports a no-kill animal shelter. And while I’m on my soap-box, go here and vote for this couple in Costa Rica trying to save animals. There is only one shelter in Costa Rica in the running, Lighthouse. They are just a couple of plain folks trying to make a difference by pinching pennies and searching for free money from companies who want to do good. As Frances explained: every one of these shelters deserves the money, but many get support from other grants and agencies. This contest is the only free money Lighthouse Animal Shelter has a shot at. They are in second place by a hair… your votes (contest ends Saturday) could keep them in the money. BTW: if you have more than one computer with more than one browser, vote them ALL! [] = climbs down off soapbox. |
| Facebook Doesn’t Want to Know About Abuse Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:24 AM PST Time Person of the Year, Mark Zuckerberg, is the CEO of Facebook. So I thought I would help out my fellow Mark and police his website last evening, despite the fact that Facebook labeled me annoying – police sometimes have to be annoying, right?
See all those dots and the link ends in .to? Sound the General Alarm, Sound the General Alarm... .to is the top level domain name for Tonga! Nothing ever good came out of Tonga, except for those toy trucks, and those were Tonka which caused the war in Vietnam which was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which of course is no way you want to play the game, just tonkin’ the golf ball. Since I was on night watch over the mean streets of Facebook, I forwarded the email to the industry standard email address to report abuse. abuse@facebook.com You’re welcome Mark. But wait, what’s this? The email didn’t bounce like it was a bad address, it bounced because Facebook doesn’t care about abuse. I got this breezy email back from the abuse watchers at Facebook:
Yes, the email address abuse@facebook, was valid, it’s just that a live person doesn’t bother to look at anything that pops up there – even reports of abuse. Instead the auto-reply gave me these choices of links to click:
Most had the admonishment to “use the proper reporting.” Hey Zucker! When an email hit’s Facebook and it has the word “abuse” in the address, you can’t have one of your engineers write some code to forward it to “Reporting Abusive Content?” so a person will deal with it? To add insult to insult, I get a follow up email chastising me for not know that @facebook.com has been changed to @fb.com.
I guess when you are busy invading Facebook privacy, having to type “facebook” rather than “fb” would be kind of a hassle. Those guys driving Tonkas in Tonga certainly appreciate the pixel savings, let along the wear and tear on keyboards by not having to type those six extra characters. I’m done. I resign my volunteer duties as the Facebook Police. It’s bad enough you consider be annoying, but to summarily discharge and prematurely ejaculate with a poo-poo brush off, is even more than I can stand. Mark Zuckerberg, Time Person of the Year, I got your award right here. |
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