Comments on: Dear PETA: You’re in a hole. You might want to stop digging.

By: 2CatMom

2CatMom — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:06:32 +0000

Here’s to single libertarian/liberal women, (with and without NRA memberships) in the second half century of their lives!

I think we rock!!

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:39:59 +0000

Heh … I looked at it and thought, “this is why I’m single.”

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:29:25 +0000

Gina- possibly I shouldn’t tell you this, but I just forwarded that little exchange to my SO and said “this is why I love her.” I think he’s jealous. :O)

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:26:38 +0000

Mike … the short version seems pretty conflicted, I’m sure. But it all fits together … it’s about primacy, compassion and stewardship.

By: Susan Fox

Susan Fox — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:17:20 +0000

BADKarma… I guess the name says it all.
What Gina said, except I haven’t been a member of the NRA since I was 16.

By: Mike Spies

Mike Spies — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:02:11 +0000

Gina, I make no assumptions beyond what you stated above…

“I’m a liberal-libertarian Obama-voting meat-eating NRA member who fights against factory farms and for heritage breeds and reputable breeders and who recognizes the same pathetic groupthink every idiotic time it’s posted here.”

Doesn’t this leave you just a bit conflicted?

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:16:44 +0000

No, I’m a liberal-libertarian Obama-voting meat-eating NRA member who fights against factory farms and for heritage breeds and reputable breeders and who recognizes the same pathetic groupthink you share every idiotic time it’s posted here.

You can add to the discussions here with some thinking of your own or you can scat. Don’t care which you choose.

By: BADKarma

BADKarma — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:08:43 +0000

Golly, Gina, are you one of those bigoted little leftie-moos who thinks anyone whose opinion doesn’t exactly goose-step with yours must, by definition, be too stupid to form their own opinion, and peforce be “parroting” someone else’s? So sad, yet so predictable…

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:05:07 +0000

Here’s a thought: Why don’t you try forming your own opinion, instead of parroting someone else’s? And by the way, typing your “thoughts” in caps doesn’t make them more true, nor does using dollar signs for H$U$ seem clever or original.

I don’t buy groupthink or zealotry on either side. We’re all about the third way here, solutions not dogma.

Update: It’s not that I don’t have issues with some HSUS policies. In fact, just after I typed the above, I glanced at Wayne Pacelle’s blog, the most recent entry of which is about how the HSUS is working to stop dog-fighters.

What struck me was the last line of the post:

“Please take two minutes to watch this video, which shows our work on the ground to put dogfighters behind bars.”

“… and their dogs in the ground,” I muttered to myself.

The third way … stop the fighters, save the dogs.

By: BADKarma

BADKarma — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:46:44 +0000

Just in case anyone is unclear on this concept: PETA and the H$U$ ARE EXACTLY THE SAME ENTITY.

They exchange board members and officers on a regular basis.

They fund the defense of animal “rights” terrorists with equal levels of self-righteous auto-back-patting.

They campaign with equal vigour to get custody of animals so they can kill them, whilst using their images to raise money for their “care and rehabilitation” (see: Michael Vick’s pit bulls).

The only difference between PETA and the H$U$ is that PETA has accepted its role as the H$U$’s stalking horse.

Why anyone who genuinely loves animals would listen to, or give a single dime to, ANY animal “rights” organization evades me entirely.