Reviews of HSUS - NEGATIVE

The Humane Society of the United States is NOT about the animals, according to these reviews:

http://greatnonprofits.org/whitelabel/my-review/the-humane-society-of-the-united-states/28290

What I Saw at the Tea Party Convention

The attendees want politicians who will deliver on Obama's promise of clean and open government. [WSJ Opinion] FEBRUARY 13, 2010, 12:06 A.M. ET]

"If 2009 was the year of taking it to the streets, 2010 is the year of taking it to the polls.
With ordinary Americans setting out to reclaim the political process, it's likely to be a bumpy
ride for incumbents of both parties. I suspect the Founding Fathers would approve."
http://ow.ly/17o2z

An American Air Force nurse rubs the head of an unconscious Canadian soldier while whispering in his ear.

"As the Critical Care Air Transport Team Nurse in the picture, it is truly my honor to transport these brave men and women here in theater! This brave young man was sedated but arousing, I was telling him who I was, where he was, what injuries he had and where we were going. He calmed right down. He was our teams 70th critical care patient since being here in theater, truly I have been blessed many times over this deployment." --Major "Lucy" Lehker, February 15, 2010

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/

Love

 ¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. ⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 ⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 ¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.


--1 Corinthians 1-13

Sharing the Splendour and Travail

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
--Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (1928) (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992), 24-25.

Ray Stevens is STILL Goin' Strong!

Why Young Men Become Terrorists

C-SPAN Interview
Monday, January 18, 2010
Col. J.M. Venhaus, is the former U.S. Army Operations Chief of Targeting & Assessment – Afghanistan (2002-03) and is currently a Jennings Randolph Army Fellow at the U.S. Institute for Peace. He discusses why and how young men become violent or extremists and how al Qaeda recruits young people into their organization. 
Washington, DC : 44 min.

Connections

The Gutting of the Constitution Continues

The ability of Corporations to make unlimited political contributions is now reality. Clearly, the US Supreme Court is not always the friend of Individual Liberty.

The Democrat and Republican parties have prostituted themselves to the corporations, at our expense, before President Eisenhower’s stern warning to us in 1961, and increasingly since. Such a Ruling Elite has little interest in advocating and legislating for the American people in preference to their better-paying customers.

Corporate entities, treated under law as human beings, hold rights greater those of actual humans. I believe that many are guilty of a sort of economic treason, and we flesh-and-blood humans live in a form of economic servitude that has been growing for generations.

Federal debt has crippled the economic future of our grandchildren, and there is more to come. It is long past time for our servitude to the criminal Ruling Elite to end. Throughout its history, America’s willingness to help other nations, rooted in the Judeo-Christian belief that we are our brother’s keepers, has been legendary. Now, it's time to save ourselves.


© Ire-Rationale

A view from PBS of the decision to open the corporate-money floodgates.

And now, for something completely different...

Def Sec Gates says, "No more Fatigue Uniforms in the Pentagon."

I applaud this return to common sense, not to mention a certain professional decorum. Never having been to the Pentagon, let alone worked there, I can only say that seeing Officers and EM around town in other areas of the country, looking as though they belonged on a work detail policing the grounds rather than conducting official business, has never seemed appropriate.

Once the hole in Manhattan quit smoking--and it did take quite a while--it was enough already with the self-aggrandizing Rambo posturing (remember the troops in the airports with no ammunition in their M-16s, post-9/11?) and time to get back to running a Defense establishment. We know well that the Military are all that stand between us and the Commie/Islamist hordes, and it is to our guys and gals in uniform that we owe the opportunity to continue this Grand Experiment we call the USA. Nonetheless, the folks (and it's not that many of us anymore) who are paying the bills don't go to work in the same clothes in which we do yard chores and neither should the folks who are spending all those billions. If you are carrying a brief-case, instead of a rake or an M-16, then dress like you've got the key to the executive washroom, instead of like the guy who burns the contents of those barrels behind the latrine.

Another thing: lose the cartoonish colored ribbons, except perhaps on Dress/Ceremonial uniforms. This is the 21st Century--there are neither knights, barons, dukes nor other nobles who command a practiced obeisance as they make their way through the halls and across the parking lot. Only the guy at the next desk knows what the ribbons stand for, and I'd bet the civilian staff neither know nor care. The fruit salad says nothing about your ability to withstand the blandishments of defense contractors.

The Supreme Court Perverts the First Amendment

The campaign-finance decision puts democracy up for the highest bid.
"It’s a dangerous thing to be naive about money and politics, and this opinion, naive to its bones, is a very dangerous opinion. It sets up a structure that almost ensures the end of meaningful representation at a federal level, around any issue in which major corporate interests have a stake."
[from the Slate, Big Money Column]

Politicians Lie. Surprise! [In this case, Democrats]

Money, the Humane Society of the United States and lastly--the Animals

Just in case you've been wondering where Humane Society of the United States funds really go:

  http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/steve-dale-pet-world/

It's not much of a secret where the funds do _not_ go. For 2008:

 "HSUS gave only a little more than
  $450,000—that’s just half of one
  percent of its total budget—in
  grants to organizations providing
  hands-on care to dogs and cats."

  http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/h/4062-unpacking-the-hsus-gravy-train

 "HSUS is a multinational conglomerate
  with ten regional offices in the United
  States and a special Hollywood Office
  that promotes and monitors the media’s
  coverage of animal-rights issues.
  It includes a huge web of organizations,
  affiliates, and subsidiaries. Some are
  nonprofit, tax-exempt “charities,” while
  others are for-profit taxable corporations,
  which don’t have to divulge anything about
  their financial dealings."

  http://activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/o/136-humane-society-of-the-united-states

CLICK HERE to ask the IRS to audit all HSUS operations!

Why DO those Swiss have such a low crime rate?

Swiss Home / Land Defense  [YouTube video]

Have newspapers buried themselves...?

 "Newspapers need to launch a national campaign to remind people
  how vital they are — while there are still papers left to run the story.
  In the futurist nightmare “Fahrenheit 451,” firemen are enlisted to
  burn all books and periodicals. In our real future, we won’t need to
  call fire fighters to banish newspapers. The newspapers seem to
  be doing it for us."

Article here: Have newspapers buried themselves in banality?

"Yes, Sarah, there IS a Media conspiracy"

The GOP would like to ignore Palin, but they can't. Oddly enough, the Democrats seem to understand a little better how much of a threat she is.

 "So Sarah Palin is now in that category of politician
  whom reporters feel safe in attacking.

 "Some of this is definitely her own fault.... Hillary's
  campaign had the same problem, particularly after
  Iowa, [Hillary's] press handlers...openly treated
  the trail reporters like a swarm of venomous insects....
  Once the politician-reporter relationship reaches that
  level, that candidacy is going to be in serious trouble.

 "Obama’s press people, meanwhile, behaved like a
  team of well-trained Starbuck’s baristas: quiet,
  accommodating, nonconfrontational. Then again, the
  reporters mostly all worshipped [Obama], so they
  didn’t have any reason to behave otherwise. That part
  of the media-conspiracy narrative is definitely true.

 "I remember one particular trip when Obama came
  back to our part of the plane wearing jeans and a
  white button-down shirt and there was audible chirping
  from several female reporters. ...getting photographed
  with Obama was like a rite of passage.... Needless
  to say nothing like that went on in the Hillary press
  corps, or more especially in the McCain plane....

  -- Matt Taibbi

Read it all, here.

The Strategy for Bringing Down America

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/the_clowardpiven_strategy_of_e.html

Teachings of Islam

"Does Islam in reality teach the opposite of what we witness in the real world, and is it truly a religion of peace? Or, are we being duped by apologists of the faith?"
   http://sites.google.com/site/islamicscripturesunveiled/

The Checker Shadow Illusion

Squares "A" and "B" are the same shade of gray. Proof

Burt Rutan's 2009 Oshkosh Climate Change Presentation

"One aggressively selling a technical product, the merits of which depend on complex experimental data, is likely lying."

RUTAN 2009-08-05.ppt

Islam v Non-Islam

Relations with the Islamic world have a dangerous potential, possibly equalling that of any previous period in America's history. Below, a little food for thought...

"MUSLIM DEMOGRAPHICS":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

"THE END OF EUROPE":

1/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlkEYoKC-kA

2/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBc5V4Ph9n4

3/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKlXgRS9TZo

4/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJfXRPBpdiM

5/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXqpBGimPA

"MARK STEYN on MULTICULTURISM":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEGJb5W5ks

Nugent on "Social Responsibility"

Sometimes the best way to introduce a highly charged subject is to present a most highly charged advocate.

One of the most sincere, energetic, and involved spokesmen for the Second Amendment Right to keep and bear arms is Ted Nugent. The 60-year old "Motor City Madman" is not shy about his beliefs, and if you haven't been introduced to his style and his substance, you've missed a good show. Nugent was interviewed in 2007 by Evan Smith, during "Texas Monthly Talks", on KLRU Public TV in Austin,Texas.

1984: Then and Now

If you bought a book legally, and someone took it from your shelf without your permission, how would you feel? Victimized, perhaps? What if a government allowed that taking, or even required it? Wouldn't that be...Orwellian? Shades of 1984, in other words, in which government censors erased all traces of news reports embarrassing to the government.

Well, don't look now folks, but Amazon.com recently did some erasing of their own. They remotely deleted books from their customers' Kindles, without asking or even announcing their intentions. But wait, it gets better. What makes this case especially juicy are the titles which Amazon deleted: the aforementioned 1984, and Orwell's classic tale of the perversion of democracy, Animal Farm. Irony thick enough to cut with a knife, right?

Amazon claims they will not do such a thing again, but why should anyone have the power to do so in the first place?

If you'd like to read either of the books in question online (or download a copy to keep), you can do so. You can, for example, Google "1984 download" and find more than one source. Isn't the Internet wonderful?

Other links: Volokh, 1984, Animal Farm