i'm still looking for a job. if anybody out there in the real world knows of any entry level. receptionist type jobs. i've enrolled in school. hopefully things will be looking up from here.

May 04

PETA Evil in disguise

Do You Know the Real PETA and Humane Society of the United States?

An Editorial by Alice Fix

You will not often see negative articles in our newsletters, but every now and again we are forced to make a stand, and to speak out about what we know is for the better good for all involved. This is one such instance. We can no longer stand back and watch to see what will happen. I think that it is past time to publicly expose the real agenda of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and their cohorts in crime, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and the animal rights agenda.

For many years we have all enjoyed the companionship of our dogs and other animals. We have been busy playing with them, taking care of them, finding fun things that we could do with them, and generally just having a great time with all the animals that live in our houses. While we have been enjoying the love and fun that our animals provide to us, there have been groups out there organizing on a grand scale trying to get our rights to own those animals taken away. Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Make no mistake about it. These people have organized on a large scale to infiltrate many major city councils and governments in the country to spread their propaganda. Their agenda is easily defined and simple. Their main objective is to take away your right to own animals. They do not want you to have the companionship of any animal, whether that is a dog, cat, horse, mouse, frog, fish or any other animal that you can think of. They are pooling their resources to get this accomplished, and have millions of dollars in their war chest for this effort.

This is a statement made by Ingrid Newkirkaot create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship – enjoyment at a distance.” — The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223.

It is interesting that Ms. Newkirk used the word “speciesist”. Allwords.com defines that word as follows:

1. The discrimination against, and exploitation of, animals by humans in the belief that humans are superior to all other species of animals and can therefore justify putting them to their own use.

One of the animal rights mantras is that all animals are created to be equal to all humans, and should have the same rights as humans.

Just in case it still isn’t clear to you what their agenda is, here are a few more quotes from Ingrid Newkirk:

“One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.”

— The Chicago Daily Herald, 3/1/90

“In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.” — Newsday, 2/21/88

Who is Ingrid Newkirk, and why should we care what she has to say about anything? In the 1970s, Newkirk worked for Montgomery County (Maryland), and then for the District of Columbia, as an animal protection officer and deputy sheriff, before becoming DC’s first female Poundmaster in 1978. She co-founded PETA in 1980 with established animalrights activist Alex Pacheco. (1) PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but in my opinion, there is nothing ethical in what they do.

Ms. Newkirk has very close ties with several groups identified by the FBI as known terrorists groups, such as Animal Liberation Front (ALF). The animal rights groups are very well organized, and when you check closely, you will see many of the same names sitting on the boards of these radical groups. They are intertwined and closely linked through their finances, and the work that they do.

PETA operates on an annual budget of $ 29,000,000. Most of this is from donations made by ordinary citizens that don’t know the real work of PETA. Many people think that they are out to save the lives of animals after seeing all of their ads on TV and in the newspapers. That is why millions are donated to them each year.

In Virginia, the home state of PETA, in 2004, PETA adopted out 361 animals, and euthanized 2,278, according to their records. (2) Those figures aren’t good. That means that they euthanized 86.3% of their animals and only adopted out 13.7%. These figures come directly from PETA’s Annual Report and from their 2004 Tax Return. It doesn’t seem like they used that $29 million for the betterment of the majority of the animals that they came in contact with. So where is the money going? It is being spent for publicity to raise more money for one thing. It is also being used for legislative purposes. They have placed key people in city governments all over the country to try to influence legislation to take your pet ownership rights away. And they are having a lot of success with it.

You need to understand the basic difference between the “animal welfare” groups and “animal rights” groups. Although the names might sound like they have the same objectives, there is a big difference. Animal welfare groups are working to see that all animals are treated humanely. Animal rights groups are working to see that all ownership of animals comes to an end.

As I said, PETA has close ties with many other organizations. One of those organizations is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). People donate millions to the HSUS each year, thinking that their money is going to save the lives of millions of animals. Nothing could be further from the truth. The HSUS does not own a single animal shelter anywhere in the country. Although many shelters have the words Humane Society in their names, they are not associated in any way with the HSUS. The HSUS does not sponsor any spay or neuter clinic anywhere in the country. They do donate a very small percent of the annual budget to a few local humane societies, around $2 million annually, which just happens to be less than the amount that they spend in travel each year. Their major money is sent on fund raising and legislative activity. In 2005 they spent $28 million for public mailings, $6 million in vegan education, $10 million in legislative campaigns and litigation. Their income for that year was close to $125 million.

The HSUS was founded in 1954 as an animal welfare organization. But in the early 1980’s, just about the same time as PETA was founded, they began to change to an animal rights organization. In the 1990’s the personnel began to change to better fit with their new purpose, and today many of the personnel at HSUS have ties to PETA, including the current President, Wayne Pacelle.

This is an interesting quote from Wayne Pacelle: “We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding ...One generation

and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.” - Animal People News (May 1, 1993) (3) When you

combine other statements that he has made, with the above statement, in my opinion the meaning of this statement is that if we could spay and neuter all animals, we could eliminate

pet ownership within one generation. “One generation and out” would mean to me that they are gone and are eliminated in only one generation.

Quietly sitting back and maybe not being aware, we are now allowing the HSUS to make presentations at our local schools, with the definite purpose to educate our children about how bad pet ownership is, to indoctrinate children to the thought that animals should be free and not kept as pets. They are doing this in the same way that they have infiltrated city councils and local governments all across the country, quietly and matter-of-factly.

“Shortly after taking office, Pacelle announced a merger with the Fund For Animals which have assets of over $20 million, and the Doris Day Animal League. The combined group estimated its 2005 budget at “over $95 million” and also announced the formation of a new “political organization,” which will “allow for a more substantial investment of resources in political and lobbying activities.” (4)

So that is where we find ourselves today. With the HSUS and PETA combined annual budgets of over $124 million for political and lobbying efforts to take away our rights to own animals. And that figure does not include the many splinter organizations that have been formed from these two major organizations. We are in an uphill battle now, and it will be the fight of our lives to keep our rights to own pets.

They are going at it from many different angles. One way is to get Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) passed. The banning of Pit-Bulls all over the country is a good example.

That has caught on like wildfires. The animal rights groups have said if they can just get one breed banned, then it will be easy to add others to it at a later date, until eventually all breeds are banned. Another way that they are going about it is to have a mandatory spay and neuter law in place. Just think about it, if all domestic animals are spayed and neutered, when they die, there will be no more domestic animals. Those same words have been said by Wayne Pacelle, the President of the HSUS. They have a very well thought out and planned agenda, and they are counting on the ignorance of the American people to get their agenda accomplished. Well guess what: Ignorance can be overcome by education. The American people may be ignorant about the facts, but they are not stupid. They can be educated. We were ignorant before 9-11, and look what effect that had. It caused all Americans to become educated and unite and fight to prevent that from happening again. The difference here is that we are being attacked from within our own country. We are under strong attack by the animal rights groups, and I hope that we don’t just stand by and allow it to happen.

The animal rights groups are publicly stating that we need to get laws passed so that they can close down all the puppy mills and commercial breeding facilities that have their animals living in inhumane conditions. Just about everyone would agree with the idea that animals should be treated humanely.

But that is just the vehicle that they are using to try to do away with all animal ownership, period. And that is not a statement that they are being all that public about.

You can become active in this fight by telling your friends and neighbors what is going on. You can be an instrument of education. You can also fight this kind of legislation when it is presented in your area. Go to the City Council meetings and make your voice heard. Write letters to the state and federal government officials to offer your services to be on any animal related committee. In short get the word out to any and all of your friends that own pets. Let them know what is going on. If enough people stop funding the animal rights organizations, we can put them out of business. There is not much that they can do without operating funds.

The next time you think about making a donation to any of these organizations, you had better think long and hard about whether you really want your money being spent to take away your rights.

PETA HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES FARM SANCTUARY FUND FOR ANIMALS DORIS DAY ANIMAL LEAGUE EARTH SAVE GREEN PEACE PHYSICIANS FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT (ALF) FRIENDS OF ANIMALS IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS

Right now the HSUS has started their “First Strike Campaign”. I find that an interesting choice of names. At visualthesaurus.com they define first strike as follows:

First strike: An attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective.

Most people think that attack is on inhumane treatment of animals. They still don’t know it is an attack to take your animals away from you. Last year over 10 million people donated money to the HSUS because of their massive spending on advertising. Most of those 10 million people had no idea what their money was actually going to support.

Better places to donate your money that will fight for your rights to own animals are listed below. These groups are working hard to protect your right to own animals, and to expose the true agenda to much of the animal legislation going on all over the country.

NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE—http://www.naiaonline.org/ SPORTSMEN'S AND ANIMAL OWNERS' VOTING ALLIANCE—http://saova.org/

AMERICAN DOG OWNERS ASSOCIATION—http://www.adoa.org/index.cfm U.S. SPORTSMEN’S ALLIANCE—http://www.ussportsmen.org/

You can either make your donations work for you or against you. That decision is yours to make.

Footnotes for Reference:

1) http://www.activistcash.com/biography.cfm/bid/456

2) www,nokillnow.comPetaDVACreporting.pdf

3) http://www.animalscam.com/quotes.cfm

4) http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/136

This article appeared in the March, 2007 issue (Volume V Issue 2) of the Rocky Mountain Wrinkle, the newsletter of the Centennial Chinese Shar-Pei Club, Inc. Any reference to this article must give full credit to Rocky Mountain Wrinkle, and the Centennial Chinese Shar-Pei Club, Inc. www.centennialsharpeiclub.org

this is just a note to send support out for my internet friend, that i have never met. but would be proud to if i ever given the opportunity. crystal, at
http://boobsinjuriesanddrpepper.blogspot.com
she will make you laugh, sometimes cry. but i wish i could grow up to be just like her, when i grow up! glad your home crystal, and get well soon!

i finally found a part-time job. i work for a few hours at a dry cleaners in the mornings. on the side, i groom dogs. petsit when i find a petsitting job. and doing the regular old thing. trying to survive.

this is a request for help.

Azawakh Breeder's home burns down

David Moore, an Azawakh breeder in Toccoa, GA just lost his home and 9 of his dogs to fire. I don't know alot of the details, but he is currently living on his property in a one man tent, and is trying to care for the dogs that survived, including a bitch due to whelp soon.

He only lives 30 min from me, though I've not met him before. I've heard alot of nice things about him, and some of you may remember that he is the breeder that Becky (GoGreyhound) has often talked about, wanting to get an Azawakh pup from him.

I want to help, and I think we as a community are in a good place to arrange help with the specialty coming up soon. I will be manning the catalog table and will also be camping on the grounds. I will collect anything that people would be willing to donate for him and will personally deliver it all to his home on Saturday the 27th.

I hope that we can get a pretty good sized delivery together to help out this poor fellow dog lover in need.
Who's with me??

Here is an email with more information about David's tragedy which includes his shipping information should anyone wish to send something to him directly:

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 4:12 PM
Subject: Update on David Moore's situation PLEASE FORWARD!!

The following is from Alison Tyler, contact info for David's mom can be given privately, just let me know. For those that do not know, David lives in Taccoa Georgia and his house burned down last week taking 9 of his aged hounds with it. The situation is dire.
Mary Beth

SPEICAL NOTE FOR SATURDAY October 13th

Anyone who can go on Saturday and help with fencing or has fencing we can use, please let me know.
Ali
Atyler1462@aol.com

Hi all,

I was both prepared and not prepared for what I saw. The old part of the house is completely gone. Chimney and a few of the corner supports are about all that are left and some of the beams from the front room are charred black and mostly gone but not burnt through.
The addition is still somewhat intact as in 3 of 4 walls are still up and parts of the roof. The addition is where most of the dogs that were killed where unable to get out and so died. For me personally David's house represented peaceful fun times when he and I (and sometimes many of you) had lunch or dinner in the kitchen and ate his wonderful cooking. It was a place I loved and I couldn't move for a minute when I saw it as it is now.
The fencing is still bad. Dogs getting out everywhere. We need a group of local people to help with this. Saturday would be best for David and I think if a group of us focused and worked on it as a team it would be done in 3-4 hours. What needs to be done is holes repaired, Weak areas repaired and one area still needs to be fenced off. The areas that need fencing work are around and behind the new section where the dogs died. He simply can't bear to go over there so we have to do it for him. So please-any local folks can you help me on Saturday get this finished for him? I think it would bring him great peace of mind and also allow him to leave to get a shower, go to work, be off the property which he needs to be able to do. Bring your friends and neighbors-anyone.

Now onto David's single request. He has gotten money and gifts from people in sighthounds most of whom he does not know. He is deeply touched and has no way to thank them. For example while we were there a box came with dog blankets from a woman who must be on one of the lists who has a single greyhound and Saluki. So he asked if Ariane or Stephanie would put something on Saluki Friends and Sylvia if you would do the same on Saluki L and I will suck it up and post it to the Azawakh lists .
He asked that it say he has gotten the many donations of gift cards, money and dog items and he is deeply humbled and touched and grateful. Since he has no computer and is living in chaos he has no way to thank people personally so he has asked us, his friends, to do it for him.
I would also like to ask y'all to add to these emails that MORE IS NEEDED.
He is living in a one man tent with a card table next to it.
So here is what is needed:

Money
Gift cards to Wal Mart, Home Depot etc
Dog Food -he fed a the diet that is traditional to the Azawakh in the Sahel
of millet with raw meat, dairy etc but he has no way to cook millet and no
way to keep meat cold so he needs bags and bags of dog food.
Dog bedding
Dog beds
Dog bowls
Clothes for himself (jeans size is 34 x 30, shirt size large or extra large)
A computer
A boom box and some CDs
A camp stove or something to cook on
Non perishable food like peanut butter etc
Things to drink besides water like Gatorade
Bedding
Pans
Utensils
Coolers that have a long cooling life like the 5 day coolers
Tarps
Plywood and tools
Buckets
Extension leads
Straw, straw and more straw. Shavings aren't working-they are making the dogs itch
He has a bitch that is about to whelp so he needs stuff for a whelping box and puppy supplies
He needs housing- a motor home or trailer that someone could donate or lend.
You name it-there are a million things I have not mentioned.

Frank and I took a bunch of stuff up today including stuff Marlys bought for him. We also gave him $350.00 in home depot gift cards which we had gotten from my family as wedding gifts. We discussed it and agreed that the best thing we could do for him and for us was to re gift those to him. He is good at deflecting and saying he does not need anything. It is not true. If you are local, take it. If you are not local send it and if those of you posting his thanks on the lists could tell people that more is needed I would be grateful.
He is still getting mail and his mailing address for shipping is

3500 Williams Bridge Road - Toccoa, GA 30577 USA
email is davidmoore@azawakh.com

Website is http://www.azawakh.com/
Pay pal can also be used and locally in the USA checks can be sent.
Anyone who can go on Saturday and help with fencing or has fencing we can use, please let me know.

Ali
Atyler1462@aol.com

I haven't been able to reach David by phone yet, but I spoke briefly with Alison Tyler tonight...she was just leaving David after having spent the day helping him repair his fencing. She said he's in pretty bad shape, very shaken up and devastated by his loss. But he's hanging in there and trying to pull everything back together. The fire started when he was at work, and because his home was so rustic (see the photo below), there really wasn't much that could be done, so it was a total loss. He literally has nothing but the clothes he was wearing at the time. I'm very worried about him...he's been having a really bad time this year.



The horses and chickens are all apparently okay. The dogs he lost were most of his "foundation stock," the older dogs that he kept in a separate area because they sometimes find all the pups tiring. The only ones of the nine dogs killed that Alison could remember for sure are Kusaylah (his biggest male and a proven sire), Chenna, Iman and Showq. I'm afraid that my favorite female, Tittawen, might have been among the casualties as well, but I won't know for sure until I speak with David. I say this because Alison told me that he lost one of his pregnant females and her unborn litter, but she knows that Tiwul, who is due to whelp at any time, survived. The other females he was supposed to breed are Tittawen and Semteende, so one or both of them must have perished. This is a devastating loss to the breed's gene pool for such a rare breed.

I'm putting toegther a food and toiletries package for David and the dogs, and I'm going to send him some money by PayPal when I get my check on Wednesday...it's not much, but I want to try to do something...wish I lived closer to him so I could do more to help him out immediately. If anyone else is interested in sending David something by PayPal, please send me a PM and I'll give you the emaill address to send it to--he lost his computer in the fire, so it has to go to one of his relatives instead. Even if it's just $5 or $10, it will be a help to him during this difficult time.

For those of you who don't know him, here's a picture of David from happier times...he's really a great guy and has been so patient with and kind to me! If you can't help out any other way, please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. Thanks!

i absolutely hate looking for a new job. i just wish it was easier than it is, but so far, i'm not having much luck. since i got hurt at work, i am now looking for a receptionist type job. i cannot lift anything over 10 pounds. life is such a drag at times, i want to crawl into a hole and just hide. i know i will get past this, but i hope it is sooner, rather than later.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

looking for a job sucks. waiting to be re-approved for your unemployment, sucks even more. the depression that comes with losing your job, sometimes unbearable. 5 reason's to hang in there. priceless. can you tell i've been watching too much tv. i'm waiting to get a dr's appointment, that my ex-employer has to pay for. i hope they don't send me to the first moron's they sent me too. i'm going for full disability. since i can't bend over to work anymore. i'm having to look for a receptionist type of job. i went and got my clippers, that i had to have repaired. and i need to go work on a couple of poodles, as a thank you to the lady, and her husband that fixed my clippers. she's off to a grooming show in chicago. since i have had alot of time at home, i should work on the geneology of my family. but the sad thing is i get impatient, and end up giving up. i went and got medication from the indian clinic. anyway this is just a b and g session, just for me. hope everyone is having a great life.

the job i've been seriously screwed over by, fired me on monday. all i can say is go workman's comp lawsuit. and the employee discrimination suite. i think they should pay through the nose. they say they don't discriminate, but i know better. and i know of lots of other people they have discriminated against also. i know a bunch of their little skeletons in their closet. i hope they go down like the titantic, quickly in cold waters.

i'm going to try and do this, if it does not work, i will fix it tomorrow, happy memorial day to everyone, including the ones that have to work, like me.
http://family.webshots.com/slideshow/558080792qnMOon

i have done some things to try to help me. i finally got a transfer from where i was working, to a different store. the new manager has made my life a living hell. and my boss made me promises, that he never honored. my last day at the store i was working at is tomorrow. (yeah)

with my transfer they are cutting my hours down to 16 a week. i'm having to try to find some grooming jobs on the side, so i can pay my bills, and support myself, and this house i'm in. i'm going to apply at some veterinarians offices, and some grooming salons.

i had to hire a workman's comp attorney, due to the last injury i received at work.

i also had to file an eeoc report, due to the discrimination i have be subjected too.

and when they cut my hours, i had to file for unemployment.

i just hope i can get dot paid in full, and have her shipped here before the end of the month.

i have created this blog, mainly for myself. i created one kind of like a diary online. i visit here due to someone hooking me up with a link to crystal's blog. and she is one funny lady. i come and read her blog as soon as i find her updates in my email.
http://boobsinjuriesanddrpepper.blogspot.com
she rocks, and i hope to eventually be able to write blogs even just a little bit like her. i think she should write a book, she is funny entertaining, and i look up to her. i want to be just like her, just without the children part. having my dogs is quite enough for me. and if i had human kids, i would have to cook for them, and i'm to where i hate cooking, microwaving is my forte now. i flunked english in high school, and in college. so don't expect me to make much sense. i just come here to write jibberish. and hope i can come back and look at this and say, damn, what did i do that night! i can say one thing, i try not to judge others, because many have judged me. and really hurt me. and then it turned into depression, and then anger. i support our troops, where ever they may be. and i dread the next election for president, damn we just got through all the crap with the last elections, and all of their stupid commercials. if i never had to listen to that drivel again, i would be a happy camper. i'm almost to my 49th birthday, and that depresses me too. but i'm sure i will live through it. my sister loves to rub it in, quite alot. it's just me an angel, luna, river, dot, crackers, and digit. long may we reign!