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I thought Sandman was dead?

You're even THINKING about this? They're on the road this week... I think they have a good chance. They should have won the Ravens game and they were close to the Rams.

I think I am going to update the list a bit more tonight and then have Dames put in a paragraph like in the Movies folder to check that thread first and then post a seperate thread. Just because we end up pointing people there first.

Use the Things You Need On Your PC Thread.

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I've always found people who do that are really just trying to make themselves look either smarter or more cultured then they really are. Just my opinion.

Apparently you can't read that well. The point is that they represent themselves as supporting/being an affiliate of local humane societies while doing NOTHING to support those shelters and their transformation into PETA Lite.

Read the article. The rest of the article BACKS UP the opening DESCRIPTIVE paragraph.

Really? I mean, considering they've had that name from the start and everything. Nice cherry picking. The FULL article: Humane Society of the United States "[T]he Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not affiliated with, nor is it a parent organization for, local humane societies, animal shelters, or animal care and control agencies … The HSUS does not operate or have direct control over any animal shelter." — From a 2001 disclaimer issued by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) "The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration." — HSUS senior scholar Michael W. Fox "The Humane Society should be worried about protecting animals from cruelty. It’s not doing that. The place is all about power and money." — HSUS consultant and former HSUS Chief Investigator Robert Baker, in U.S. News & World Report (October 2, 1995) "I’m not an admirer of HSUS. They’ve always been primarily a direct-mail operation, and what’s known in animal rights circles as a credit-grabber." — HSUS co-founder Cleveland Amory "My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture." — HSUS grassroots coordinator John “J.P.” Goodwin "We’ve started picketing outside the homes of the [department store] executives … Those executives do not deserve a break. They do not deserve to go home and rest." — J.P. Goodwin describing his anti-fur strategy "HSUS really needs to be called to task for its triple sided hypocrisy. When HSUS addresses scientists they say they support animal research as necessary. When HSUS addresses the public they say it is evil but sometimes necessary. When HSUS addresses its members and other animal rights groups, they say it is evil and unnecessary." — Dr. Pat Cleveland of the University of California, San Diego Background What comes to mind when you hear the words “humane society”? Likely your local animal shelter that takes in stray, neglected, and abused cats and dogs, promotes their adoption to new homes, and runs spay/neuter programs so that fewer unwanted animals will end up mistreated or euthanized. That’s exactly what the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is banking on. This intentional misdirection has made HSUS the richest animal-rights organization on earth. HSUS has over $85 million in assets. It raises enough money to finance animal shelters in every single state, with money to spare. But it is not affiliated with any local “humane societies,” nor does it operate a single animal shelter. A True Multinational Corporation 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 divulge anything about their financial dealings. This unusually complex structure means that HSUS can hide expenses where the public would never think to look. Accordingly, HSUS’s true global net worth is extremely difficult to measure. Money routinely goes back and forth between HSUS affiliates and, short of a full-scale IRS audit, is impossible to track. One small example: HSUS buried $6.4 million in direct-mail costs in the 2000-2001 budget of something called the HSUS Wildlife Land Trust. This allowed HSUS to claim that it kept its fundraising costs deceptively low. Some HSUS affiliates appear to be environmental organizations -- like EarthKind (USA) and EarthKind (International) -- rather than animal groups. HSUS locates others outside the United States, allowing the group to avoid scrutiny. HSUS personnel control the board of the British-based World Society for the Protection of Animals, which sells animal-rights-related products and investment/executor services worldwide. HSUS controls the profits. But this isn’t always a foolproof arrangement. In January 1997, HSUS was ordered by an Ontario court to repay more than $1 million it removed from the bank accounts of two Canadian charities it started, the Humane Society of Canada and Humane Society International. The bigger HSUS picture includes all the incorporated organizations listed at the bottom of this article. From Animal Welfare to Animal Rights There is an enormous difference between animal “welfare” organizations, which work for the humane treatment of animals, and animal “rights” organizations, which work to completely end the use and ownership of animals. The former have been around for centuries; the latter emerged in the 1980s, with the rise of the radical animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The Humane Society of the United States began as an animal-welfare organization. Originally called the National Humane Society, it was established in 1954 as a splinter group of the American Humane Association (AHA). Its founders wanted a slightly more radical group -- the AHA did not oppose either sport hunting or the use of pound animals for biomedical research. It has benefited from the similarity of names with this more legitimate cousin ever since. HSUS has a distinctly religious feel, founded as a “ministry” for animals by Coleman Burke, then president of the American Bible Society; Cleveland Amory, an author who went on to found the Fund for Animals; and Helen Jones, who had earlier left the AHA. Presbyterian minister John A. Hoyt was president from 1970 to 1996. Paul G. Irwin, a Methodist minister, joined HSUS in 1975 and now serves as President and CEO. Both attended Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, NY. In 1980, HSUS officially began to change its focus from animal welfare to animal rights. A vote was taken at the national conference in San Francisco and it was formally resolved that the group would “pursue on all fronts … the clear articulation and establishment of the rights of all animals … within the full range of American life and culture.” In Animal Rights and Human Obligations, the published proceedings of this conference, HSUS stated unequivocally that “there is no rational basis for maintaining a moral distinction between the treatment of humans and other animals.” Then-president John Hoyt hinted in 1986 that the animal-rights movement might be a means to a larger end, telling Washingtonian magazine: “This new philosophy [animal rights] has served as a catalyst in the shaping of our own philosophies, policies, and goals.” John McArdle, the group’s Director of Laboratory Animal Welfare, frankly admitted in the same article that HSUS was “definitely shifting in the direction of animal rights faster than anyone would realize from our literature.” The group completed its animal-rights transformation during the 1990s, changing its personnel in the process. HSUS assimilated dozens of staffers from PETA and other animal-rights groups, even employing John “J.P.” Goodwin, a former Animal Liberation Front member and spokesman with a lengthy arrest record and a history of promoting arson to accomplish animal liberation. The change brought more money and media attention. Hoyt explained the shift in 1991, telling the National Journal, “PETA successfully stole the spotlight … Groups like ours that have plugged along with a larger staff, a larger constituency … have been ignored.” Hoyt agreed that PETA’s net effect within the animal-rights movement was to spur more moderate groups to take tougher stances in order to attract donations from the public. “Maybe.” Hoyt mused, “the time has come to say, ‘Since we haven’t been successful in getting half a loaf, let’s go for the whole thing.’” The current goals of this misnamed “Humane Society” have nothing to do with animal shelters. The group took aim at the traditional morning meal of bacon and eggs with a tasteless “Breakfast of Cruelty” campaign. HSUS even wants to put an end to lifesaving biomedical research: as early as 1988 the group’s mailings demanded that the U.S. government “eliminate altogether the use of animals as research subjects.” HSUS has never budged from this extreme position. Since its inception, the Humane Society of the Unites States has systematically tried to limit the choices of American consumers in dozens of areas. The organization is against any kind of dog breeding, conventional livestock and poultry farming, rodeos, circuses, horse racing, marine aquariums, and fur trapping. And that's just the beginning. Domestic Deception It takes millions of dollars to run campaigns against so many domestic targets, and HSUS consistently misleads Americans with its fundraising efforts by hinting that it’s a “humane society” in the more conventional sense of the term. For instance, a 2001 member recruitment mailing offered free t-shirts with cat and dog designs. The fundraising letter, signed by Paul Irwin, calls those on the HSUS mailing list “true pet lovers,” referring to unspecified work on behalf of “dogs, puppies, cats, kittens.” Ironically, HSUS is on the forefront of the political movement to legally redefine “pets” as “companion animals,” and their “owners” as merely “guardians.” Another recruitment mailing from that year includes “Thank You,” “Happy Birthday,” and “Get Well Soon” greeting cards featuring pets such as dogs, cats, and fish. The business reply envelope lists “7 Steps to a Happier Pet.” A 2003 recruitment mailing also includes those “Steps,” as well as free address labels with pastel pictures of dogs and cats. The fundraising letter signed by Irwin details cruelties done to those animals. Part of the organization’s agenda does show, albeit subtly -- it substitutes the animal-rights term “companion animals” for “pets” numerous times in the mailing. HSUS has even managed to get the U.S. government to help it raise funds (and its public profile). In 1995 the U.S. Postal Service mailed postcards to millions of homes for National Dog Bite Prevention Week. The mailer, which suggested ways dog owners could keep their pets from biting mail carriers, included the HSUS logo and address. “Our mission is to encourage adoption in your neighborhood and throughout the country,” wrote Paul Irwin in another fundraising appeal. (Remember: HSUS doesn’t operate a single animal shelter). “Even though local shelters are trying their best to save lives, they are simply overwhelmed.” That last sentence, at least, is true. But don’t count on the multi-million-dollar conglomerate HSUS to do anything about it. It didn’t in 1995, when the Washington (DC) Humane Society almost closed its animal shelter due to a budget shortfall. HSUS, which is also based in Washington, DC, ultimately withdrew an offer to build and operate a DC shelter, at its own expense, to serve as a national model. In exchange for running the shelter, HSUS wanted three to five acres of city land and tax-exempt status for all its real estate holdings in the District of Columbia. The DC government offered a long-term lease, but that wasn’t good enough. HSUS refused to proceed unless it would “own absolutely” the land. The district declined, and what was to become the only HSUS-funded animal shelter never materialized. HSUS doesn’t help local humane societies save dogs and cats, but it does fly in and out of communities, pouring in thousands of dollars to change their laws. “HSUS was the financial clout that rammed Initiative 713, the anti-trapping measure, down our throats,” reports Rich Landers of the Spokane (WA) Spokesman-Review. “I pleaded [with Wayne Pacelle, HSUS’s government affairs VP] at least four times for examples of HSUS commitment in Washington [state] other than introducing costly anti-hunting and anti-wildlife management initiatives. He had no immediate answer but promised to send me the list of good things HSUS does in this state. That was six months ago, and I presume Pacelle is still searching.” Like other national animal-rights groups, HSUS has learned that pouring huge sums of money into ballot initiative campaigns can give it results normal public relations and lobbying work never could. Along with other heavy hitters like the Fund for Animals and Farm Sanctuary, HSUS scored a big victory in Florida in 2002 when a ballot initiative passed that gave constitutional rights to pregnant pigs. Florida farmers were banned from using “gestation crates,” usually necessary to keep sows healthy during pregnancy and to prevent them from accidentally rolling over and crushing their newborn piglets. After this amendment passed, raising pigs became economically unsustainable for at least two farmers, who were forced to slaughter their animals rather than comply with the costly new constitutional requirements. Today, there are virtually no pork farmers left in Florida. Animal-rights leaders plan to extend their “pregnant pigs” win to other states, and in 2003 are organizing in California and New Jersey. HSUS has also started a four-year campaign in Iowa, misleadingly called “Care4Iowa,” whose stated goal is to promote the so-called “humane” methods of livestock production that universally result in greater costs for farmers and higher prices for consumers. And HSUS won’t stop at initiatives aimed at livestock farmers and trappers. At the 1996 HSUS annual meeting, Wayne Pacelle announced that the ballot initiative would be used for all manner of legislation in the future, including “companion animal issues and laboratory animal issues.” Pacelle, a vegan, has personally been involved in at least 22 such campaigns, 17 of which HSUS scored as victories. These operations, he says, “pay dividends and serve as a training ground for activists.” HSUS is also a part of the Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) coalition, a slick Washington-based PR campaign to end the “inappropriate” use of antibiotics in livestock animals. The coalition of mostly science-deprived environmental groups claims to worry deeply about antibiotic resistance in humans, without devoting any attention to the rampant overprescription of the drugs to humans. Why doesn’t HSUS want animals to receive disease-preventing antibiotics? Most likely because raising livestock without antibiotics is much more difficult and costly, and the resulting meat, eggs, and dairy are considerably more expensive. The KAW coalition’s goals would give many Americans an economic incentive to lean toward vegetarianism, and HSUS would, of course, not object. KAW is currently working to introduce a bill in Congress that would completely phase out the majority of vital antibiotic use in farm animals. School Activism 101 Despite an animal-rights agenda every bit as radical as PETA’s, the Humane Society of the United States has gained entry to countless segments of polite society. One of the more frightening consequences of this is the group’s relatively unfettered access to U.S. schools. Through its National Association for Humane and Environmental Education, as well as a series of animal-rights-oriented publications, HSUS spreads its four-legs-good message to schoolchildren as young as five. One package, titled People and Animals -- A Humane Education Guide, suggests films and books for teachers to present to their students. In these recommended teaching tools, sport hunters are called “selective exterminators” and “drunken slobs” who participate in a “blood sport” and a “war on wildlife” with “maniacal attitudes toward killing.” Another teachers’ guide contains anti-circus stories in which animals are repeatedly depicted as overworked and abused. At the same time, HSUS hypocritically complains that it is inappropriate for the federal government to distribute educational materials about the use of animals in medical research laboratories, complaining: “These materials inappropriately target young people, who do not possess the cognitive ability to make meaningful decisions regarding highly controversial and complex issues.”

Seattle can clinch playoff berth with: 1) SEA win + MIN loss or tie, OR 2) SEA win + GB loss or tie, OR 3) SEA win + DAL loss + SEA has better strength of victory than DAL, OR 4) SEA tie + MIN loss, OR 5) SEA tie + GB loss Ugh.....

MADD is on there as well as various activist groups. Also there are different foundations etc.

Did you run Spybot or AdAware? Spybot should remove most of it.

At ActivistCash.com, we follow the money -- for you. This site, a part of the ConsumerFreedom.com network, is committed to providing detailed and up-to-date information on where anti-consumer organizations and activists get their money. We have analyzed over 400,000 pages of IRS documents to create this database, and will be adding more information every month. The organizations we track on this site are tax-exempt nonprofits. That means you have the right to know what they're up to -- and tax-exempt foundations are paying their bills. As you read through the site, you may be surprised at some of the connections between these groups and individuals, forming a web of anti-consumer activism -- promoting false science, scare campaigns, inflated public health causes, and sometimes violent anti-consumer "direct actions." But you may be even more shocked at where some of them get their cash: * People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is using a private foundation called the Foundation to Support Animal Protection to funnel as much as $432,000 to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), another animal rights group. PCRM in turn falsely promotes itself incorrectly as a medical organization. * Media mogul Ted Turner does more with his money than pay salaries for the Atlanta Braves. His own foundation lavishes over $40 million per year on anti-consumer activist groups including, those who advocate confrontation with police. * The Ben and Jerry's Foundation has given $10,000 to Mothers for Natural Law, a radical anti-food-technology group operated by disciples of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. * The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a Minnesota-based activist group, has accepted a $75,000 grant from the Foundation for Deep Ecology for -- and we quote -- "a campaign to end industrial agriculture." * The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) repeatedly attacks groups for taking industry funding to conduct research. But CSPI itself took $50,000 from the Helena Rubenstein Foundation to fund an attack campaign against the fat substitute Olestra. How do they get away with it? And how do they dupe foundations into handing over the loot? Sometimes the foundations aren't to blame. Grant requests may be sufficiently vague to convince donors to pay for politicized polemics under the guise of "research." But many times, the foundations are not what you would expect them to be. Though they carry names like "Ford," "Hewlett," or "Pew," in reality most of them are no longer controlled by the businesses and families that created them. Well-paid social engineershave since taken the reins. They have their own political agendas -- and often direct big bucks to their friends in the activist world. Sometimes foundation money flows through its initial recipients, and on to others. The Pew Charitable Trusts (money from the Sun Oil Company) and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation (Hewlett-Packard wealth) are just two of the financers of the Tides Foundation -- which in turn funds many of the organizations tracked on this site. There's another reason groups are able to take the money and run: Nobody's been watching them and providing this level of research. Until now.

Some more on PETA from ActivistCash.com: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals "If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course we’re going to be, as a movement, blowing things up and smashing windows … I think it’s a great way to bring about animal liberation … I think it would be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows ... Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it." — Bruce Friedrich, PETA’s vegan campaign coordinator, at the “Animal Rights 2001” conference "Serving a burger to your family today, knowing what we know, constitutes child abuse. You might as well give them weed killer. " — Toni Vernelli, then-coordinator of PETA’s European operations "Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it." — PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk, in the September 1989 issue of Vogue "… the Shining Path of activist groups." — CNN "Crossfire" host Tucker Carlson "Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works." — Ingrid Newkirk, in the April 8, 2002 issue of US News & World Report "It may have been ELF, but then, I sometimes get them confused with ALF, the Animal Liberation Front. And then there's Earth First! and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). There's a lot of cross-pollination between them, and some people here are probably members of two of those groups, or more." — Santa Cruz Police Lt. Joe Haebe, speculating about those responsible for a crime spree, in the San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, 2003 "We are complete press sluts." — Ingrid Newkirk, in The New Yorker, April 14, 2003 "I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front]." — Ingrid Newkirk, in the New York Daily News, December 7, 1997 "Our campaigns are always geared towards children and they always will be" — PETA vice president Dan Matthews, on the Fox News Network (December 19, 2003) Background People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been described as “by far the most successful radical organization in America.” The key word is radical. PETA seeks “total animal liberation,” according to its president and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk. That means no meat or dairy, of course; but it also means no aquariums, no circuses, no hunting or fishing, no fur or leather, and no medical research using animals. PETA is even opposed to the use of seeing-eye dogs. Amidst the dozens of animal rights organizations, PETA occupies the niche of -- in Newkirk’s own words -- “complete press sluts.” Endlessly seeking media exposure, PETA sends out dozens of press releases every week. In the past, PETA has handled the press for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a violent, underground group of fanatics who plant firebombs in restaurants, destroy butcher shops, and torch research labs. The FBI considers ALF among America’s most active and prolific terrorist groups, but PETA compares it to the Underground Railroad and the French Resistance. More than 20 years after its inception, PETA continues to hire convicted ALF militants and funds their legal defense. In at least one case, court records show that Ingrid Newkirk herself was involved in an ALF arson. PETA has even begun to adopt the tactics of an ALF offshoot known as SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty). This group is notorious for taking protests outside the boardroom and into the living room, attacking their targets at their homes. PETA began to do this in 2003 when its representatives targeted a fast-food restaurant company. Not content to write letters and picket the chain restaurant’s offices, PETA’s leaders met with the CEO’s pastor, and visited his country club and the manager of one of his favorite restaurants. PETA activists, one dressed in a chicken suit, even protested at the church of two executives, annoying worshipers by driving a truck with giant screens of slaughterhouse video back and forth along the street. In an effort to win more media exposure, PETA has adopted the counter-intuitive tactic of buying stock in restaurant and food companies that serve and sell meat. After buying just enough shares to qualify, PETA’s pattern is to introduce shareholder resolutions that would require animal-rights-oriented practices in the way animals are handled and slaughtered. PETA’s goal as a shareholder, of course, is not to turn a profit. Its resolutions, if passed, would increase the cost of doing business and lower the value of everyone’s investment. The group has claimed that it’s “not trying to remove meat from the menu.” But with a stated long-term goal of “total animal liberation,” pushing for animal-welfare changes is just a first step. PETA’s short-term goals are to economically cripple these companies, force them to increase the retail price of meat, and nudge consumers toward eating less of it. PETA collected more than $16 million in donations in 2002 alone, but few donors understand exactly where their money is going. During the past ten years, PETA has spent four times as much on criminals and their legal defense than it has on shelters, spay-neuter programs, and other efforts that actually help animals. From both a moral and a legal standpoint, there are far too many objectionable things about PETA to list here in detail. But the following “top ten list” is a good start: * PETA is not an animal welfare organization. PETA spends less than one percent of its multi-million dollar budget actually helping animals. The group euthanized (killed) more than 1,300 cats and dogs in 1999 alone, preferring to spend its money on cheap publicity stunts and criminal defense, rather than finding the animals suitable homes. * PETA assaults common decency. PETA’s leadership has compared animal farmers to serial killer (and cannibal) Jeffrey Dahmer. They proclaimed in a 2003 exhibit that chickens are as valuable as Jewish Holocaust victims. They announced with a 2001 billboard that a shark attack on a little boy was “revenge” against humans who had it coming anyway. They have branded parents who feed their kids meat and milk “child abusers.” In 2002 PETA organized a campaign to sabotage a popular Thanksgiving hotline, which provides free advice about cooking turkeys. The group has even contemplated (literally) dancing on the grave of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders. * PETA receives rock-bottom ratings from charity watchdogs. Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest nonpartisan evaluator of non-profit organizations, gives PETA a rating of one-star (“poor”). It says PETA “fails to meet industry standards and performs well below most charities in its cause.” PETA’s “Foundation to Support Animal Protection” -- now doing business as “The PETA Foundation” -- was one of just 23 organizations nationwide to receive zero stars (“exceptionally poor”). * PETA peddles its “animal liberation” food agenda through a medical front group that pretends to offer objective nutritional advice. A group misleadingly named the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has duped the press into believing that it is an association of conscientious doctors promoting good nutrition. In fact, it is a PETA front group. PCRM and PETA share money, offices, and staff. The American Medical Association calls PCRM a “pseudo-physicians group,” has demanded that PCRM stop its “inappropriate and unethical tactics used to manipulate public opinion,” and argues that PCRM has been “blatantly misleading Americans” and “concealing its true purpose as an animal ‘rights’ organization.” Taking a page out of PETA’s press book, PCRM has labeled U.S. school lunches “weapons of mass destruction” because they include meat and milk. PCRM’s president, a psychiatrist named Neal Barnard, recently duped Newsweek into covering his “study” (of seven people) supposedly demonstrating that a vegan diet helped prevent type-2 diabetes. In 2002, PCRM was cited in major newspapers more than 550 times. It was identified as an animal-rights organization in only a handful of those cases. * PETA exploits sick people. PETA famously suggested that drinking milk causes cancer, in an advertisement mocking then-NYC Mayor Rudy Guliani with the words “Got Prostate Cancer?” PETA has also erected a billboard reading: “Got Sick Kids? Drinking milk contributes to colic, ear infections, allergies, diabetes, obesity, and many other illnesses.” In 2003 the group held a demonstration in front of a Toronto-area hospital that was under a SARS-related quarantine, spuriously alleging that animal husbandry has something to do with the epidemic’s spread. Upon hearing that Charlton Heston had fallen ill with Alzheimer’s Disease, Ingrid Newkirk suggested that PETA would “toy with the idea that both Alzheimer’s and CJD [Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease] are related to meat consumption.” According to a profile in The New Yorker, she considered “renting billboards that would display a large picture of a gaunt Charlton Heston foaming at the mouth.” * PETA propagandizes children. PETA’s website for kids puts a skull and crossbones next to the logo of Disney’s Animal Kingdom and tells the horror story of a fast food restaurant employee who “had taken a patty into the potty with her, then returned and said she had peed on it.” It hands out trading cards to kids that allege drinking milk will make them fat, pimply, flatulent, and phlegm-ridden. PETA also has a child-themed website, and a kiddie-oriented magazine, called GRRR! Kids Bite Back. The name is significant, as it is intended to prep children to identify with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which has long-used the phrase “bite back” in its promotional materials. In fact, as early as 1991, convicted ALF arsonist and PETA grantee Rodney Coronado was calling his own crime spree “Operation Bite Back.” PETA also sends “humane education lecturer” Gary Yourofsky into high schools -- and even middle schools -- to promote the “animal liberation” agenda. Yourofsky is a convicted ALF criminal who has said he would support burning down medical research labs even if humans were trapped in the flames. * PETA distorts religious teachings. Not only does PETA oppose the age-old Jewish tradition of Kosher slaughter, but the group’s leaders maintain that Jews have misinterpreted their own sacred texts on the subject. They also claim, ignoring mountains of scripture to the contrary, that Jesus was a vegetarian. PETA celebrated Easter in 2003 with a billboard depicting a pig, reading “he died for your sins.” PETA also insists (again, selectively ignoring contradictory evidence) that Muhammad “was not a meat-eater.” In his speeches to adolescents, Gary Yourofsky regularly compares himself to Gandhi and Jesus Christ. PETA’s in-school presentations include the application of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” to birds and turtles -- not people. * PETA opposes life-saving medical research. PETA has repeatedly attacked groups like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, for conducting animal testing to find cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. When asked if she would oppose an experiment on five thousand rats if it would result in a cure for AIDS, Newkirk responded: “Would you be opposed to experiments on your daughter if you knew it would save fifty million people?” In addition to opposing any and all medical research that uses animals, PETA also insults medical professionals by arguing, with a straight face, that animal testing is a counterproductive means of finding cures for human diseases. * PETA devalues human life. PETA’s efforts to treasure every mosquito and cockroach invariably lead them to hate human beings for using bug spray and RAID. Ingrid Newkirk argues that as human beings, “we’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.” For more on how PETA devalues human life, click on “Motivation.” * PETA openly supports violence and terrorist activity. PETA has long-standing ties to militant groups like the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The FBI calls these criminal groups a “serious terrorist threat.” For specifics on how PETA supports violence, click on “Black Eye.” Black Eye People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals provides aid and comfort for the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). The two groups are responsible for more than 600 crimes since 1996, causing (by a very conservative FBI estimate) more than $43 million in damage. ALF’s “press office” brags that in 2002, the two groups committed “100 illegal direct actions” -- like blowing up SUVs, destroying the brakes on seafood delivery trucks, and planting firebombs in restaurants. The FBI calls ALF and ELF the nation’s “most serious domestic terrorism threat.” Bruce Friedrich, PETA’s “vegan campaign director” and third-in-command, didn’t seem to care when he addressed the Animal Rights 2001 convention in Virginia, telling a crowd of over 1,000 activists that “blowing stuff up and smashing windows” is “a great way to bring about animal liberation.” “It would be great,” he added, “if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.” PETA’s connections to ALF and ELF are indisputable. “We did it, we did it. We gave $1,500 to the ELF for a specific program,” PETA’s Lisa Lange admitted on the Fox News Channel. PETA has offered no fewer than eight different explanations of what the “specific program” was, but law enforcement leaders have noted that since the Earth Liberation Front is a criminal enterprise, it has absolutely no legal “programs” of any kind. PETA also has given $2,000 to David Wilson, then a national ALF “spokesperson.” The group paid $27,000 for the legal defense of Roger Troen, who was arrested for taking part in an October 1986 burglary and arson at the University of Oregon. It gave $7,500 to Fran Stephanie Trutt, who tried to murder the president of a medical laboratory. It gave $5,000 to Josh Harper, who attacked Native Americans on a whale hunt by throwing smoke bombs, shooting flares, and spraying their faces with chemical fire extinguishers. All of these monies were paid out of tax-exempt funds, the same pot of money constantly enlarged by donations from an unsuspecting general public. Most ominously, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk was involved in the multi-million-dollar arson at Michigan State University that resulted in a 57-month prison term for Animal Liberation Front bomber Rodney Coronado. At Coronado’s sentencing hearing, U.S. Attorney Michael Dettmer said that PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk arranged ahead of time to have Coronado send her a pair of FedEx packages from Michigan -- one on the day before he burned the lab down, and the other shortly afterward. The first FedEx, according to the Sentencing Memorandum, was delivered to a woman named Maria Blanton, “a longtime PETA member who had agreed to accept the first Federal Express package from Coronado after being asked to do so by Ingrid Newkirk.” The FBI intercepted the second package, which had been sent to the same address. It contained documents that Coronado stole before lighting his firebombs, as well as “a videotape of the perpetrator of the MSU crime, disguised in a ski mask.” Since Coronado was convicted of the arson, we now know that he himself was that masked man. “Significantly,” wrote U.S. Attorney Dettmer, “Newkirk had arranged to have the package delivered to her days before the MSU arson occurred.” (emphasis in the original) A search warrant executed at Blanton’s home turned up evidence that PETA’s other co-founder, Alex Pacheco, had also been planning burglaries and break-ins along with Rodney Coronado. The feds seized “surveillance logs; code names for Coronado, Pacheco, and others; burglary tools; two-way radios; night vision goggles; [and] phony identification for Coronado and Pacheco.” Shortly after Coronado’s arrest, PETA gave $45,200 to his “support committee” and “loaned” $25,000 to his father (the loan was never repaid and PETA hasn’t complained). Now free from jail, with an expired parole, and with the benefit of an expired Statute of Limitations on his many earlier arsons (to which he readily confesses in his standard stump speech), Coronado stood before a crowd of hundreds of young people at American University in January 2003 and demonstrated how to turn a milk jug into a bomb. A few days later, ALF criminals tried to burn down a McDonald’s restaurant in Chico, California, using a firebomb that matched Coronado’s recipe. The following month, Ingrid Newkirk told ABC News that Rodney Coronado is “a fine young man.” Newkirk wrote a book called Free the Animals! The Untold Story of the U.S. Animal Liberation Front and Its Founder, ‘Valerie.’ In it she writes: “The ALF has, over the years, trusted People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to receive copies of the evidence of wrongdoing … I have also become somewhat used to jumping on a plane with copies of freshly purloined documents and hurriedly calling news conferences to discuss the ALF’s findings.” Indeed, PETA has held such press conferences just hours after ALF arsons and other break-ins. PETA has published a leaflet called “Animal Liberation Front: the Army of the Kind.” In another pamphlet, “Activism and the Law,” PETA openly offers advice on “burning a laboratory building.” “I will be the last person to condemn ALF,” says Newkirk. And in another interview: “I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren’t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I’d light a match.” In ALF’s publication Bite Back (yes, this terrorist group has a newsletter), Newkirk has said: “You can’t have all politeness and patience, all potlucks and epistles … Some people will never budge unless [they are] pushed to budge.” Perhaps Newkirk’s most telling comment, though, came in a 2002 U.S. News & World Report feature. “Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective,” she admitted. “We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.” Motivation According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, human beings are just another animal species, no more special or important than a snail darter or dairy cow. The group believes, as one commentator put it, that “animal trainers, hunters, fishermen, cattlemen, grocers, and indeed all non-vegetarians are the moral equivalent of cannibals, slave-owners, and death-camp guards.” Newkirk insists that the world would be a better place without people: “Humans have grown like a cancer. We’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.” While valuing livestock over people may be an indefensible argument, it’s typical of PETA’s overall strategy: to stake out extreme, ridiculous, offensive, and often laughable positions, in order to constantly redefine the edge of what’s considered “acceptable” philosophy and protest activity. Ten years ago, throwing fake blood on a fur coat, agitating for vegan cafeteria food, or objecting to Biology-class dissection were unusual behaviors. Today, these are commonplace -- the radical line is now defined by firebombs, grand theft, stalking of scientists, and bloody physical assaults. For this, PETA deserves much of the blame; its habit of upping the ante of bad taste and shock value has redefined misanthropy and bad taste. For instance, when PETA learned that the photographs of Holocaust victims displayed in its roving exhibit -- entitled “The Holocaust on Your Plate” -- included Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel as a young man at the Buchenwald concentration camp, it shrugged. “Six million people died in concentration camps,” laments Ingrid Newkirk, “but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.” When terrorists struck on September 11, 2001, PETA issued a press release emphasizing the “animals left orphaned” and the dogs and cats in nearby buildings who would be “highly traumatized.” The press release berated Mayor Giuliani for his “poor record when it comes to animals” and urged him expend time, energy, and human resources “to set up a task force to locate and rescue animals” at Ground Zero. When Newkirk heard that Palestinian militants had strapped explosives to a donkey in the hopes of exploding it in a crowded Jerusalem street, she faxed a letter to Yasser Arafat, pleading with him to “leave the animals out of it.” When a grisly killing spree in Vancouver left 15 women dead, PETA tried to purchase full-page ads in local papers suggesting that this carnage was no worse than the killing of animals for food. When Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh decided to refrain from eating meat during his last meal, PETA’s Bruce Friedrich told reporters: “Mr. McVeigh’s decision to go vegetarian groups him with some of the world’s greatest visionaries, including Albert Schweitzer, Mohandas Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Albert Einstein.” And when images of American POWs brutalized by Saddam’s regime came back from the war zone -- reminding us of mankind’s capacity for barbarism -- PETA loudly fretted that the hens used by the army to detect chemical weapons “never enlisted” and that the dolphins locating deadly mines in the Persian Gulf “have not volunteered.” Having proclaimed the life of a roaster chicken to be as valuable as that of a person trapped inside a collapsing skyscraper or imprisoned in a death camp, a murder victim, a federal worker in Oklahoma City, or an innocent Israeli civilian, PETA continues to place greater value on a dolphin than on a ship packed with American soldiers. “I don't believe that people have the right to life,” Newkirk has said. “That’s a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.” In this sense, Timothy McVeigh and Osama bin Laden may be seen as heroes to PETA. By taking thousands of humans out of the food chain, they saved far more chickens and cows than they killed people.

Also.. Christopher Lee can rot in hell. Spokesperson - Christopher Lee - Actor appearing most recently in the "Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars" trilogies ; Spokesperson for PETA's campaigns against the American Heart Association and the British Heart Foundation

Then you didn't read the ARTICLE I posted which it will inform you that he attends PETA events and appears in their ads. Jesus Christ.

Did you try any of the inane games on that site?

The Seahawks don't have alternates (thank god). Just that one and this white one: Stop sniffing glue.

I listen to all the commentary tracks. So far the best ones I have heard are any of the Mel Brooks commentaries and also Mike Newell's from Donnie Brasco.

Pea green? What the fuck are you talking about?

HAMPTON, N.H. - Without revealing whether he'd been naughty or nice, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) climbed onto Santa's lap Sunday and revealed his holiday wish. He asked for, what else? "A better-than-expected finish in the New Hampshire primary." Lieberman, smiling, then told Santa he was a "good man." As well-wishers gathered at The Old Salt Eating and Drinking Place laughed, Lieberman added, "I don't know if that was totally presidential, but it seemed like the right thing to do." Will Lieberman get his wish? He is in single digits in state polls behind rivals Howard Dean (news - web sites), John Kerry (news - web sites) and Wesley Clark (news - web sites) and New Hampshire's presidential primary is on Jan. 27, a little more than a month away. ___ Did he or didn't he? Clark says Dean asked him to be Dean's pick for vice president. Dean's campaign manager says the subject "never came up," which prompted an angry response Sunday from Clark's campaign. Clark, in a taped appearance on ABC's "This Week," said Dean, now the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, made the offer in September, before the retired Army general had decided to run for president. Clark said it happened during a meeting with Dean "and frankly ... and I told him, I said, 'I'm not really interested in even talking about it,'" Clark said. Dean's campaign manager Joe Trippi denied an offer was made. "That's not what happened," said Trippi, also appearing on ABC. "We had a great relationship with him, talking about advice on the war and other things. ... But that never came up." In response, Clark's campaign suggested Trippi check the facts before commenting. "Howard Dean did in fact offer Wes Clark a place on the ticket in a one-on-one meeting that Trippi did not attend," spokesman Matt Bennett said. "Joe Trippi shouldn't comment on meetings he wasn't invited to." ___ A day after using colorful language to describe how he would respond to critics of his patriotism or military record, Clark's words have become part of an Internet fund-raising pitch. "I'll beat the s--- out of them," was his response to a questioner Saturday as he walked through the crowd after a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H. C-SPAN recorded the comment. Now, www.GeorgiaForWesleyClark.com is using the retired Army general's words to raise money. "When General Clark was asked how he would respond if anyone from the right-wing criticized his patriotism or military record, he responded in no uncertain terms: 'I'll beat the s--- out of them,'" says the appeal on the group's Web site. "Do you agree it's time to beat the — ahem — 'spit' out of the right wing? Well, show it by donating to our special 'Beat the Spit' fund-raiser! Every dollar raised will be categorized as a 'Beat the Spit' dollar, and will go to the 'Clark for President' campaign," the group says. Clark's campaign in Little Rock, Ark., says the grass-roots group is unaffiliated with Clark's presidential effort. Jim Stringer, coordinator for Georgia for Wesley Clark, said: "Everybody's been so serious, we thought this was an opportunity to lighten up a little bit, while still on a serious topic, during the holiday season. People who see the humor in this might respond to a fund-raising campaign that's a little different." ___ Lieberman's campaign made sure to spread the word after the Connecticut senator picked up an endorsement from an unlikely source — President Bush (news - web sites), the man Lieberman wants to replace in the White House. The campaign sent e-mail around early Sunday alerting reporters to a brief Washington Post item on Bush's pro-Lieberman comments, which first appeared in The Australian, that country's national daily newspaper. "When U.S. President George W. Bush visited Canberra in October, he told his friend (Prime Minister) John Howard that the Democratic candidate who, if he won the primaries, would be his most formidable opponent in the 2004 presidential election was Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman," the newspaper reported Thursday. "What a fantastic irony it would be if the capture of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) this week led to the derailing of former Vermont governor Howard Dean's anti-war candidacy and Bush had to face the formidable Lieberman in November." ___ CONCORD, N.H. — Dean staffers said Sunday he is going national with Doctors for Dean, which had previously been just a New Hampshire group. A new Web link will allow doctors across the country to sign up. Dean told members of the group that studies indicate 50 to 60 percent of Medicare dollars are spent in the last six months of life, but some of that spending may not be in the patients' best interest. "A lot of this happens because we are disconnected from our patients by an increasingly corporate atmosphere of medicine," he said. Doctors who don't know families and are worried about lawsuits are not going to say, "I think we've done everything we can" to a terminal patient or the patient's family, Dean said. "I don't advocate assisted suicide," he said. "I think what we really need very badly in this country is to restore the doctor-patient relationship so private decisions can remain private and out of the political realm."

Have you tried bus stations? Perhaps the local Farmer's Market? I hear hanging around an animal shelter nets you some great pussy as well.

Perhaps instead of Subway you should hit a nice Greek place.

The only thing that would make this story better would be if one of you are stricken with cancer but somehow your love overcomes it and you grow stronger in your love for each other. Of course at this point you need to do all this in a weeks time.