Long Time No Blog

I've done virtually no tweeting or blogging other than posting to lists and commenting on animal rights inspired actions since, well, my last post here. It was quite a year, and I'm glad so many others were able to keep cyberspace informed about the animal rights industry.

Thanks to all the California Assemblymembers who voted NO or abstained from voting on CA SB 250 on the last day of August 2010. (see video of the last 30 min or so)

Senator Dave Cox is gone ~ we miss you, Dave... ~ please God, bring someone at least as good to take over his old District 1.

Bits and pieces...

• November is coming. VOTE THEM ALL OUT. If they bought into or were paid by the AR community, California doesn't need 'em. Do your research, call friends, educate 'em and VOTE.
  

• My favorite site for documentation on H$U$ and the AR industry.

• Last year PeTA killed 97.3% of all animals in their shelter and found homes for EIGHT.

http://www.cfodconline.org/legislation.html

Don't forget HSUS...

Remember to add a link to the H$U$ expose video in every one of your emails to friends, clubs, the Senators and Governor Schwarzenegger. Here are two of them:

http://www.vidoosh.tv/play.php?vid=4360

http://is.gd/H7wz

Pondering Puppy Mills and H$U$

I was going to post this series of short notes on Twitter, but think I'll put them here instead. First, though, two bills are currently scheduled for an Assembly Floor vote tomorrow:

AB 241 - Nava - Dogs and cats: breeding for sale
AB 1437 - Huffman
- Shelled eggs: sale for human consumption: compliance with animal care standards

Call and fax your Assembly Member tonight and ask them to vote NO on both of these bad bills.

The following thoughts are posted as I think about the implications of H$U$' actions last week. Wayne P's animal radicals tried to stop information from zooming along the Internet. Didn't work. Only made us angry - and for a lot of us, ready to take more action to stop the AR agenda. Here we go; open minds, please. Our previous thoughts and actions / inactions got us where we are today, all of us. If things are to change, the change must start within us.

No, that's not a political statement. Just the truth.

/rant_thoughts

• H$U$ has enough attorneys to kill Twitter accounts, remove ground breaking news reports from Google, and delete videos from YouTube. We learned that this week.
  

• H$U$ has enough money to bring and endorse almost 200 animal bills across these 50 states this year - including about ten (so far) in California.
  

• H$U$ says laying hens are better off in groups of thousands, with attendant threats of cannibalism and disease, than in smaller cages where they're safer and happier (proven because they lay more eggs!).
  

• H$U$ says a puppy mill has over 75, 50, 30, 20 or 11 breeding dogs. Yep, in Texas they're facing potential laws calling anyone with 11 intact bitches a commercial kennel - which H$U$ and PeTA say is a puppy mill. But... what is a puppy mill, anyway? Really? Are numbers the sole determining factor?
  

• H$U$ told the California Assembly Appropriations Committee last week that VP Joe Biden bought his pup from a puppy mill. 'A horrible place with 5 citations!' No time was left in committee to tell the FULL story: that all charges were dismissed (see previous posts for details).

This was a USDA kennel licensed for over 250 dogs but handling just 91 dogs onsite. Imported from Europe and worth $5,000. to $10,000. each. There are two heated indoor swimming pools for the dogs on the property. Um.... I'm thinking this is not a puppy mill.

• Another view on puppy mills - please just read, think & listen to this person's heart even if you disagree
  

If we let H$U$, PeTA and other ARs define who gets to breed dogs, cats, poultry, swine, horses, cattle, sheep... will we still live in America?

If we continue to let H$U$, PeTA and local ARs make animal control law, how long until ALL breeders and pet owners are scofflaws?

If we let H$U$ and other animal radicals dictate how critters are cared for ... how long before no one is 'good enough' to own a pet? Or a cow? Or a chicken?

/end rant_thoughts

CA SB 250 - Suspended!

Woo! I'll post details later but here are the bare bones results:

0 (zero) supporters spoke up
5 (five) opponents spoke up

• Finances said there would be costs
• Opponents said there would be costs
• Sen. Runner confirmed with opponents that nowhere in the US has mandatory spay/neuter ever decreased shelter costs - it always gets worse.
• Sen. Runner also confirmed with Finance that the state will get unfunded mandate costs, more cats & dogs will be abandoned, so those mandate costs will increase.

Then Sen. Runner asked Finance: so, local government can ask the State to pay for the increased costs?
Finance: yes

SB 250 will be thoroughly vetted by the Committee and voted up or down late in the month.

Methinks it's dead, Jim.