a different kind of argument in a NOLA op ed in april: Legislation that would make Louisiana the 38th, and therefore decisive vote, on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the federal Constitution, has added a little glitz to what is an otherwise mundane session in Baton Rouge. Supporters say it would be a historic moment for women in their long quest for equal treatment under the laws of the land. Opponents say it would threaten the constitutionality of state-passed abortion restrictions and actually take away some protections for women. The truth is that they are both wrong.… Read more »
from the ERA org web page Join us for ERA DAY on June 30! Activism! Education! Inspiration! Sunday, June 30, 2019 from 12pm – 5pm Calling all activists fighting for gender equality for a day focused on the Equal Rights Amendment! Join us at the New Jersey home of Alice Paul – the author of the Equal Rights Amendment – as we reclaim the day that the ERA failed to ratify to the U.S. Constitution and offer women and men equal legal protections in America. The Equal Right Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution… Read more »
the hill: Democrats hope some presidential candidates drop out — and run for Senate Democrats facing a steep uphill climb to win back the Senate want Beto O’Rourke to reconsider his long-shot bid for president and take another look at running for the Senate in Texas, especially if his White House bid fails to pick up momentum. They feel the same way about two other White House hopefuls who are polling at around 1 percent or lower: former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock. Political experts give O’Rourke, Bullock and Hickenlooper little chance of winning the White House… Read more »
NYTimes 6/6/19: Tariff Threats Aside, the Senate Is Where Action Goes to Die WASHINGTON — Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana reached into his seemingly bottomless well of folksy barbs on Tuesday and said, “There’s a reason that the American people think that members of Congress were born tired and raised lazy.” The next day, the Senate left for D-Day celebrations after a three-day workweek in which nothing passed. Three minor administration posts were filled on Wednesday, and the Senate mustered four votes on motions to end debate. Meantime, the logjam of unaddressed legislation piled higher. Seemingly by design, Senator Mitch McConnell… Read more »
No… we aren’t there yet. For those of you that have a beef with the horse racing industry… unless you’re a vegan… just think of the thousands of animals that die everyday so you and I can eat a steak, a hamburger, a pork chop, or kung foo chicken. If you’re upset over a handful of horses… I guess you don’t want your dogs to eat either. Horse racing isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. It employs thousands of people as vets, jockeys, trainers, hot walkers, stall muckers, track employees, bet takers, bartenders, waitresses, saddle makers… etc., etc. Not to… Read more »
Renee, my problem with human/animal relationships is when a totally innocent(=mentally pure) creature is coerced into a lovingly subservient relationship with a trusted human only to become table trash or worse.
renee, i’m not against horse racing, but even the trainers are worried about the current problems. for example this op ed in the NYTimes How to Save the American Racehorse A string of fatalities underlines the desperate need to change racing’s practices. By Gina Rarick Ms. Rarick is a racehorse trainer. March 27, 2019 MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France — There’s so much I could say about the crisis shaking horse racing in America, and as a racehorse trainer, I’ve been saying it for years. Racehorses in the United States break down, which means they are catastrophically injured and then euthanized, at… Read more »
from an old horsefund article “HORSE RACING — BREEDING BY THE NUMBERS” Over the last 6 decades (i.e. 1950-2009), in North America alone, the foal crop has quadrupled to massive proportions, particularly during the 1980’s which saw the number almost double from the previous decade. [2] The situation in NA is typical of the global picture where the quest for profit by the horse racing industry’s influential investors has led to over-production of physically weak Thoroughbreds built for speed rather than endurance. Currently only about 35% are sufficiently robust and healthy to start racing. Breeding Thoroughbreds became a greed riddled business… Read more »
patd… both those articles are excellent, IMO. Yes… some changes need to be made…. that is obvious. It’s the cries from people who claim to love animals and want racing ended and don’t mind saying so loudly and proudly while they’re chomping down on a Big Mac and wearing leather sandals that bother me. Or the PETA people… who don’t have a clue what the consequences would actually be for both horses and people if racing ended. That’s my last 2 cents on the subject… and yes… I did watch all 3 triple crown races and I will again… Read more »
We all know how much I love horse racing, but at the same time acknowledge that changes must be made. For the same reason that I don’t like caged pigs, lambs raised in a box, chickens stacked is crowded cages, puppy mills etc. I hate the greed that infects the industry. It is all cruelty.
So I will keep going to the races, while trying to help push for legislation that will protect all animals. They exist for our food, entertainment, and companions in one way or another and deserve to be protected.
Jamie, Cleveland has mounted police. One of their stables is/was next to one of our construction yards. We took advantage of their policy of sharing manure with citizens wishing to use it as fertilizer. We took it to the farm and placed it at my grandfather’s vegetable/flower garden wherever he directed. The horses would have been doubly proud if they realized what their output helped produce; but, that’s probably beyond their vegetative abilities.
Looks like a quiet day on the Trail. Worked at home so my day was taken up until 1500. Since then I have been working on my one year update of Buena Ventura YouTube video.
In celebration ov owning her for a year I paid for the documentation to keep her active in the US Coast Guard system.
From what I saw on the twitter world it sounds like Dean made the greedy old perverts look just as stupid as they are.
trump demands fake poll results – W.H. Leaker
Ms Leaker says the paranoid pussypincher is panicked by polls that show him to be losing MI, PA, and TX. TX. Think about it.
PS : you heard it first years ago from Xr, pundit errant, and occasionally erring, that in 2020 demographics will flip TX.
a different kind of argument in a NOLA op ed in april: Legislation that would make Louisiana the 38th, and therefore decisive vote, on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the federal Constitution, has added a little glitz to what is an otherwise mundane session in Baton Rouge. Supporters say it would be a historic moment for women in their long quest for equal treatment under the laws of the land. Opponents say it would threaten the constitutionality of state-passed abortion restrictions and actually take away some protections for women. The truth is that they are both wrong.… Read more »
from the ERA org web page Join us for ERA DAY on June 30! Activism! Education! Inspiration! Sunday, June 30, 2019 from 12pm – 5pm Calling all activists fighting for gender equality for a day focused on the Equal Rights Amendment! Join us at the New Jersey home of Alice Paul – the author of the Equal Rights Amendment – as we reclaim the day that the ERA failed to ratify to the U.S. Constitution and offer women and men equal legal protections in America. The Equal Right Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution… Read more »
the hill: Democrats hope some presidential candidates drop out — and run for Senate Democrats facing a steep uphill climb to win back the Senate want Beto O’Rourke to reconsider his long-shot bid for president and take another look at running for the Senate in Texas, especially if his White House bid fails to pick up momentum. They feel the same way about two other White House hopefuls who are polling at around 1 percent or lower: former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock. Political experts give O’Rourke, Bullock and Hickenlooper little chance of winning the White House… Read more »
and then there’s the “Equality Act” H.R.5 – Equality Act116th Congress (2019-2020) which passed the House and so far is buried in the Senate
Sponsor:
NYTimes 6/6/19: Tariff Threats Aside, the Senate Is Where Action Goes to Die WASHINGTON — Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana reached into his seemingly bottomless well of folksy barbs on Tuesday and said, “There’s a reason that the American people think that members of Congress were born tired and raised lazy.” The next day, the Senate left for D-Day celebrations after a three-day workweek in which nothing passed. Three minor administration posts were filled on Wednesday, and the Senate mustered four votes on motions to end debate. Meantime, the logjam of unaddressed legislation piled higher. Seemingly by design, Senator Mitch McConnell… Read more »
No… we aren’t there yet. For those of you that have a beef with the horse racing industry… unless you’re a vegan… just think of the thousands of animals that die everyday so you and I can eat a steak, a hamburger, a pork chop, or kung foo chicken. If you’re upset over a handful of horses… I guess you don’t want your dogs to eat either. Horse racing isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. It employs thousands of people as vets, jockeys, trainers, hot walkers, stall muckers, track employees, bet takers, bartenders, waitresses, saddle makers… etc., etc. Not to… Read more »
Renee, my problem with human/animal relationships is when a totally innocent(=mentally pure) creature is coerced into a lovingly subservient relationship with a trusted human only to become table trash or worse.
Pass the Fido, please.
barf
Flatus… sounds like you’re talking about pets… if so… I agree with you.
Race horses are not pets.
renee, i’m not against horse racing, but even the trainers are worried about the current problems. for example this op ed in the NYTimes How to Save the American Racehorse A string of fatalities underlines the desperate need to change racing’s practices. By Gina Rarick Ms. Rarick is a racehorse trainer. March 27, 2019 MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France — There’s so much I could say about the crisis shaking horse racing in America, and as a racehorse trainer, I’ve been saying it for years. Racehorses in the United States break down, which means they are catastrophically injured and then euthanized, at… Read more »
from an old horsefund article “HORSE RACING — BREEDING BY THE NUMBERS” Over the last 6 decades (i.e. 1950-2009), in North America alone, the foal crop has quadrupled to massive proportions, particularly during the 1980’s which saw the number almost double from the previous decade. [2] The situation in NA is typical of the global picture where the quest for profit by the horse racing industry’s influential investors has led to over-production of physically weak Thoroughbreds built for speed rather than endurance. Currently only about 35% are sufficiently robust and healthy to start racing. Breeding Thoroughbreds became a greed riddled business… Read more »
patd… both those articles are excellent, IMO. Yes… some changes need to be made…. that is obvious. It’s the cries from people who claim to love animals and want racing ended and don’t mind saying so loudly and proudly while they’re chomping down on a Big Mac and wearing leather sandals that bother me. Or the PETA people… who don’t have a clue what the consequences would actually be for both horses and people if racing ended. That’s my last 2 cents on the subject… and yes… I did watch all 3 triple crown races and I will again… Read more »
There’s dog racing, too. No greed there ?
We all know how much I love horse racing, but at the same time acknowledge that changes must be made. For the same reason that I don’t like caged pigs, lambs raised in a box, chickens stacked is crowded cages, puppy mills etc. I hate the greed that infects the industry. It is all cruelty.
So I will keep going to the races, while trying to help push for legislation that will protect all animals. They exist for our food, entertainment, and companions in one way or another and deserve to be protected.
Jamie, Cleveland has mounted police. One of their stables is/was next to one of our construction yards. We took advantage of their policy of sharing manure with citizens wishing to use it as fertilizer. We took it to the farm and placed it at my grandfather’s vegetable/flower garden wherever he directed. The horses would have been doubly proud if they realized what their output helped produce; but, that’s probably beyond their vegetative abilities.
Looks like a quiet day on the Trail. Worked at home so my day was taken up until 1500. Since then I have been working on my one year update of Buena Ventura YouTube video.
In celebration ov owning her for a year I paid for the documentation to keep her active in the US Coast Guard system.
From what I saw on the twitter world it sounds like Dean made the greedy old perverts look just as stupid as they are.
BB, Do they offer veterans’ discounts? Why not? Our incidence of rules violation is 43.7-pct less than the general population.*
Source: CS Forrester
trump demands fake poll results – W.H. Leaker
Ms Leaker says the paranoid pussypincher is panicked by polls that show him to be losing MI, PA, and TX. TX. Think about it.
PS : you heard it first years ago from Xr, pundit errant, and occasionally erring, that in 2020 demographics will flip TX.
justin bieber has challenged Tom Cruise to an MMA octagon fight.
We must be buried deep in the silly season.
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