P.e.t.a.

[Zythryn]

Live
My favorite song of his is actually the elements
Unfortunately, ITunes doesn't have either, although they have a remake of some of his hits. Sung by other people, although they did a good job keeping true to the originals.

OK, back on topic.

Extremists seem to carry a lot of power. Is it because people flock to 'high rating news' and therefore we see so much of their antics in the news?

[InfiniteNow]

It's often better to look to those who founded the organization for it's true purpose, as opposed to those who made it known.


Did you say pita? Yummy!

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Buffy

There are extremists everywhere. I refuse however to abridge anyone's constitutionally guaranteed right to make an idiot of themselves in public.
Buffy

LOL
I always try to do it in a loud, authoritative voice -you get more points.
(Lost a lot of trivia nights that way )

There was a show on TV a little while ago or did I read it(?) about a wonderful autistic (?) compulsive(?) woman in the States who has designed humane killing lines for cattle.
They are actually given a "cuddle" before they get the chop.
They are kept away from the smell of any slaughtered animals.
The processing system she has designed is beautiful.
She was interviewed by my favorite psychiatrist, Marcus (?) Sacks
IF I had a vote I would have given her the Nobel Prize for something

I know if I had to kill my own animals I would be a vegetarian.
I love vegetarian food but have never really learnt to cook it well.
In the past I never had the time to fiddle, cut, slice, blend etc
In the 70's ideologically motivated vegetarians put everything in a pot and boiled merde (Fr.) out of it.
It was abominable.
Made you want to go out and shoot the next cow you saw.
(Has anyone heard the great C&W (?) song "Cows with Guns"? If not , do we have sound on hypography?)
There used to be a great Vegetarian Chinese Restaurant in Bondi Sydney.
It was fantastic, so inventive & delicious.
I would be happy to be a vegetarian if someone else would cook for me.

We really need rats etc to test for drugs, chemicals, organ swapping etc and even those that say "has not been tested on animals" are really lying because at sometime all cosmetic ingredients have to be tested. THEY- the particular company-may have not tested it on animals but someone else has at some point in time.
This "claim" annoys me.
It is such a con.

All testing is reviewed these days by ethics committees and animals have to be treated well

I try hard to be a Buddhist; but still kill snails, caterpillars and cockroaches.
The Possum is on the list if he eats any more of my parsley.!

The other night my VERY clever cat bought me a dead mouse.
I accepted the gift gracefully; but the bitch is still beating up my very old, gentle, neutered, woossy Tom because she KNOWS he made off with it.
Typical woman.

Last week I found a sick rat out the front of my house.
I couldn't kill it.
I thought "How much knowledge and help have you given the human race?" (drug, chemical and Psy. testing) and left it alone.
It made me sad.

The fanatics really don't help animal rights issues in the end.

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Last week I found a sick rat out the front of my house.
I couldn't kill it.
I thought "How much knowledge and help have you given the human race?" (drug, chemical and Psy. testing) and left it alone.
It made me sad.

The fanatics really don't help animal rights issues in the end.

You do realize, that with an attitude like that, you're a fanatic too, don't you?

The cow lady is named Temple Grandin. I remember her too.

BBC - Horizon - The woman who thinks like a cow

Although the squeeze machine seems a very strange idea, it is in fact based on sound scientific theory. We know that light pressure touch, say stroking of the skin, excites the sympathetic nervous system, which raises heart rate and raises respiration, whereas deep pressure touch actually lowers heart rate and lowers respiration. And what the squeeze machine is doing, is producing controlled deep pressure touch, which then has a significant relaxing effect.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

You do realize, that with an attitude like that, you're a fanatic too, don't you?

The cow lady is named Temple Grandin. I remember her too.

BBC - Horizon - The woman who thinks like a cow

Thanks for the link
What Nobel prize would you give her?

I am not a fanatic; just a woose.

I do object to false advertising such as "Not tested on Animals" which is such a crock of merde (Fr.).

How come you are up at 2.00 PM in Oz?

[InfiniteNow]

It's 11:00PM in Austin. Just finished my last query, wrote three new business cases, and finalized the summary our survey results... sent the data to the commications group for distribution and our dev team for implementation. Good times.

Nobel Prize for being a real human being who shares ideas and does not hoard them. For facing challenges and making the world better through gut instinct. Nobel Prize for inspiring relatively thoughtful peons like you and me.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

It's 11:00PM in Austin.

Nobel Prize for facing challenges and making the world better through gut instinct.

Sorry Ass Holes will not let me give you reputation for last post.

Instinct, Yes, what have we lost by becoming "sane" ? (????)

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Instinct, Yes, what have we lost by becoming "sane" ? (????)

We've lost nothing, friend. Simply, it has become more common for us to divert our attentional resources elsewhere.

Just because the object went behind the curtain does not mean it has disappeared. Object permanence spreads to the other lifeforms on the planet as well. It's up to each of us to realize that they still exist and have not (yet) disappeared.


Global stewards are not just flight attendants, they're individuals.