I note an amazing correlation between the rise in prison population and the 'war on drugs'. I wonder what the graph would look like minus all drug-related sentences.
About half the prisons in California, land of three strikes and tough-on-crime, are private for-profit entities. Draw your own conclusions.
A damn good example of mechanical vs electronic is the controls for washing machines. Mechanical controls last until they break from fatigue in the metal or plastic, which usually takes 2 or 3 decades of heavy use. Electronic controls, given the damp environment of a washing machine, tend to go bad in just a few years regardless of use level.
Even if PETA doesn't directly participate in terrorist acts, they do support ALF and the like financially, and have done so consistently and for a long time, and it's not like they don't know what ALF uses the funds for. PETA has also said flat out that in their opinion ALF is not a terrorist group.
So I guess it depends where you draw the line on what qualifies as supporting terrorism. You don't have to be active yourself to cheer them on and help them behind the scenes.
More sensible might be a windmill on every dwelling's rooftop, thus using space that's already committed. (Same with solar.)
And "when health impacts are factored in" which could cover everything from the coal miner to the industry that makes the heavy equipment to folks downwind, IOW infinitely expandable to fill the desired level of cost.
The main way taxes on consumption are circumvented is through barter.
As to public records, they may be nominally public, but usually not free to view -- at the least you may have to pay for the clerk's time to retrieve them. I recall one locality that charged a $30 flat fee for access to the stacks. In my county, access to public records requires a $38/each fee or a $200/year subscription (otherwise you only get to see a PDF that's often too grainy to read).
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There's all sorts of documentation on the fact that PETA collects every pet they can lay hands on, not just the "unadoptables". This whole story came to light because they scammed someone into placing a nice pet, and that person then followed up...and discovered a whole bunch of nice pets being solicited for adoption then killed, rather than being placed. PETA actually went to pet owners and veterinarians and talked them into handing over their pets -- these weren't just strays and turn-ins.
What's driving them to kill these nice pets instead of rehome them? As someone above pointed out, PETA believes animals are better off dead than associating with man. They don't love animals, they hate people.
They're like the serial murderer who believes he's sending his victims "to a better place".
"Animal rights" isn't about rights for animals. It's about making sure humans have no rights over animals. If you define an animal as equal in rights to a person, then owning an animal is slavery, and the animal has the right to sue you in court (albeit represented by a human...selected by an AR interest). That makes owning an animal too dangerous from a legal standpoint, and THAT is the goal of all these attempts to achieve legal "personhood" for animals.
But for the benefit of animals? Not hardly.
Incidentally HSUS is just PETA in a nice suit. Same beliefs in a more socially-acceptable wrapper and armed with better lobbyists.
It has nothing to do with the bodies, or the fact that they disposed of them illegally. It has to do with the deaths that provided so many bodies to dispose of.
An average dog pound euthanizes around 10% of their intake. Explain why PETA euthanizes over 90% of theirs.
quantaman says: "Of all the things PETA is guilty of being callous towards animals is not one of them."
Really??
https://www.petakillsanimals.c...
This isn't something that was made up by their detractors. It's cold hard facts PETA left in a dumpster for all the world to see.
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But PETA gives a lot of money to outfits like ALF that *are* terrorist organizations. Starter kit:
Since it's less enjoyable, maybe that goads the male into leaving and finding another female, thus spreading his genes further than if he'd found a compatible female on the first attempt.
For that, one should look not in the water, but at the shift in diet to include a great deal more soy and flaxseed products (and flaxseed has 3x the level of phytoestrogens AND is more readily absorbed from the gut):
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
