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I See Things Like This And I Wonder Why
June 9th, 2007
I just finished watching this CNN video which talks of lion farms. These farms have raised lions and fed them in what looks to be open space but is really a farm.
People pay thousands of dollars to go to South Africa to bag a lion or two. I see that and my mind says, “Why?”
If they have that kind of money and food is available in the store they don’t need to shoot them to live, and I doubt the meat is eaten anyway. They just want to spend more money to mount the heads and show them off back home.
The lions are well-fed so they are not going after the hunters to eat them and yet the hunter just stands there with his high-powered rifle and shoots this animal that isn’t really wild. Just for the thrill of it.
I will never understand the “sport” of killing an animal that can’t shoot back.
The owner of the farm claims it’s to thin out the population, but if that’s the case, why is he breeding them in the first place?
If a wild animal came up to me or one of my loved ones intending to attack and maim or kill I would have no compunction in shooting it if I had a gun on me, but otherwise he has a right to live too.
We’ve encroached on their home grounds by building more and more. When my daughter’s house was still new I counted five deer leaving the woods behind her house and clopping across the street and up into the woods on the other side.
Now there are no woods behind her house and a new house is going up in an empty lot, forcing baby rabbits out of their homes to scavenge for food before they are old enough to know how.
South Africa is passing a law that would forbid farmed animals from being hunted for two years after they are grown. Big deal.
Saddle Up
June 9th, 2007
President Bush has often been referred to as a “cowboy”. Well that’s okay with me, I love country music and the guys in the big brimmed hats. Apparently the folks at Old Blue Web Designs love them old cowboys too.
For your enjoyment..
“My heroes have always been cowboys.”
One of Those How Could This Happen Stories
June 9th, 2007
We all know the overuse of medications at any time can lead to dire consequences. Anything taken orally would come to mind as the culprits which send most individuals to emercency rooms or worse. In this
case however, the reason for a young girls death comes as an absolute shock.
Teen Dies From Muscle Cream Overdose
The medical examiner announced on Thursday that the 17-year-old track star, Arielle Newman of Castleton Corners, N.Y., died from a toxic dose of sports cream, the Staten Island Advance reported.
Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s officer told the Advance that the Notre Dame Academy track star’s blood contained lethal amounts of methyl salicylate, the active ingredient found in muscle rubs such as BenGay and Icy Hot.
Borakove said the petite girl used the topical medication excessively, allowing the poisons to accumulate in her body over an undetermined amount of time.
How frightening is this? As one who has a few old joints which from time to time need a bit of assistance, a story like this makes one take a step back and question exactly what we are doing to our bodies.
I cannot imagine being the parents of this seventeen year old left with the knowledge that something purchased over the counter to alleviate pain could take her life at such a tender age. It is my understanding that the ingredients in these analgesic rubs is similiar to those in aspirin (which would make sense) but how many of us would think when we use a topical rub it could eventually kill us?
Prayers go out to this family and may Ms. Newman rest in peace.
How Today’s MSM Would Have Covered Omaha Beach Invasion
June 9th, 2007
