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Tagged: glenn beck dennis kucinich politics blue gal you tube video blogging 2008 elections
Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-06-27c/
Filed under: Politics, The Media — Kelly @ June 27, 2007 10:23 pm
“A dog loves you the way you are. Adopt one.”
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Tagged: animals animal rights animal welfare dog canine animal adoption advert advertisement psa george bush gw bush politics war on terra war on terror photo blogging flickr
Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-06-27b/
Filed under: Animals, Politics, Photo Blogging — Kelly @ June 27, 2007 8:25 pm
Even though the government coerced me into marrying you and all. *Shrug*
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Tagged: iris dement john prine you tube video anniversary
Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-06-27/
Filed under: Your Featherhead — Kelly @ June 27, 2007 2:02 pm
Reno starts on our new house today!
Oh, built-in 8-track deck…
…I hope they tear you out first!
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Tagged: your featherhead new digs retro flickr
Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-06-26/
Filed under: Your Featherhead — Kelly @ June 26, 2007 8:56 am
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Tagged: ron paul stephen colbert the colbert report the colbert bump troll baiting video
Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-06-24b/
Filed under: Politics, Fluffy Stuff — Kelly @ June 24, 2007 5:48 pm
Crossposted without commentary…
Note: For similar action alerts and commentary, please visit this site’s Katrina archive (which I’ve obviously expanded to include all large-scale disasters, both “natural” and man-made) or my AR blog, easyVegan.info (hint: start with the Natural Disasters category).
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Date: Jun 24, 2007 1:39 AM
Subject: Animals Unseen Collateral Damage
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Animals - War’s Unseen Collateral Damage
By Brenda Shoss, 6/24/07, www.KinshipCircle.org
Kinship Circle’s column runs in The Healthy Planet. Ms. Shoss is also a contributing writer for The Animals Voice, Satya Magazine, VegNews, and other publications. To reprint this column, please request author permission at info [at] kinshipcircle.org
LEFT PHOTO: 8/5/06, network.bestfriends.org/middleeast/news/6547.html
– BETA rescued this little kitten, Louli, from the war zone.
RIGHT PHOTO: 6/4/07, from BETA Team, listmaster [at] betabeirut.com — Car bombs and hand grenades went off in Beirut. The first bomb exploded very close to one of our cat shelters in Ashrafieh area…
War devastates. We grieve for soldiers lost and the involuntary destruction of civilian life. But headlines rarely publicize war’s other collateral damage.
Animals, crimeless and naive, dodge mortars and armored combat vehicles. Their lives explode in a flurry of desertion, starvation, injury and death.
A month into last summer’s Israeli-Hezbollah war, bombs rain over Beirut’s southern suburbs. Israel’s military hopes to defuse Hezbollah’s command post, so Lebanese officials can assert autonomy along the border. Meanwhile, Hezbollah launches rocket strikes inside Haifa and northern Israel.
Helena Hesayne, a Beirut born architect, has little patience for the politics behind battle. Her mission is clear: To rescue animals abandoned in Lebanon’s exodus of one million people. In late July 2006, Hesayne and three others from Beirut For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (BETA) navigate smoldering rubble in a small convertible. Israeli soldiers eye their car full of dog and cat food.
Hesayne displays BETA’s accreditation papers. She has no fear, only stark resolve to retrieve four cats and one puppy seen locked inside a pet shop. “These animals are banging against the glass door, trying to get out. They are without food and water. I don’t know how long,” Hesayne recounts.
The women persuade another storeowner to unlock the pet shop for them. They are without crates, so they ferry animals toward their car under a downpour of bombs. “The entire time, this tiny puppy just licks our faces. It is the most amazing thing,” Hesayne says.
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Tagged: fluffy stuff interactive blogging blog ratings
Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-06-22b/
Filed under: Fluffy Stuff, Interactive — Kelly @ June 22, 2007 11:46 pm
Kate Moss does not look like her photos, and celebrating her as a model only tells young girls they, too, can smoke and drink and still look airbrushed.
Thanks for the newsflash, Daily Mail. You’re what we on teh internets call a “concern troll.” Because, really, the problem isn’t that airbrushed photospreads sell women an image that’s impossible for even the models to live up to; rather, it’s that airbrushed photospreads sell women an image that’s impossible for even the models to live up to while acting like boozing, coked-up sluts.
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Tagged: kate moss models supermodels beauty feminism misogyny sexism body image concern trolls daily mail
Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-06-22/
Filed under: Feminism — Kelly @ June 22, 2007 12:21 pm
Not that I blame him, when said wiener looks this good.
Yes, our wiener dog sure is some kind of stud. Yes, I said “dog”. Now get your mind out of the gutter, ya perve.
Seriously, though, Shane has taken up penning poetry dedicated to our canines in his spare time. Which is totally awesome - I love critter lit! Doubly so when it’s dedicated to my very own furbabies.
So here’s Shane, worshiping Ralphie the wiener dog. More gratuitous wiener shots after the flip. (What? Throw enough “wiener-minus-the-dog” phrases in there, and the traffic on this post will, errr, “shoot” through the roof. Come for the porn, stay for the animal rights activism?)
He never sees a hole not to dig
He never stops his breakfast jig
His bark is loud, constant, and deep
He gives us so many memories to keep
His snout slightly grayed and covered in mud
His body, long and lean, a true canine stud
He loves to sleep , curl up and snore
Taking care of him is never a chore
He loves to take walks, and trot along
He’s great on a leash, never does wrong
Just say “Walk” and that tail wags
His nose to the ground, he never lags
He grunts, and snarls, to rule the home
He’s the king of where he roams
Sitting on the top of his sofa throne
Keeping all away from his treasure bone
Then at night, he runs on ahead
In the room, up the ramp, onto bed
He puts his head down for a dream
As quiet and content as he ever seems
He softly barks at dreamland prey
Never catching what he sees every day
We always smile at Ralphie at rest
Of all our dogs, he sleeps the best
- Shane Brady, May 31, 2007
We are the living graves of murdered beasts,
Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.
We never pause to wonder at our feasts,
If animals, like men, can possibly have rights.
We pray on Sundays that we may have light,
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread.
We’re sick of war, we do not want to fight -
The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread,
And yet - we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat,
Regardless of the suffering and the pain
we cause by doing so, if thus we treat
defenceless animals for sport or gain,
how can we hope in this world to attain,
the PEACE we say we are so anxious for.
We pray for it o’er hecatombs of slain,
to God, while outraging the moral law,
thus cruelty begets its offspring - WAR.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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Tagged: animals animal rights animal welfare poem Living Graves George Bernard Shaw meat dairy eggs cow bovine pig chicken vegan veganism vegetarian vegetarianism activism flickr peta peta2 ecard people for the ethical treatment of animals critter lit poetry
Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-06-16/
Filed under: Animals, Current Events, War on Terra — Kelly @ June 16, 2007 3:56 pm
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