Four People Face Federal Prison for Passing Out Leaflets and Chalking Slogans

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Saturday May 23, 2009 6:01 pm

Today four Northern California animal rights activists await Federal criminal trial for ghastly crimes including passing out leaflets, chalking slogans on pavement, and chanting. Oh, and using the internet to locate the indivduals they were protesting. Yes, the world’s only superpower can’t be bothered to defend us against banksters’ ursury or death from want of health care, but when it comes to leaflets, chalked slogans, and Google searches, they’re here for us. To shut us up.

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Holdover Bush Appointees Defy Obama, Support Japanese Whaling

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Friday January 30, 2009 5:04 pm

I can’t figure out if these Bushies are doing it for the usual bribes, or because they’re homicidally jealous of sentient beings.

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California Ballot Initiatives: Yes on 2

By: Jane Hamsher Sunday October 26, 2008 7:30 pm

Farm Animal Confinement. YES. This initiative requires that farm animals be penned in cages that allow them to lie down, stand up, fully extend their limbs, and turn around freely. In practice, it would affect only the egg industry, and it moves California very moderately in the direction of more humane treatment of farm animals. The factory farming industry is running the usual campaign claiming that it would put California farmers out of business entirely, but that dog just won’t hunt anymore.

Why Does Sarah Palin Hate God’s Creatures?

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Tuesday September 16, 2008 3:45 pm

When I was in Sunday School, the Book of Genesis we read there taught us all the living creatures on Earth were God’s creation. Though different Biblical translations and versions use different words, I’ve never heard of any version of Genesis that left out God’s role in creating all life on Earth; I’m confident even Sarah Palin’s atavistic, violence-loving Dominionist sect tells the Genesis story this way.

“I Am A Illiterate Who Has To Rely On My Wife”

By: Teddy Partridge Thursday July 17, 2008 2:14 pm

Not much to add here. The self-deprecating reference to attendance at the United States Naval Academy in the Coolidge Administration did not get the laugh Old Lord McCain expected — and probably gets from the BBQ Krew on the Double Talk Express.

Dennis Shulman and Daughter Julie: Fighting For Animal Rights

By: Jane Hamsher Sunday June 15, 2008 9:00 am

Scott Garrett (NJ-05) is a symbol of the moral decay of the Bush Administration, and his barbaric voting record on animal rights is almost unique in the northeast, a reflection of his own savage views. Fortunately, we have the antidote with us here today — Dennis Shulman, who wrote his postdoctoral psychoanalytic dissertation on the relationship between two of his blind patients and their guide dogs.

Please join him and his daughter Julie here with us in the comments.

You can donate to Dennis’s campaign here.

Apocalypse Cow: Bushies Give Hoof & Mouth (Lab) To Feedlot Country

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Sunday April 13, 2008 4:13 pm

The Department Of Homeland Security plans to bring the devastating hoof-and-mouth virus to America’s moo belt, making Kansas Sen Roberts and the DHS happy as a firebug at a pyre of burning livestock carcasses. What, them worry? They’re Bushies.

Enviro Shit-Talk That Isn’t About Hillary, Obama, Nader, or Ron Paul: Lurkers, Please Join Us (We Sent The Poo-Flingers To Bed Early)

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Saturday March 8, 2008 6:00 pm

Whatever flavor of candidate we prefer, we’re in the global ice cream parlor together. And we’re really bad guests – we’re killing the place. We know better, but we keep smashing the place up cause PR voices on the shiny screens tell us that’s fun and popular. After all, that’s what the Powerful People do, right?

Late Nite FDL: Katie — A Story Of Survival

By: Jane Hamsher Wednesday January 30, 2008 8:00 pm

Katie would like to thank everyone for their prayers, kind thoughts and support during her five years at Guantanamo Bay night at the pet hospital.

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