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.

Tags: ALEC, Animal Enterprise Protection Act, Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act, Barack Obama, CCR, CLDC, Department of Justice, Green Is the New Red, HLS, Huntingdon Life Sciences, Josh Harper, Lauren Regan, Representative Bobby Scott, SHAC 7, Will Potter

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

Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iceland, Obama, Sea Shepherd Society, Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, State Department, Steve Irwin, whales, whaling

And here we all thought the Humane Society was a place to pick up Spot and Fluffy. Nope. Rick Berman’s “Center For Consumer Freedom” tells us the Humane Society’s kitten-huggers are really terorrists.

Over at Green Is The New Red, Will Porter tells how CCF bought a full page ad in the NYT and blew the ad on a risible “six degrees of separation” link between the Humane Society and some supposedly scary terruhists

Tags: astroturf, CCF, Center for Consumer Freedom, FDA, Green Is the New Red, Humane Society, lobbyist, mercury, PETA, Rick Berman, Tuna, Will Porter

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.