Saturday, June 21, 2014

CRUEL TO BE KIND

HAPPY SOLSTICE TO ONE AND ALL

I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU


YOU CAN TALK TO ME


MOTHER CAT


BLAST FROM THE DISTANT PAST


CLINTON-JUST TOO MUCH!

The country deserves better than being led, by the nose as it were, by the likes of Hillary Clinton.

 

I don't know if the defendant at the center of the child rape allegations was guilty or not. But I am reasonably sure that Hillary Clinton's savaging of the alleged child victim in defense of the accused was based on a turning of the political winds. Had this case happened two or three years earlier, Clinton would have probably savaged the defendant, because, well, that would have been the politically correct thing to do at that time. Later, after a series of allegations that were proven to be false, even manipulated by zealous social workers, people started to become understandably wary of such accusations.

Neither stance is correct. Both the accused and the accuser deserve their day in court. If the accuser is lying, then there's that. But if that is not the case, the accuser deserves sympathy, and even more than that, respect-especially if it's a child.

Whatever the case, the situation should be decided on the facts and the evidence, not the prevailing political or social mood at the time.

The really sad thing? Clinton didn't act that much differently than how most other politicians would have acted-though most of them would have hopefully displayed just a little more tact.

H/T Andrew Klaven 

BEAUTIFUL ABANDONED PLACES

Courtesy of The Fault In Our Stars


FUCK OFF

As cute as these kittens are, bear in mind that they are probably scared to death at the person taking the picture. Just look at them closely. Having said that, this is one of my all-time favorite pics.

 

POPPY THE CAT DEAD AT 24

Poor girl. But she probably had a better life than most of us. And there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that.

Think about this. They have to live in this fucking world we have made.

 

My sympathies to the family.

AND THE BLIND SHALL SEE

You don't have to be a dog or animal lover to love this story. But it might well turn you into one.

A dog has cataracts removed from his eyes, enabling to see his human famly for the first time in years. His reaction-his absolute joy and the obvious love he feels for them-is astounding.

To anybody who says animals have no feelings, no emotions, and can't feel love (hello religious freaks)-

I got a fucking dick you can bite!

NOTHING GOES WITH THE SUMMER SOLSTICE LIKE A CUTE TOMATO OR TWO

Courtesy of Amazing Tattoos



ADIOS MOTHERFUCKER

Courtesy of The Lush Life

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HEY! YOU'RE TALKIN' TA FUCKIN' ME!

Whad'ya think a THAT? TOUGH GUY!!

Monday, June 2, 2014

TOBACCO-A FAMILY TRADITION

 

 Human Rights Watch has now invaded Kentucky and declared war on tobacco growers in general, by recommending-based on this report- that the federal government step in and prohibit the use of child and teenage labor in the tobacco growing industry-even on family farms, where growers children have traditionally worked as a way of learning the business many of them will eventually inherit.  

Granted, there have been instances of such things as "green tobacco sickness" and injuries in the course of working tobacco (the latter of which is true about just about any work involving teens, children, or adults) and there are also legitimate concerns about the use of undocumented immigrant labor, many of whom in some cases are (allegedly) children. 

But let's be plain. The main goal here is probably to dismantle the current tobacco industry, which by the time twenty or thirty years have passed will probably no longer exist as we know it today. What remains will probably be managed and controlled by giant agribusiness, which might well be the fate of all American and most international farming.

 If so, it would not be the first time this has happened regarding tobacco in Kentucky. It might however result in the same kind of chaos as The Black Patch Wars.

Of course, this ended only in part due to the violence, but also due to the fact that the ATC was found to be a monopoly, and thus illegal according to the Sherman Antitrust Act. The only way now to establish a monopoly, legally, would be to first dismantle the family farm system by making it wholly unprofitable and unpractical. 

A major step in accomplishing this objective might well be to forbid children of farmers from participation, and thereby from learning their families traditional craft which in some cases has been passed down through generations.