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"An Italian trade union has been criticized after deciding to an award a 'Hitler Prize' for people who distinguish themselves working with animals."

"Animal rights activist, 31 of her dogs found dead in garage."

"Cops said they believe 62-year-old Sandra Lertzman, of Moreland Hills, Ohio, committed suicide but aren’t sure how long she and the animals were dead inside a running vehicle before they were discovered."

If They Think We'll Ever Go Along They're Crazy

A "tell" is one of those observable signals someone makes when they're trying to deceive you. You know, shifty eyes, stuttering, not keeping track of the details of a lie they've told, that kind of thing. There's all kinds of tells. Here's one that gives the whole spirituality/religion game away:

A Chinese magician has sparked outrage from animal rights groups with a trick in which he gets goldfish to swim in sync, prompting China's state broadcaster to cancel an encore performance Thursday.

However, a separate regional broadcaster said magician Fu Yandong would perform the controversial trick again on Thursday night -- and reveal its secret so as to silence his critics.

Fu dazzled audiences two weeks ago with the trick and had planned a repeat performance Thursday on a Lunar New Year holiday show on China Central Television (CCTV).

A CCTV spokeswoman told AFP he would not perform on the show, declining to give further details.

Animal rights activists cried foul over the stunt, saying Fu had likely fed the fish magnets -- or implanted them in the fish -- so they could be dragged around their tank from underneath.

Remember what we said about not recollecting the details of a lie that's been told? O.K., explain this:

Why is it that when a self-proclaimed healer, shaman, psychic, mystic, or Man of God claims to do something miraculous, it's immediately accepted on face value, but let a self-proclaimed magician do something miraculous and everyone's immediately sure he's up to something?

Why are they fervent believers when faced with someone using one title, but then, with someone using another title, they become critical thinkers, when the scam is the same?

Either way they're being tricked - and they prove they know it! Their reaction to self-described "magic" is their tell:

These so-called believers are either as dumb as a box of hammers or they know better.

All we've got to do, now, is figure out how to get them to admit which one it is,...because - let's face it - with these clowns today, simple appeals to honesty sure don't work.

Fucking liars.

Arnold Vs. The Green Police: Moose And Squirrel

"So the environmentalists . . . are confused because they want to have renewable energy but then when it comes to the permitting process, creating that renewable energy and building the solar plants, they are then in the way. And they then talk about, 'You cannot go and destroy this squirrel.'

I say, 'What squirrel? I was out there, I didn't see a squirrel.'

They say, 'Well, there could be a squirrel coming very soon.'

So I say, 'But there's no squirrel there right now.'

'But you've got to protect things that could be there.'"

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, on the insanity of dealing with environmentalists - while he's working on their pet projects - which makes the whole enterprise insane, to him, me, and The Wall Street Journal.

Hippies, Mermaids, And Dolphins: CULLLLLLLT!!!

"The Cove unwittingly shines a light on what lies behind today’s cult of the dolphin: a discomfort with humanity itself and with the gains of modernity. Dolphins are the favoured beast of the animal rights lobby because they are presumed to be as intelligent as human beings, possibly even more intelligent says one contributor to the film. They are more spiritual, at peace and caring than we human beings (well, not hippy human beings, but the other kind, over there). As one of the many, many recent books on the wonders of ‘dolphin culture’ argues: ‘While we humans have devoted our creativity to the technological achievements possible when one has chosen thumb over flipper, they [dolphins] have devoted their vast intelligence to the realms of the heart: community, pleasure, play, touch.’

It is this that motivates the animal-rights people who made The Cove: an estrangement from humanity; a belief that we have corrupted ourselves and our souls and our capacity to deal with the ‘realms of the heart’ through our soulless modernisation of society. Like a crazy updated version of the mermaid myth, they see in dolphins the ‘lost ideals’ of the simple life they would like human beings still to be living. So the contrast in The Cove is not a terribly crude one between civilised white people and uncivilised yellow people, but rather is between feeling, emotionally intelligent dolphins (and their human champions) and overly-modern, too-speedy, light-flickering Japan. Dolphins play the role of the simple life; Japan is set up as the bad guy of modernity. The truth however is that those supposedly weird fishermen in Taiji do not stab and chop up dolphins for fun – they do it to make food, to make things, to make a living, to provide for their families. There is infinitely more humanity in their slaughter of the dolphins than there is in a film which depicts a species of animal as being superior to a nation of human beings."

-- Brendan O’Neill, disgusted at how far afield contemporary thinking can go - "They are more spiritual, at peace and caring than we" - he can't help but belch it up for Spiked!

Good Dog/Bad Actors

"They play dirty. They not only give misinformation but disinformation . . . . They won’t listen, and it infuriates me. I’m sure they love animals but they should find out the facts."

-- Betty White, throwing charges at the animal rights/terrorist group, PETA, that could be lodged against a whole bunch of "compassionate" people and groups these days, like they're all angling to be known as the Deceiver.

PETA: People Encouraging Terrorist Acts

Ashley Judd Is An Animal Rights Butt-Monkey

From Michele Malkin:

"You have no doubt read about the grisly botched abortion case in Florida where the intended murder victim was born alive, then left in a trash can to die. The details of the story involve senseless savagery. The mother’s lawsuit says the clinic staff knocked the 23-week-old baby 'off the recliner chair where she had given birth, onto the floor. The baby’s umbilical cord was not clamped, allowing her to bleed out. Gonzalez scooped the baby, placenta and afterbirth into a red plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.' The mother is horrified and deeply regrets the abortion; her lawyer said: 'She came face to face with a human being And that changed everything.'

You won’t see pro-choice extremist Ashley Judd appearing in ads condemning such barbarism and speaking up on behalf of women suffering post-abortion trauma. You will, however, see her in those new animal-rights ads condemning the “senseless savagery” of predator control in Alaska."

We will never understand the berserk liberal mind, or how they keep their heads from exploding from all of the cognitive dissonance.

Apparently, we can’t expect the berserker Judd to think about her priorities related to “senseless savagery”, after all

She’s real busy lately.